The Most Popular Linux Gaming Articles For May 2014

Codemasters Looking At Supporting Linux, GRID Autosport Possible - Views: 4,737
A Linux user sent a shot in the dark to the Codemasters team with decent results. It's a matter of when now and not if! So, Linux could see another AAA racer come our way in future.



Left 4 Dead 3 & Half-Life 3 Are Real According To The Creator Of Counter Strike - Views: 4,994
The original creator of Counter Strike Minh "Gooseman" Le spoke to "goRGNtv" on twitch and Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3 came up.



Epic Games Release New Information About Unreal Engine 4 & Linux Support - Views: 5,287
Epic Games will soon be champions of Linux gaming for sure. They have done a big blog post on Linux support in Unreal Engine 4.



Alienware State Their Steam Machine Won't Be Very Profitable - Views: 5,609
Alienware's general manager spoke to another site about his thoughts on Steam Machines and how he feels theirs will sell.



A Post-mortem On Porting Two Titles To Linux, One Year Of Porting - Views: 5,674
Leszek Godlewski has done a presentation on his work to port two bigger game titles to Linux and the slides are now up. Leszek is the man behind porting Deadfall Adventures and Painkiller Hell & Damnation to Linux.



Why The Porting Method Doesn't Matter For Linux Games - Views: 6,200
So, I've already talked at length about "bad ports" and why I thought the toolkit used to port games to Linux matters. Now I'm here again to talk about why it actually doesn't matter and why we need to accept that in the end.



Metro 2033 & Metro Last Light Getting Upgrades, Metro 2033 To Release On Linux - Views: 7,035
A big day for news today folks. Metro 2033 will get a Linux version in an upgraded form and Metro Last Light is also getting a big update.



Defender Of The GNU/LGPL Threatens Project Zomboid - Views: 7,058
Something I would like to highlight to you all today is the annoyance of licensing zealots that causes unneeded grief for people.



Civilization V Looks Rather Close To A Linux Version - Views: 7,261
Civilization V looks like it will gain a Linux version after-all with new information from the awesome SteamDB.



XCOM: Enemy Unknown Looks Like It's In Testing For Linux Right Now - Views: 7,434
XCOM: Enemy Unknown looks like it has entered testing for Linux thanks to some updates we spotted earlier.



AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark - Views: 7,651
I got an interesting email from Michael A. Marks the technical director for Aspyr Media who built his own steambox and ran some OpenGL tests with interesting results.



GOG.com In Need Of Linux Tech Specialist To Port Games - Views: 7,935
With GOG.com heading over to Linux later this year they are in need of someone technically minded with Linux who doesn't mind moving to Poland.



Steam Hardware Survey For April 2014, Linux Rises From The Ashes - Views: 8,008
Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.



XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Linux Officially Announced - Views: 8,790
FINALLY. XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Linux has been officially announced on Feral Interactive's official website. This is something we have been telling you about for quite some time now.



New Unreal Tournament In The Works, Could See A Native Linux Version - Views: 9,987
Some hot news today is that Epic Games is working on a next-gen Unreal Tournament and it's not out of the realm of possibility that it will see a Linux client since Unreal Engine 4.1+ now officially supports Linux.



New Unreal Tournament Announced, Linux Support Is A Go & Will Be Free - Views: 10,605
We speculated on it recently and it's pleasing to see that we were right. The new Unreal Tournament is real and it's coming to Linux.



Why We Shouldn't Accept Bad Linux Ports - Views: 13,556
Thanks to the recent fiasco of The Witcher 2 I wanted to write down some thoughts on why we shouldn't accept bad quality ports from developers.



Valve's Rich Geldreich Notes Some Problems With OpenGL, DirectX 12 Will Leave It In The Dust - Views: 19,752
Rich Geldreich states these are his personal thoughts after working with OpenGL, Rich is currently working at Valve on 'Vogl' an open source OpenGL debugger. He makes some interesting points.



The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition Released For SteamOS Linux - Views: 25,464
That's not an error, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition is now out for SteamOS/Linux and I am downloading it as I type this. Look at the bottom for the latest updates, it's not a native port.



The Community Has Beaten Epic At Porting The Unreal Editor To Linux - Views: 35,178
The community of coders has beaten Epic Games at the porting game and has ported the Unreal Editor to Linux already.


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