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Latest Comments by Sslaxx
Aspyr Media Plans More Linux Games In The Next 6 Months UPDATED
29 Oct 2014 at 11:46 am UTC

Yes, they did a good job on XCOM, but their attitude as a whole seems to be of vague disinterest (remember the coming games radar?).

Aspyr Media Plans More Linux Games In The Next 6 Months UPDATED
29 Oct 2014 at 11:25 am UTC

I'm not particularly keen on Feral's attitude towards Linux ports so far, so I'm not going to hold my breath for them to be releasing very much if anything in future.

Hey, if Aspyr wants Linux money and Feral doesn't, then Aspyr gets money.

Unreal Tournament Has Public Builds Available For All Platforms Now
22 Oct 2014 at 5:52 pm UTC

Looking like they just released this without testing it.

Civilization: Beyond Earth Linux Release Date Cleared Up
22 Oct 2014 at 8:06 am UTC

Hopefully by "close behind" they mean inside of six months... Divinity: Original Sin (for just one, never mind BG:EE etc!) I'm looking at you...

Unity3D Games "Phone Home" With Details Of Your Hardware & Software
13 Oct 2014 at 12:30 pm UTC

GameMaker Studio also does this, I believe. I'd not be surprised if CryEngine or UE4 does too.

Rising Angels: Reborn Available On Linux & It's Free
13 Sep 2014 at 9:41 am UTC

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23784 [External Link] is the discussion topic for the game on the Lemma Soft (Ren'Py) forums.

[EDIT: Site seems to be mangling URL...]

AMD Working Closely With Khronos Group On Next-gen OpenGL, Gives Mantle Access
15 Aug 2014 at 8:51 am UTC

Well, if OpenGL 5 comes to resemble Mantle (which resembles OpenGL anyway), technically speaking the assertion "a lot of developers are going to support it" would be true.

Football Manager 2015 Will Support Linux Again
8 Aug 2014 at 4:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'd rather see SEGA bring over some of their Sonic games to Linux.

The Team Behind PlayOnLinux & PlayOnMac Reveals PortMyApps (UPDATED)
4 Aug 2014 at 6:09 pm UTC

Well, so long as it works better than the wrapper Witcher 2 uses...

Deep Silver Buys The Rights To Homefront From Crytek, Linux Now Uncertain
31 Jul 2014 at 11:35 am UTC

Yeah, the situation is confused. http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/07/30/crytek-u-k-is-closing-down-following-homefront-sale-while-austin-studio-suffers-layoffs/ [External Link] implies Crytek UK is being shut down full stop. Hopefully someone will actually clarify what is and is not going on soon.