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Humble Indie Bundle Android 2
20 March 2012 at 3:08 pm UTC

Quoting: "Xpander, post: 3760, member: 92"i guess open source drivers still the common issue for some games with more gaphical detail or features and also some sound problems that have been plagued linux quite some time.
i myself havent run into those tho. but i have been using prop drivers with my ati card when i had it and now with nvidia as well.

The thing is that these were bugs _in the games_ not the drivers. But Nvidia and AMD doesn't follow the specs, so Mesa ends up taking the blame.

Humble Indie Bundle Android 2
19 March 2012 at 9:14 pm UTC

- Zen Bound 2 silently fails to start with Mesa drivers. You need to manually disable antialias in the game config. Considering that they asked for Linux beta testers and promised include Mesa devs with the beta testers this should have been caught and fixed.

- Still no fixes for Shank and Super Meat Boy. One needs to dig around in the bug tracker to find patches.

- Anomaly Warzone Earth from the first Android bundle is still broken. It was broken when it was first released (I could repeat the gripes about testing again here) and it's still broken in the latest update (which we waited a month for) with no word whatsover from the developers.

Humble Indie Bundle Android 2
19 March 2012 at 7:39 pm UTC

Nice, though I'm quite disappointed by the quality and support of the Linux ports from the bundles.

Wasteland 2 Kickstarted
21 March 2012 at 7:02 pm UTC

The "Kick it Forward" idea is pretty interesting:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts

Wasteland 2 Kickstarted
16 March 2012 at 11:26 am UTC

So have many of you played the original Wasteland? I must admit that I only know of it as the precursor to Fallout.

It's been on my list of games to check out, but that list only seems to grow longer and longer.

Wasteland 2 Kickstarted
15 March 2012 at 7:40 pm UTC

Thanks!

I see they have even reaffirmed Linux support in an update:
Quote"At the $1.5 Million level we will be adding a Linux version along with the Mac OS X version. We know that the Linux community is a very dedicated and internet-active group, so we hope their support will help us make that goal."

Wasteland 2 Kickstarted
15 March 2012 at 7:24 pm UTC

Oh dear, I would have made a much better writeup if I knew it would be posted verbatim on the front page :oops:

Anyhow, the initial goal for $900 000 has already been reached. Just $600 000 to go for the Linux port.

Deep Black: Reloaded coming to Linux
16 March 2012 at 7:24 pm UTC

It seems to have gotten some pretty mixed reviews, but I'm all for keeping an open mind until I can try it myself.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/deep-black-reloaded/critic-reviews

More Tomes of Mephistopheles updates!
1 March 2012 at 9:46 pm UTC

It wasn't the article so much as the comment thread. motorsep was basically threatening to throw in the towel when it comes to Linux support...