Category: Editorial

The second part in my investigation into how well developers are doing on Linux with selling their games via the Steam store.

The Funding Crowd is finally back! Somewhat later than we intended, but making it is what matters the most rather than making it fast, as they say.

Valve are again spreading the joy to developers with free games, this time the Ubuntu developers are now eligible to get free Valve games!

Steam has now taken a first small step towards increasing awareness of their SteamOS with new branding on their top navigation.

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.

Minecraft the insanely successful indie game has now hit well over 14 MILLION sales on PC alone, that includes Windows, Mac & Linux since it's a Java game.

This will excite any developer and gamer who actually has their hands on some VR kit, Valve has updated the Steamworks API to officially include their VR API.

Never thought that being a reader of GamingOnLinux and Debian mailing lists would intersect so directly. But look at what just arrived at my mailbox. That is right, Valve is giving away all their past and future games to Debian Developers.

In another shocking move from one manufacturer, Alienware has decided to lock down their Steam Machine with no customization, no upgrades and a yearly refresh cycle...what?

Slitherine game store and publisher has announced improved cross platform support. Until now, Pandora: First Contact was only available to Linux gamers as a download and you had to buy the version separate from the Windows and Mac version.

One year after Linux fans came together to show support, Toki Tori 2 has finally arrived for Linux! Two Tribes, however, has recently emerged from financial troubles as a new company - where does Linux support fit for them now?

I reached out to a number of developers to see how their sales are doing across different operating systems, here are the results for you.

I don't usually point out developers blog posts unless they say something interesting, luckily the developer of Democracy 3, Gratuitous Space Battles, Redshirt & more has said something I bet a lot of developers now feel.

The Leadwerks game creation tool has pushed passed two major Linux issues the developers came across making way for the Linux release. Good news everyone!

So Steam Dev Days is off again and we are here again to bring you the highlights from afar in lonely UK.

Well Steam Dev Days has kicked off in style and we have a little bit of the lowdown here for you, keep an eye on this post as I will keep updating it to keep everyone in the loop as much as I can!

Earlier today, Owlchemy Labs and Dejobaan Games released an update for AaaaaaaaAAAAaAAaaaaAA!!! For the Awesome, which adds the Rift friendly "Aaaaaculus" version on Linux!

Steam Developer Days is only 2 days away now folks and the list of talks is getting rather large, time to get excited.

Lauri Kasanen wrote into Phoronix to request help in gathering information on the r600g open source AMD graphics driver.

The Funding Crowd is back in 2014 with the best and the finest crowdfunding campaigns on which you can spend whatever you've got left after the holidays.