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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Why We Shouldn't Accept Bad Linux Ports

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2014

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Thanks to the recent fiasco of The Witcher 2 I wanted to write down some thoughts on why we shouldn't accept bad quality ports from developers.

Left 4 Dead 3 & Half-Life 3 Are Real According To The Creator Of Counter Strike

By Liam Dawe, 22 May 2014

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The original creator of Counter Strike Minh "Gooseman" Le spoke to "goRGNtv" on twitch and Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3 came up.

Steam In-Home Streaming Now Open To All, Linux Streaming To Come Soon

By Liam Dawe, 22 May 2014

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Valve has finally opened up Steam's in-home streaming feature to everyone. Currently it allows you to Stream Windows games to different operating systems.

Alienware State Their Steam Machine Won't Be Very Profitable

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2014

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Alienware's general manager spoke to another site about his thoughts on Steam Machines and how he feels theirs will sell.

Epic Games Release New Information About Unreal Engine 4 & Linux Support

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2014

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Epic Games will soon be champions of Linux gaming for sure. They have done a big blog post on Linux support in Unreal Engine 4.

Act III Of Kentucky Route Zero Is Available Now, Plus Some Thoughts

By Cheeseness, 19 May 2014

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With Act III of Kentucky Route Zero now released, and a Game Club playthrough imminent, Cheese shares some thoughts on what makes it unique.

Defender Of The GNU/LGPL Threatens Project Zomboid

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2014

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Something I would like to highlight to you all today is the annoyance of licensing zealots that causes unneeded grief for people.

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The Funding Crowd: A Year In Review

By muntdefems, 17 May 2014

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And here comes the last treat he had prepared for you to celebrate the first anniversary of The Funding Crowd. A full year worth of successes and stats that we have been regularly dosing in our columns, now in one whole go!

Crypt of the NecroDancer First Impressions

By Cheeseness, 15 May 2014

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Linux builds of Crypt of the NecroDancer were made available to pre-orderers last week. Cheese takes some time to share his thoughts.

The Funding Crowd 32 (Apr 22nd - May 12th)

By muntdefems, 12 May 2014

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As we announced earlier today The Funding Crowd is back again, this time with our usual format. But don't think you're gonna get rid of us so easily... There still might be some surprises to come.

Valve's Rich Geldreich Is At It Again, The State Of Graphics Drivers OpenGL Support

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2014

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Another blog post from the Valve developer Rich Geldreich who works on the Vogl OpenGL debugger. This time Rich lends his experienced thoughts to the state of OpenGL in vendors drivers.

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The Funding Crowd Interviews Daniel Swiger (Chronicles Of The Rift, Shattered Time)

By muntdefems, 12 May 2014

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The Funding Crowd is celebrating its first birthday! As a present we are bringing you something new: an interview with Daniel Swiger, who at the moment is crowdfunding his project Chronicles of the Rift.

Valve's Rich Geldreich Notes Some Problems With OpenGL, DirectX 12 Will Leave It In The Dust

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2014

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Rich Geldreich states these are his personal thoughts after working with OpenGL, Rich is currently working at Valve on 'Vogl' an open source OpenGL debugger. He makes some interesting points.

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