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Valve's VOGL Debugger Makes It Even Easier To Debug OpenGL Games

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Peter Lohrmann has been working on Valve's VOGL debugger to make it easier to use for developers looking to it for help.

GOL On Advert Blocking, I Don't Hate You, But Please Don't Do It

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Now and then I do a little post to request that you don't block our adverts, or if you do then we offer you the option to support us without seeing any adverts and gain extra perks in the process!

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Highlighting A Blog Post For Developers Using Unity To Publish On Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

One of the developers of Desktop Dungeons has written a blog post from a Windows user point of view about getting Unity games to play nice on Linux.

The Funding Crowd 33 (May 13th - June 1st)

By muntdefems, 2 Jun 2014

Greetings, fans of The Funding Crowd! We are back after our anniversary celebrations, with the usual load of crowdfunding news enough to quench your pledging desires.

A Developer Of Unity3D Also Speaks Out About OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2014

Another day another developer speaking about OpenGL. This time around it's Aras Pranckevičius a developer of Unity.

Steam Hardware Survey For May 2014, Linux Falls Short Of Last Month

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2014

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.

OpenGL Is Broken According To Another Developer

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2014

The more Linux gains popularity thanks to Valve & Steam the more we are seeing developers claim OpenGL is broken/hard to use and so on. This time it's Joshua Barczak the lead graphics engineer for Firaxis Games (think Civilization!).

Youtube Are Being Stupid On Video Monetization Yet Again

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2014

Youtube are in the firing line again for anyone who wants to make money from gaming videos on their service with the latest stupid move.

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Ask The Community: Your Thoughts On The Steam Client Being DRM

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2014

A new topic to generate some discussion today is an ask the community section on why you think Steam itself is DRM?

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Desura Starts A Race To The Bottom For Indie Games

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2014

Desura starting this weekend will launch a big sale called "Cheap End", it will run monthly on the lasy weekend of every month and promises plenty of cheap games.

Why The Porting Method Doesn't Matter For Linux Games

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2014

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.

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Unity3D Releases Unity 4.5 & With It Comes Major Linux Fixes

By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2014

I really hope a lot of Unity developers upgrade to Unity4.5 as it offers up some heavily needed fixes to the engine for Linux builds of games.

Dota2's tournament prize fund has hit nearly 7 million dollars

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2014

I'm not sure how many of you follow e-sports I sure don't, but this figure is interesting regardless. Dota2's next big tournment now has well over $6 million to hand out.