Category: Editorial

Jason Ekstrand, a developer hired by Intel has done a presentation about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016. The slides are interesting, but not too in-depth to overwhelm you.

Sad news, I was really looking forward to playing The Vanishing of Ethan Carter but it looks like I won't get a chance. The developers have come across too many issues.

Just a heads up folks, Parkitect is currently broken on Linux due to heavy graphical glitches, so if you were thinking about picking it up I would hold off until we can give the all clear.

I have been hoping to see something like this. Open Game Benchmarks is a brand new website dedicated to showing off benchmarks from Linux games.

I've been waiting for this for many months, and Valve has finally fixed their Steam store filters to allow you to view only Upcoming games on SteamOS & Linux.

A few websites are reporting that Steam for Linux has hit 1900 games after only hitting 1800 around nine days ago, this is false.

Ars Technica are usually quite interesting, but this latest SteamOS post bugged me a bit. The author tried out a Zotac's SN970 and had an issue with it.

Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry, the re-release of poorly received Raven's Cry has been removed from Steam, and the situation gets weird.

Sad news today, Arcen Games who support Linux rather nicely with their games is laying off almost all staff members.

Garry Newman's latest lovely remark is that if he could do it again, he would never support Linux. It joins the list of lovely quotes from him about the platform.

Another month, and another survey done. The latest results are in and the findings are within normal expectations. This leads me to a question I want to ask everyone.

I have to admit that 1,800 is a pretty nice looking number. We have come such a long way in such a short amount of time it's really unreal at times.

A developer of Squad mentioned again that they want to do a Linux version, but it's not a priority. The developer asked people to comment on his reddit post in they want Linux support.

I was wondering what was going on with the silence of That Dragon, Cancer. Linux wasn't listed on their website, and it launched on Steam without the promised Linux version. Now at least we know. Check the bottom for tweets to us from the developer.

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) isn't too far away now, and a few more sessions are starting to appear. One in particular caught the interesting of a reader who sent it in, and now it's exciting me too.

We are firmly into the new year now, so what have you all been playing recently? It's been a while since I asked!

Good news Rocket League fans, as it seems the game will be out on SteamOS & Linux before the Xbox One version, and it's looking like it will be end of January to early February.

Creative Assembly aren't the best at communication, and it seems the Total War: Rome II Linux & SteamOS port was silently dropped.

Greetings Linux gamers, our GOTY award is now open for voting. We have multiple categories to vote in this year, as requested.

Planetary Annihilation has a rather interesting history, and John Comes the Design Director at Uber Entertainment did a write up on it all.