Category: Editorial

This is quite interesting, it seems Valve are actually doing some more curating on their store now ahead of the SteamOS launch.

Since some people did get in an early order (not me, doh!), you will need to do a quick fix to get it to register properly.

A few big sites are now pushing out their articles on the new hardware from Valve, so I decided to point them out for you and take a look.

I'm pretty sad about this, as the last trailer for Broforce specifically mentioned Linux as a platform. Checking their Steam forum, it seems they haven't even begun to build and test it yet.

I'm really excited to try Magicka 2, as I thought the first one was quite fun. The developer has been keeping everyone up to date on progress in their Steam forum. Sadly, for AMD GPU users it looks like it won't run as well as on Nvidia hardware.

After the recent SteamDB info for Minecraft: Story Mode, we have some more interesting info to share. It seems one of the developers at Telltale is a Linux user, and wants to see the new Minecraft: Story Mode on Linux.

After CPU architect Jim Keller left AMD recently, Phil Rogers has now also left and joined up with Nvidia. Here's to hoping their Zen CPU line will bring them back into a nicer light.

I didn't expect to read this any time soon! Humble Bundle has laid off 12 people (20% of their staff) due to being over ambitious with their previous hiring.

Just a heads up Linux gamers, our release calendar has been updated. It will no longer spam the entire year out to you when you visit.

Since I see a lot of confusion about where to buy Linux games from, I decided to write up some information for you on how to make sure you're counted for Linux.

Welcome to issue 51 of The Funding Crowd, where we have as many as three biggies and a bunch of exciting hidden gems to cover.

Valve look like they will become the ultimate trolls with a new leak. It looks like they included some files directly related to Half-Life 3 in a recent Dota 2 update.

With earlier news about another Saints Row game, a member of the community sent word that Virtual Programming have updated their website to include Saints Row 2 & 3 as in development.

Pretty safe to say Quasar caught my eye, and not just because Linux is going to be a first class citizen, but it looks great and I want to get my hands on it.

As usual Steam has produced their monthly hardware survey, and also as usual there is hardly any change across the platforms.

Some games are so bad, they actually become good, Dinosaur Hunt: Africa Contract is not one of those games.

xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives). It's at an early stage, but progress is being made.

The developer of Super Win the Game has written a blog post about how Super Win the Game did sales wise.

Sad news folks, Alien: Isolation has been delayed for Linux. There is no set release date now, but this gives them time to polish it up.

Harmful buying habits is a topic that I've more than once gotten quite loud and obnoxious about on our IRC channel before. So, I figured I would write about these habits in an editorial form to be loud and obnoxious here too. So, let's talk about some shady and possibly harmful stuff.