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There is now an open source driver and GTK3 based UI for interacting with the Steam Controller
By Tinche, 27 May 2016 at 10:08 pm UTC

Quoting: CruelAngelTested it, works fine, took me some time to realize how to config mode shift, but it works, sot cool. Will be using it with Guild Wars 2.

However... both the on screen keyboard and menu command does not do a thing. When I run scc-osd-menu or scc-osd-keyboard from the command line, it can't find a certain libXfixes.so, however the libxfixes3 package is already installed. I'm on 14.04 right now and installed the sc-controller from the prebuilt deb package.

Had the same problem, filed a couple of issues on the GitHub page. The maintainer fixed them in a matter of minutes, basically. Very impressed with the level of support :)

So try the newest build, should be fixed now for Ubuntu.

Zero Point Software update us on their search for a publisher for Interstellar Marines, requiring 1.7 million dollars
By ZeroPointSoftware, 27 May 2016 at 9:58 pm UTC Likes: 3

Thank you for writing the article. Also tweeted it out :). For some of the questions and posts in the article and comments, I'll try to answer as much as I can.

Riddick, all the money we've made from selling IM on Steam has gone directly back into developing the game. Things have been slow but we're still determined to make more progress and continue working on making the game great.

Boltronics, we have a small community. It isn't just you, usually it's during a few peak hours that people start playing. Hopefully it'll change once we're close to finishing and continuing the campaign.

Picoboom, I completely understand what you mean. We added a bit to the game since the free weekend but it was the Wargames mode that took some time to do that was the most significant. We also added a few more things since then but content-wise that was the largest.

HadBabits, there's going to be a lot more enemies for sure. While the enemy players and CTRs might not be everyone's cup of tea, there's going to be a lot more (Titan Walkers, Landsharks, Humans, and some other things out of. After all, we're definitely not alone ;) )

Thank you guys for supporting us as we continue to find a publisher but if you guys have any more questions or comments, I'll be here!

-Michael

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on Linux, uses Wine
By OLucasZanella, 27 May 2016 at 9:54 pm UTC Likes: 2

Had seen the discount a few days ago, but didn't buy because wasn't officially on Linux, therefore my buy wouldn't count as a Linux sale. Oh, excuse me, it just finished downloading. It will be a good weekend!

Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM is planning a new strategy game named Phoenix Point, it will support Linux
By mcphail, 27 May 2016 at 9:33 pm UTC

I'll happily kick-start this one, as I did for Chaos Reborn. I've ploughed more hours into Julian's games than everything else combined.

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on Linux, uses Wine
By STiAT, 27 May 2016 at 9:23 pm UTC

Quoting: DamonLinuxPLI trying it in open beta and open beta perform bad... but after Reality Pump developers change WINE stable to WINE experimantal with CSMT it work well for me with AMD GPU and fglrx driver.

Yea, no idea why the CSMT patches still don't make it in, almost everything runs better with it. Same with the PhysX patches...

The Wine Development Release 1.9.11 Is Now Available
By mrdeathjr, 27 May 2016 at 9:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

In this wine version appears some things like wine icon in wine start button on desktop mode and more work in buffer and DX11 for courtesy jozef kucia and others

View video on youtube.com

In other issues sayonara umihara kawase now shows character and scenary, in before wine versions only ears sound with black screen

However now main problem stay in fonts

Other issue stay in steam fps overlay begins work in DX11 (appears in sayonara umihara kawase and tested in ori and the blind forest DX11 too)

Other titles begins work case cryostasis and others as driver parallel lines back to work

View video on youtube.com

^_^

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on Linux, uses Wine
By DamonLinuxPL, 27 May 2016 at 9:13 pm UTC

I trying it in open beta and open beta perform bad... but after Reality Pump developers change WINE stable to WINE experimantal with CSMT it work well for me with AMD GPU and fglrx driver.

Feral Interactive are teasing another new Linux & Mac port with a new clue
By amckinnon, 27 May 2016 at 8:51 pm UTC Likes: 1

I hope it is DOOM. Really want to play that game.

F1 2015 released for Linux by Feral Interactive, Nvidia only for now, port report, video and more included
By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2016 at 8:48 pm UTC

Quoting: Tom BI'm not sure why you were seeing problems at 4k, I have no problems at all running it at 4k high settings on a 980ti. (Arch linux, latest kernel/drivers, hex core Xeon X5670 @ 4.2ghz cpu, 32gb ram, inno3d 980ti hybrid).
I actually re-ran a test just now and it was running a lot smoother than before, so unsure what my previous issue was at 4K.

Atari Vault, the 100 game collection officially launches on Linux & SteamOS
By amckinnon, 27 May 2016 at 8:40 pm UTC

I never thought we would see stuff like this end up on Linux. Hope to buy it next week.

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on Linux, uses Wine
By STiAT, 27 May 2016 at 7:43 pm UTC

On 1.09? Okay, I would be stupid not buying it ... even if I could run it with one of my patched wines myself.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.11 Is Now Available
By Shmerl, 27 May 2016 at 7:20 pm UTC

If it's not needed for most games, then it's better to leave it as an optional fix.

Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM is planning a new strategy game named Phoenix Point, it will support Linux
By STiAT, 27 May 2016 at 7:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

QuoteHe is currently looking to talk to publishers and investors about it.

First of all hope he can get it financed.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By t3g, 27 May 2016 at 7:11 pm UTC

By posting monthly usage stats based off of a rare survey and not actual collected data, developers are becoming less inclined to spend the resources to port to a platform with declining usage per month. Valve is not spending enough of their resources to help developers port to Linux. They are more concerned about VR with Vive, which is Windows only.

Since SteamOS is a side project for Valve that is bleeding money, how long until they give up on SteamOS and supporting Linux in general? More devs will leave Linux and Vulkan will be used mainly for Android. Ugh.

According to Deep Silver the new editions of Dead Island are not coming to Linux
By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2016 at 6:43 pm UTC

Quoting: Shutup-Fool
Quoting: m2mg2For those of you who have preloaded it, can you browse local files and see any linux specific files (executables, game related .so files)?

I preloaded it, but couldn't find the files. It did take up the space on my drive though. Only a few days to go, but I'm feeling optimistic thanks to the person who got in touch with Koch media.
Pretty sure pre-loading actually keeps it in some sort of encrypted file, which gets extracted at release.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By _J_30000, 27 May 2016 at 5:29 pm UTC

Oh dear the internet has gone into self-destruct :P

no more seriously this is kind of dead unless its both soon and gains new purchase due to xbox release.

one point made above is single player games - those fare better and there totally is value in supporting the guys at feral etc.

anyway fingers crossed - and remember PONG has just been released for Linux...

The Wine Development Release 1.9.11 Is Now Available
By Shmerl, 27 May 2016 at 4:17 pm UTC

Good to hear they fixed the long standing Witcher bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34052

According to Deep Silver the new editions of Dead Island are not coming to Linux
By Shutup-Fool, 27 May 2016 at 4:00 pm UTC

Quoting: m2mg2For those of you who have preloaded it, can you browse local files and see any linux specific files (executables, game related .so files)?

I preloaded it, but couldn't find the files. It did take up the space on my drive though. Only a few days to go, but I'm feeling optimistic thanks to the person who got in touch with Koch media.

According to Deep Silver the new editions of Dead Island are not coming to Linux
By m2mg2, 27 May 2016 at 3:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

For those of you who have preloaded it, can you browse local files and see any linux specific files (executables, game related .so files)?

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By StraToN, 27 May 2016 at 3:29 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EagleDeltawe only have a few choices at this time:

1. Wait and get them after everyone else to show developers there is interest/money in Linux.
2. Refuse to get them if they take too long, which would ultimately hurt Linux gaming more as Publishers/Developers would assume that there is little to no interest/money in Linux-based gaming.
3. Give up on Linux Gaming altogether.

Are you seriously accepting the option to accept anything without considering the context? That is, you accept to pay for a game, a multiplayer game, more than 1 year after its first release (July 15th 2015 for the record)? This is exactly the same way to do that led the current industry to produce incomplete games at the same price just to sell DLCs.

If you accept it, good for you. I don't. I won't give my money away for games I won't play just to "show there is interest/money in Linux". I do accept to pay a higher price, but I won't accept to pay the same price for a product that is released 1 year later than other platforms' version. This is what I call defending Linux : not accepting Linux to be treated as a second class citizen. And of course, 3rd option is not an option.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By adolson, 27 May 2016 at 3:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

At this point, it'd be faster for anyone to take up programming as a hobby and hone their craft to the point where they could write a good Rocket League clone.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By EagleDelta, 27 May 2016 at 3:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: mulletdeathI'm getting so tired of getting games years after everyone else stopped caring. "Valve time" is not adequate for games releasing on Linux after they've already been released on everything else in existence.

I think everyone is, however we only have a few choices at this time:

1. Wait and get them after everyone else to show developers there is interest/money in Linux.
2. Refuse to get them if they take too long, which would ultimately hurt Linux gaming more as Publishers/Developers would assume that there is little to no interest/money in Linux-based gaming.
3. Give up on Linux Gaming altogether.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By mulletdeath, 27 May 2016 at 2:51 pm UTC

I'm getting so tired of getting games years after everyone else stopped caring. "Valve time" is not adequate for games releasing on Linux after they've already been released on everything else in existence.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date
By 1mHfoksd1Z, 27 May 2016 at 2:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

Don't care. As long as they are still working on it and regularly reconfirming it, it means that they actually do want to do it and eventually it will happen. I'd much rather have a very late but stable port than an early and bugged one.
They are obviously struggling with some obstacles, that's understandable. We should be thankful that they are still working hard to do it, unlike many other lazy/cowardly devs who just give up. They should take their time with this port and if they do it right then it will be a good one; a bit late tho, but that's unimportant and it won't matter much after release.

Whoever wants to play along with the masses starting from day-1 should do it on Windows... Linux is a newcomer and late-ports are to be expected. Of course we should start seeing more and more early ones, but it can't be all of them. We can't expect to be on the same level with Windows, which has a long tradition in gaming... it will take time and we should be patient. Remember the days when Steam itself wasn't availabile on Linux? How was the community coping with the lack of games back then and why is it complaining about delayed ports now? I think we've got soooo over ourselves since Valve started investing in Linux, and that's not good, not good at all.

According to Deep Silver the new editions of Dead Island are not coming to Linux
By leillo1975, 27 May 2016 at 2:02 pm UTC

Koch Media are closed at this time. They work 10:00 --> 15:00 (Monday to Friday)


https://www.deepsilver.com/es/ayuda/

According to Deep Silver the new editions of Dead Island are not coming to Linux
By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2016 at 1:52 pm UTC

I also messaged Techland with no reply, so I have reached out to Koch Media myself now as well.

Still doesn't show Linux support on Steam itself, but I was able to pre-load.