Now that I have a Steam Machine of my own built, and SteamOS as the only operating system on it I can give you some thoughts on it.
Ars Technica recently ran a few Windows vs SteamOS benchmarks, and it shows what we here already know: A lot of ports have worse performance on SteamOS & Linux.
For the purposes of this review I will be concentrating fully on the single player campaign. I did have a quick peek at the DM tools but found them lacking for creating anything other than simple dungeon crawls or completely linear adventures.
gameinformer has reported that Origin PC has decided against using SteamOS for what was going to be their Steam Machine, so time to stop calling it a Steam Machine.
I wanted to see how easy it was to not only get Minecraft working with the Steam Controller on Ubuntu, but to also see if I could get it all on my Steam Machine, and as it turns out most of it is easy enough.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I was this excited about any hardware. It may only be a gamepad, but the Steam Controller is so very different it’s refreshing.
Today will go down in the history books of Linux gaming that’s for sure, although not in as big a way as I was hoping for.
It has been a day over three years since Steam was initially put into a limited beta for Linux, and since then things have never quite been the same for Linux gaming thanks to SteamOS as well.
Left 4 Dead 2 looks like one I will be trying out soon when my Steam Controller arrives next week. Also great to see surround sound in more games!
A fellow from Nordic Games has commenting about the disappearance of the announced Darksiders and Darksiders II Linux ports.
Sooner than I thought they would, but exciting to see. There are details leaking out that Nvidia GPU driver 358.66 will add a bunch of Vulkan support in.
I have to hand it to Alienware as they really are trying to do a push for their Steam Machine units, we have another video to show off, this time from Trisha Hershberger.
Lon Seidman on youtube posted up a pretty decent video showing off the Alienware Steam Machine, it's worth a watch and has given me some more thoughts.
Jäsøn - Season I is not only a rip off of the Friday The 13th movies, it's also a complete rip off full stop and I advise everyone to steer clear of it.
Take a look at the latest issue of The Funding Crowd for a new batch of crowdfunding campaigns for Linux.
As new releases are a little light today, and I'm really rather tired it's question time. What has been your biggest let down from a Linux game this year?
One of the things I do here is contact developers who promised a Linux version of a game which hasn't yet surfaced, and the latest user request for me to check was Moebius: Empire Rising.
A fellow on the official Steam forum for Divinity: Original Sin has been commenting to Linux users criticising the delay, and it's an interesting read.
A recent Polygon article that covered Valve's new hardware has some information from Valve, and it's not entirely clear, but it looks like Just Cause 3 could come to Linux.
Oh man, what a day. First Insurgency, and now Magicka 2 both being in Beta for Linux. Update: It's now downloading.