I have mixed experience with gaming on TV. I had big hopes for playing strategy games, but titles like Civilization V, Crusader Kings II, Empire: Total War - all have really tiny text in 1920x1080 resolution, so I have to size it down to the point that everything barely fits on the screen, for the text to be readable, at which point it's a much better idea to just play on my laptop at 1600x900...

FPS and Arcade games, on the other hand, are a prefect fit. In Talos Principle, even though there's lots of reading on the terminal, the text is perfectly legible from the couch. Borderlands 2 - similarly, the text size is just right at 1920x1080. I really hope that new releases (esp. strategy games) will be better adapted to Steambox & couch gaming.

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"trying to juggle with multiple projects and platforms" - LoG2 coming to Linux? :-)

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Quoting: PeciskI personally think that's coincidence - or just Microsoft trolling Valve big time (Fallout 4 was featured *very* visibly during XBO show). They also roll out their own DRM, so it might even be that they will deny Steam access to Fallout 4.

But Fallout 4 is already on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/377160/ [External Link]

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Quoting: nitroflowHerp derp disable enhanced steam.

Ah, so that might be the reason I guess.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: adolsonIt has been this way for a long, long time. Visit Steam in a browser, and it's still Tux.

No it's not, that's your cache keeping the tux icon. Do a hard refresh.

Screenshot after ctrl+shift+r in Firefox: http://s1.zrzut.pl/f6GiOdD.png [External Link]

Also you didn't discover anything new, maybe you just switched from Firefox to Chrome?
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2y07g8/did_steam_just_switch_the_tux_logo_to_a_steam_logo/ [External Link]

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I'm disinclined to buying Civ:BE until they add a strategic view akin to that in Civ5. Sure the gfx is nice but I don't play strategy games to admire the views.

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But the dev's review is just one review. If I'm not sure about the game. I just wait until a dozen or more reviews appear, it's not uncommon that a game has 100% positives out of 1-2 first reviews and then goes to 50% after more people give their opinion. So in my opinion it's good to write an article about a new game, share one's first impressions, give some opinion, but to center the article around the fact that a dev left the first review? Not really.

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It's really childish to judge the game based on that a developer wrote a review on it. Especially if you're not even sure if it was a developer's review in the first place.

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I just hope he will price it right this time, so that he's not disappointed with sales numbers (not only Linux).

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Liam, you should know better than that. You didn't share your question, so we can only guess how it was phrased, but obviously the person who answered has no idea that Linux=SteamOS or that there is some work going on behind the scenes, or both. Besides, every single PR manager you will contact will there you 'there are currently no plans to port this game to Linux' even if they are already porting it, so that they don't have to clean the sh*t if the port gets cancelled or takes ages.

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