Category: Editorial

The Cheapskate's Corner is back with the latest bundles and sales offering cheap Linux games for you.

Well this is fun news, Lars Gustavsson of DICE has spoken to Polygon about what he thinks of Linux. In future we could see a Battlefield title on Linux.

Creative Assembly have said to PCGamesN that a port of Total War: Rome II to Linux to support SteamOS gives them no worries.

So recently a boxed copy of XCOM Enemy Unknown & Civilization V together popped up on Amazon and it prominently lists Linux as a platform option, not only that but Borderlands 2 as well.

With this one, The Cheapskate's Corner reaches its 20th issue. That's roughly 5 months helping you find the best and cheapest games for Linux. What would you ever do without it?

Leadwerks the game engine and visual editor that successfully crowdfunded itself to come to Linux has been shown off a bit.

With Assault Android Cactus now available on Steam Early Access and via a Humble Store Widget on AssaultAndroidCactus.com (Includes DRM free Steam key, and optional Deluxe edition bonuses), I thought I'd share why this cutely styled sci-fi game caught my eye.

Valve has revealed the specifications for the different range of Steam Machines that they will use for the 300 beta units.

The Funding Crowd reaches its 20th instalment with this very same article, the first ever to be crowd sourced.

Sad news for you folks, MyGameCompany the creators of the Dirk Dashing series and supporters of GOL is to shut its doors.

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.

So folks it may or may not be coming, but Valve has now officially filed for a trademark on Half-Life 3.

This is a PSA on behalf of all the cheapskate gamers out there. Please read carefully this new instalment of The Cheapskate's Corner so you know where to find the best deals at the lowest possible price.

Valve has unveiled the final announcement and it's a controller and it's a very peculiar looking device.

WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine (Wwise) is an audio library game developers can use license to use in their games.

So AMD has announced a low level graphics API that will be cross platform (no actual platforms stated yet though). This will make things very interesting that's for sure.

The Funding Crowd goes on, at the rhythm our tightly scheduled lifes allows. But soon things are going to change...

Valve have announced SteamOS, their own operating system based on Debian Linux that will be placed on a variety of gaming machines due for release in 2014.

So with the dust settling in about Valve's new SteamOS it's time to take a quick think about it all.

So IndieGameStand the website which used to be all about a new pay-what-you-want and charity supporting game sale every 96 hours has officially launched a full game store.