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This War Of Mine Is Bleak, Interesting & Difficult, Our Thoughts
18 November 2014 at 11:30 pm UTC

pro tip: get an axe to convert unused furniture in your house into wood and fuel. No way to scavenge all the wood you need in 2x inventory slots. Also upgrade your cooking stove or you will not have sufficient fuel when winter set in.

The Funding Crowd 39
17 November 2014 at 9:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

This one seems cool too and has reached their rather unambitious goal several time over already:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hydezeke/flamberge

This War Of Mine Survival Game Released, It's Buggy For Linux
15 November 2014 at 12:04 pm UTC

It saves into .thiswarofmine which is also hidden, just like many, many other programmes, so I don't see how this is that much of an issue.

The graphics errors seem to be related to using the newest Nvidia (beta?) drivers. With the slightly older one from the Ubuntu 14.04 repository it seems to work fine.

This War Of Mine Survival Game Released, It's Buggy For Linux
14 November 2014 at 11:29 pm UTC

Hmm, played several hours today with zero issues (never had any issues with the anomaly series either... all rock solid). I'm on an Kubuntu 14.04 system with an Nvidia Optimus GPU.

This war of mine is definitely worth playing, however it's quite difficult just to get along with food and sleep... I wish I had more stuff to actually improve my house :(

Reflex, A Potential Successor For Quake Going To Kickstarter
21 September 2014 at 8:14 pm UTC

Could still be Tesseract, in fact that they are using a "custom" engine does make it more likely that they based if of something MIT licensed. In game editing it a too obscure feature to just add to a prototype for fun...

Reflex, A Potential Successor For Quake Going To Kickstarter
21 September 2014 at 2:39 pm UTC

Any one got an idea what engine it uses? In-game editing and overall effects might point to something tesseract derived, but since that engine isn't copyleft...

Worlds of Magic Strategy Game Released On Steam Early Access
12 September 2014 at 9:53 am UTC

Looks cool, but Age of Wonders 3 is also coming soon I hope. I guess I will pick this up when it leaves early access.

Steam Hardware Survey For August 2014, Linux Slips
8 September 2014 at 4:45 am UTC

*sigh* lets stop arguing about these percentage figures. Besides all the things already mentioned, Steam is a fast growing platform, so most likely there are just more new Windows users than there are new Linux users thus driving the percentage down. However that doesn't mean that there are less Linux users.
The total number of steam users is also not all that interesting, as there are so many F2P accounts on it (especially under windows). The only figure that would matter is the revenue created by Linux users, but Valve isn't publishing that figure.

Reclaim The Couch: Steam In-home Streaming Returns To Linux
4 September 2014 at 9:52 am UTC

Would be great though if there was a thin ARM/Android compatible streaming client play games on your smart TV, tablet, dev-board etc.

Maybe the nvidia shield compatibe limelight open-source client could be extended to work with steam streaming not only through the Nvidia driver?

http://limelight-stream.com/

Feral Interactive Wish To Know Why You Game On Linux
3 September 2014 at 3:12 pm UTC

No vendor lock-in for the important stuff (i.e. not games, where Steam is ok) and these days I actually think Linux is superior to the alternatives (its atrocious to have to use a Windows computer once you are used to Linux). I used to game on Windows but having things on Linux directly is much more convenient, and my next PC will not have Windows at all (waste of HD space on my current old one already).