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Episode 44: Unity's Pricing & What It Means for Game Developers

October 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 13 mins

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In this episode, we discuss Unity's recent pricing and packaging updates, including the removal of the revenue limit for Unity Personal users, the introduction of runtime fees, and Unity Pro's new pricing structure. We explore the industry's shift toward shareholder focus and the importance of keeping game development tools like Unity as flexible learning and development aids, rather than becoming overly committed to any one engine.

Episode 42: LTT Drama and more

August 19th, 2023  |  1 hr 11 mins

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🔥 Join us as we dissect the gripping tale of Linuxs Media Group's controversy, ignited by a video from Gamer's Nexus. But wait, that's just the beginning!

Episode 39: Fedora's Skeleton Village

May 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 15 mins

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Does Redhat still believe in the Fedora project, we question the 4% let go from the company in cutbacks // Somebody tell Elon he'd be a real internet cool guy if he opensourced Tesla software updates // RPG Maker Unity asset finally luanches with suspicious comments // Valve is still crushing with good will from the Linux gaming community // 'About that linux support..' - Roblox // The AI game concept gets a new skeleton village // Don't worry, my monitor is still flickering on and off on Linux

Episode 38: Planning a game with AI and struggling with the ARC A770

April 23rd, 2023  |  1 hr 5 mins

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This episode was short prepped and spontaneous. It's been a little while since our last show and we've both had several life events holding us up from doing show prep. We didn't want to keep prolonging the recording of this episode so we decided to give it a shot recording with no prep.

Episode 37: ARC A770 Graphics Card - What Linux Gamers Need to Know!

March 12th, 2023  |  54 mins 38 secs

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In this episode Josh and I both test out our new ARC A770 GPU, While it's not easily compatible with Linux just yet, this card has some exciting potential because of it's performance and cost.

We dive into what Wayland support for Wine means for Linux gamers, Flathub to support purchases and donations, Fungus computing power, and much more.

Episode 33: Two Linux Nerds Discuss The Game Awards

December 11th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins

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The Game Awards went down with a few hitches; A guy sneaks on stage and shouts out Rabbi Clinton, Chat spams nonsense in an attempt to win a Steam Deck, and Elden Ring dodge rolled it's way to victory.

Episode 30: Retro Gaming, GPUs and Black Friday: Is it time to reinstate the CRT monitor?

November 15th, 2022  |  1 hr 7 mins

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Our first live episode in a little while, we're going to talk about Josh's retro gaming setup and how Bo plans to max out his credit card on Black Friday.

Episode 29: EVGA and 90s era survival horror

October 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

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This week we're talking the latest Nvidia news / progress on my game idea and how learning Unity is going / drawing inspiration from 90s Konami and Capcom

Episode 26: Nobara Project and The Stanley Parable

May 26th, 2022  |  1 hr 23 mins

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In this episode we give our final thoughts on Fedora 36, talk about some recent Linux news, and review The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe.

Episode 24: 700 Mile Fedora Install

May 1st, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins

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Josh drives down the east coast to visit me, we intended to install Fedora and review it but instead we played board games.