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GOL On Advert Blocking, I Don't Hate You, But Please Don't Do It

By Liam Dawe,
72
Now and then I do a little post to request that you don't block our adverts, or if you do then we offer you the option to support us without seeing any adverts and gain extra perks in the process!
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Highlighting A Blog Post For Developers Using Unity To Publish On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
9
One of the developers of Desktop Dungeons has written a blog post from a Windows user point of view about getting Unity games to play nice on Linux.
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The Funding Crowd 33 (May 13th - June 1st)

By muntdefems,
6
Greetings, fans of The Funding Crowd! We are back after our anniversary celebrations, with the usual load of crowdfunding news enough to quench your pledging desires.
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A Developer Of Unity3D Also Speaks Out About OpenGL

By Liam Dawe,
38
Another day another developer speaking about OpenGL. This time around it's Aras Pranckevičius a developer of Unity.
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Steam Hardware Survey For May 2014, Linux Falls Short Of Last Month

By Liam Dawe,
21
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.
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OpenGL Is Broken According To Another Developer

By Liam Dawe,
24
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!).
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Youtube Are Being Stupid On Video Monetization Yet Again

By Liam Dawe,
12
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,
36
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,
13
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.
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Why The Porting Method Doesn't Matter For Linux Games

By Liam Dawe,
44
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,
8
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.
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Dota2's tournament prize fund has hit nearly 7 million dollars

By Liam Dawe,
8
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,
85
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.
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Left 4 Dead 3 & Half-Life 3 Are Real According To The Creator Of Counter Strike

By Liam Dawe,
9
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.
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Steam In-Home Streaming Now Open To All, Linux Streaming To Come Soon

By Liam Dawe,
12
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.
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Alienware State Their Steam Machine Won't Be Very Profitable

By Liam Dawe,
24
Alienware's general manager spoke to another site about his thoughts on Steam Machines and how he feels theirs will sell.
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Epic Games Release New Information About Unreal Engine 4 & Linux Support

By Liam Dawe,
9
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.
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Act III Of Kentucky Route Zero Is Available Now, Plus Some Thoughts

By Cheeseness,
4
With Act III of Kentucky Route Zero now released, and a Game Club playthrough imminent, Cheese shares some thoughts on what makes it unique.
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Defender Of The GNU/LGPL Threatens Project Zomboid

By Liam Dawe,
22
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,
5
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!
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