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We hit 800 downloads on our audio podcast on episode 0.17Featured Distro; Manjaro 17.1.11 Budgie Manjaro vs. Antergos vs. Arch London Spitfire first team to advance to the Grand Finals Non-sponsored video this week is Metro Exodus

Newsfeeds Winepak Could Make Windows Apps Easier https://buff.ly/2sTuw3O

Datamation: Top 10 Reasons Why Desktop Linux Failed https://buff.ly/2Lzainn

FOSSMint: 40 Linux Games That You Must Play in 2018https://www.fossmint.com/best-linux-games-of-2018/amp/

What We've Been Tweeting The Redemption of Sean Murray? The Return of Buffy?

Discovery Queue GoG Version Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Preorder) State of Mind NeuroVoider

Focus on [Politics and Decency] James Gunn Fired by Disney - Are his tweets defensible?

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Featured Distro; Antegros 18.7 Gnome Thanks for listening to our barely audible Northen Ontario Podcast PeerTube.social punching above its weight Overwatch Playoffs in full swing plus a broadcast deal with ESPN

Newsfeeds

Notes by Firefox (beta) DXVK Playable Games List Nvidia #GeForceNOW needs a Linux client Pillars of Eternity II is not Broken James Ohlen has been liberated from EA

Games We've Been Playiing FF XII Pillars of Eternity II (reboot)

Discovery Queue Warhammer 40,000 Gladius Arma 3 Linux version

Focus on [Gaming Overload] Obsessive--compulsive behaviour? Are Publishers feeding into this?

NOTE: RECORDING IN A REMOTE LOCATION IN NORTHERN ONTARIO. SOUND QUALITY IS SUBPAR.

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Featured Distro; Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 on Dell XPS 13 Cottage Country

Newsfeeds

Should You Declare Windependence (article) Best Selling Games of the Year (Steam) Is Pillars of Eternity II Broken? Amazon Prime Members to Get A Ton of Games (But No Linux)

Recommended New Releases

What We've Been Playing

Focus on [Best Games of the Half Year]

Video:

https://youtu.be/ML8mNdsgnXM Small Talk The World Celebrates Canada Day Newsfeeds World Cup Scores on your Desktop Gentoo was hacked Google Gaming? Linux Kicks Windows ass Firefox 61 Recommended New Releases Steam Sale and we've bought and what we've given away Discovery Queue Focus on [Linux System for Windows Gaming]

Small Talk Steam Sale BFF Giveaway Steam Region Locks our Gifts Fanatical.com to the rescue Newsfeeds Is the Atari VCS a scam? (Hint: Rhymes with mess) A New Star Trek TNG Sequel n the way? Recommended New Releases Turok Shroud of the Avatar Discovery Queue Summer Steam Sale Focus on [Windows Gaming]

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Back to Solus!

Newsfeeds

Overwatch League Standings Microsoft's Next Gen Console Plans EA Gamer Backlash? Courtney Hadwin Librem 5 Update

GAME GIVEAWAY FINALISTS

Our Random Number Generator Picked:

/u/LimpYam Shadow of Mordor / Stardew Valley

/u/socially_inept69 heroes of hammerwatch / risk of rain

u/umarkus_mun Moonlighter / Oxygen Not Included

/u/mustbesniping Rimworld / Super Fire Pro Wrestling

/u/uhead_scratchenista Surviving Mars / Divinity Original Sin 2

Five Reddit Followers - First Three To Confirm Via Twitter / Twitch / YouTube or Reddit win BOTH of the games selected!

Discovery Queue

Kogent Defender RECOG The First Wave Z Dawn

Focus on [Topic]

Best of #E3 2018

Best of... Disappointments

The sound quality is low this week. We recorded this while traveling and unfortunately it's not up to snuff. Apologies!

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Not @E3: Which consoles are the most 'open'

Newsfeeds

Microsoft buys Github & Twitter loses its $hit Steam is getting a revamp? Ubisoft Expects One Last Console Generation

Recommended New Releases

What's Happening on Steam Discovery Queue New Games

What We've Been Playing

Civilization VI Pillars of Eternity II Dark Souls Remastered

Focus on (Topic)

Why Steam Is Doing The Right Thing Let Freedom Fly High!

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The Overwatch League is legit (0:03:00)

Newsfeeds

Gnome Clarification (0:13:00)

Steam Survey Update (0:17:30)

What if Microsoft buys GitHub? (0:20:10)

Tweet Streams

Facebook commits to seeking minority directors. Why not minority shareholders? (0:28:10)

Recommendations & Releases

Games Workshop Sale (0:34:30)

Discovery Queue (0:36:34)

Overload released May 31, 2018 (0:36:34)

Cultist Simulator May 31, 2018 (0:49:10)

Topic of the Week

Steam Alternatives on Linux (0:51:15)

Itch.io (0:52:54)

GoG (0:56:20)

IsThereAnyDeal.com (0:57:40)

Fanatical.com (0:58:50)

Lutris as a game launcher (1:01:00)

Games as a game launcher (1:01:15)

Battle.Net (via Wine) (1:04:05)

Uplay (via Wine) (1:07:20)

Closing Comments (1:10:00)

Please follow us! We're adding a Discord server

We're going to the iTunes store with episode 0.11

Maybe kinda thinking of doing a Patreon. Welcome your thoughts.

Notes:

Chloe puts her head into it.

News:

Gnome may have raised some amount of money from some anonymous person for some unspecified reasons.

Apple kills Steam's Link

Essential PH-1 is Dead

GDPR is the law of the land - and Facebook and Google are prepared for battle.

Games:

Discovery Queue

Unforeseen Incidents Cendric The First Tree Invasion on Chestnut Ridge Star Tower

What We've Been Playing

Dark Souls Remastered (On Linux!) Pillars of Eternity II

Topic of the Week

Deep dive into Wine Gaming and Lutris

Notes:

Distro Hopping Gaming

News: Valve Releases Steam Link for Mobile - we test it. Paradox, Improved with Board Games

Firefox 60 Released with Password-Free Logins and Sponsored Stories

Google's Selfish Ledger

What We've Been Playing

Pillars of Eternity II Fail

Recommended New Releases

Shroud of the Avatar Ash of Gods Failed State

What We've Been Tweeting

Prey DLC? Racist Attacks on Lunduke

Topic of the Week:

Net Neutrality Is A Scam. Go Organic.