I'm ready for Vulkan 100%.

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10/10 - will buy some form of steam machine :)

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Quoting: fraghopperThe Steam Uplink thing smells suspiciously like a "we weren't serious about moving to Linux, so here's a router so you can keep using Windows on your real machine but stream stuff to your tv".

Nah bra, I imagine that SteamUplink will be running SteamOS which is Linux, I see it as a ingenious demographic appraisal. I probably have $2,000 in Desktop hardware so it would be silly for me to buy a fully fledged Steam Machine at $700 just for my living room.

$50 - $120 however is a acceptable alternative. Valve is smart enough to know that they need to transition game developers onto SteamOS and they keyword is _gradually_, with Vulkan API, SteamOS and all the AAA titles already here and on the way - Linux & Valve have already won, the new Console will be here in November and it'll completely obliterate PS4, XBONE and WiiU. Once again Valve has a Royal Flush and is playing cards impeccably.

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Unreal 4 is fantastic, their UT4 beta is really fun and classic 2000 Unreal imo.

All games using Unreal Engine so far have been a pleasure to run, am looking foreward to U4 quite a bit :) Maybe Nexiuz will upgrade to it.

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Very good read.

I tried to run the Gallium PlayOnLinux "wine-1.7.34-gallium-nine-x32" and I couldn't install vcrun2005, vrun2008, etc...

My goal was to run StarCraftII on Gallium Nine as I can only get to High out of Extreme graphics settings and thought It would boost the capabilities of my new GTX 970.

I'm running the blob 346.x, It's a shame AMD hasn't fully open sourced their R9 290x driver yet because I would have rather dropped the $400 I spent last week on a AMD open source card, but hey - I need my PC to work _right now_ as I use it for work and gaming and can't affort to buy into the pipe dream until they deliver.

I was really excited about the HSA driver and Kernel 3.20 on my Arch Machine unfortunately It's my understanding that the R9 285 - R9 295x will require another AMD driver that hasn't been open sourced yet.

Maybe I'll give my GTX 970 to my girl and get me a AMD when they deliver, until then:
how I learned to stop caring and love the blob :)

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L would love to play this. Pandoras Tower JRPG was epic, I hope this will be too.

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I was using Game Maker in 2004, I guess if it came to Linux that would be nice, but I honestly don't care much.

We game devs have our choice of Unity, Torque2D became MIT last I heard and now I'm turned on to Haxe and Enigma, I'm sure we'll be better than fine.

Last time I tried GameMaker it was a mess of a application and slow.

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This article's title is misleading - it should read something more like:
DOTA 2 hits 1 million players online at the same time.

There are infact 11,000,000 unique players and not 1,000,000 that login each month. To anyone who says LOL trumps in players because they claim 40,000,000 players - that's nonsensical as the metric can't be compared. LOL counts players by the # the accounts registered, not by logins this month.

Between my girl and me we have 6 accounts, neither of us have played LOL in over a year as it runs like crap on WINE and Riot Games doesn't care. (DOTA has gained 6 million playes in about 8 months and made 40 Million Dollars off this years championship event in a matter of weeks.) LOL's fate is sealed - it will be a game for tweens, noobs, moms and baddies who can't handle the complexity of actives in DOTA whilest attracted to the boobage of Sona, Ahri and other champions.

Riot Games are lazy and too busy partying snorting cocaine off iphones while partying with young girls to do anything to enrich LOL suchas - I don't know - bring it to Linux and gain a highly technical market that spends lots of time and money on their PCs. Nope. But oh we're given a awesome new Reddit style forums that everyone hates, we get a music album and music videos - OMG LOL is sooo amazzzing!!! But hey! What else would you expect a company located in Orange County California? And now they're owned by the Chinese.

I have one last bone to pick - and that's the Riot Games strategically nurfs and buffs champions in order to perpetuate skin sales thereby putting cash into their bank, it's a ruthless tactic where your favorite hero's stats get dumped when X New Skin comes out for X Champion that just got buffed.

On the other hand, the strategic and intelligent valve rewards players for playing by giving random item and skin drops that entice players into playing more games. Skins, and Items are 90% cheaper than in LOL and players can resell items on the Steam Marketplace when they get tired or get a new preferred skin set. Valve is Genius.

The greed and lazyness of LOL has ruined LOL for me and many others.

(To those saying X DOTA2 player was moody/bitch and a bad experience, there's a mute button on the score screen - mute players on a per-player basis - so much better than when LOL disabled chatting with the enemy team.)

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I enjoyed the gamecast, I can't wait to download and try it out.

They really should release this on Steam as FreeToPlay, it would significantly help them to have a distribution mechanism keeping all users at the latest version automatically.

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This is great news, I used Construct 2 while on windows - It'll be nice to revisit it as I'm now Linux dependent.

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