Category: Editorial

This is fun, Ars Technica a rather big general tech news website has done a review of Gigabyte's AMD powered mini gaming box and give it a demerit for its poor Linux support.

Pawel Miechowski & Jakub Kowalski from 11bit Studios were very kind in taking time out of their extremely busy schedule of developing This War Of Mine to answer a few burning questions. They also let us know about their just released digital distribution platform.

It seems developers aren't happy about how quickly titles are being blasted onto Steam recently. I've seen a quote from the Secrets of Raetikon developer who got pushed off the Steam home-page within minutes.

The Funding crowd is here again, full of recommendations about new exciting crowdfunded games and a review of what happened to the projects we covered in our latest issue.

As we have reported before about Epic Games adding in Linux support for Unreal Engine 4.1+ it is now a reality. Unreal Engine 4.1 has been released!

So, if you are living under a rock let me remind you on something: Gearbox president Randy Pitchford stated he would talk to some people about a possibility of a Linux port for Borderlands 2. Sadly though as I expected from Randy it probably won't happen.

We mentioned before about a couple big names talking up OpenGL and how to unlock many times performance gains with it, the GDC video is now up in the vault for all to see.

An interesting little note is that when you look into how many games Steam has that are now on Linux, the figure has surpassed 400!

It seems the president of Gearbox is looking into how much interest there is for a Linux version of their extremely popular Borderlands series of FPS/RPG games.

Did that headline catch your attention? Good, it seems Square Enix sure does think highly of DRM and I am not amused.

Kalypso Media the German Developer and Publisher who are providing us sweet entertainment with Tropico 5 have stated they have more in store for us in future!

It seems a tweet from Michael Marks the development director at porting house Aspyr Media has been taken out-of-context by another well known Linux website, time to clear things up.

What the hell happened? I hear you cry! Fear not the old white design is still available in your UserCP.

It seems the Steam Controller may not arrive until near the end of the year. The news comes thanks to PC Gamer & PAX.

Sadly Mojang have let us down again, after repeatedly stating their card-based strategy game Scrolls will come to Linux they still have no idea when.

Before we told you about the CryEngine SDK that came up on SteamDB, well more has happened and according to the EULA it is the free SDK for CryEngine 3.

We did a little experiment that sadly didn't work out when trying out "Sponsored Articles", were someone could have an article in the home-page list.

So, you all know by now that Tropico 5 has been pushed back for the Steam Machines release and it does beg the question, are more AAA games waiting for Steam Machines?

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.

Tom Sparks and the Quakes of Ruin is a great looking 3D diesel-punk action-adventure game full of crazy weapons, exciting combat and exploration of mysterious underground worlds.