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The latest Steam Client Beta has sorta broken downloads and updates for some Linux users
2 Nov 2016 at 5:00 pm UTC
Quoting: Mountain ManThis would be one of the many reasons Valve does not recommend people use the beta version if you want stability.
And yet they explicitly recommended using the beta version if you have a Steam Controller.

On the Disk Write Error front: I got this error when there was a broken symlink in a game directory. Might be worth checking your Steam folder for a similar issue.
'The Little Acre', a great looking adventure game with hand-drawn animations releases next month
31 Oct 2016 at 3:20 pm UTC Likes: 1
I played a demo of this at EGX, dev confirmed to me then it would be coming to Linux. The artwork really is excellent and the demo played very well.
The latest 'Steam Client Beta Update' fixes wired Steam Controller support on Linux
21 Oct 2016 at 11:51 am UTC
This update totally torched my Steam directory - I think it may have crashed while updating so this issue [External Link]. Of course this only happened after I'd finished downloading Mad Max.

The cable issue was confusing when I was trying to set up my Steam Link the other week. The instructions on the Link said I had to connect the controller to a computer by USB to update the firmware, which didn't work.
Colony building sim 'Maia' has a big update, taking another look
13 Oct 2016 at 5:58 pm UTC
The link at the bottom appears to be garbled too.
Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made
13 Oct 2016 at 10:53 am UTC
Quoting: sarmadValve was obviously waiting on Vulkan for pushing the entire SteamOS ecosystem, not just the VR part, which is understandable.
Coupled with the upcoming new chipsets from AMD I'm thinking we'll soon start seeing new Steam Machines bundled with Vives as a living room VR solution.
Shadow Warrior 2 may not come to Linux after all, it's getting a bit confusing
6 Oct 2016 at 2:17 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Cybolicso I hope there are at least some repercussions within companies when developers/artists/tech support people say these kind of things to press.
Will there be repercussions for the journalists who ask questions these people are unlikely to know the answer to? (I know that, in this case, the question came from the audience - the point is more general)

In the world of AAA they don't let these kind of people talk to press, this is one of the reasons why. In a team of over a hundred people almost none of them will know everything that's going on.
Civilization VI for Linux is no longer certain, only a possibility
5 Oct 2016 at 3:18 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: soulsourceYep, as a game developer I can confirm that middleware can be a showstopper when it comes to portability. We use a special FX software which only supports Windows and (supposedly, but not really) Mac for our current Unity-project.
We're all well aware of that sort of issue. The question we have, since even us users are well aware of it, is why developers keep choosing to use middleware that isn't cross platform when they've promised to release cross platform?
Event[0] a sci-fi narrative exploration game is coming to Linux, befriend a spaceship computer to get home to Earth
15 Sep 2016 at 11:09 am UTC
There were a couple of PCs running this at EGX Rezzed this year, I wanted to play it but there was always a queue (not just someone playing it, but a queue). I take this as a good sign.

Quoting: tuubian unauthorized fan remake/translation of ELIZA for the C64 as a kid
I'm pretty sure that ELIZA was in the public domain as it was developed in an academic setting. A new implementation only took a few hundred lines of PROLOG, most of that data, it was one of the early assignments when I did my AI classes at University. In any case you were probably playing a version based on the BASIC implementation published in Creative Computing in 1977 [External Link].

If anyone is interested in experiencing computing history but doesn't want to install Emacs there's a JavaScript version [External Link].
Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire, a visually appealing and beautifully presented tactical turn-based RPG
1 Sep 2016 at 2:13 am UTC
Backed this on Kickstarter, back when I did that sort of thing. So far very happy with the way it's turned out both in story and mechanics. I played for just under two hours tonight, though part of that was doing the first big battle three times while I figured out what I was doing.
A look at Planet Nomads now it's in closed alpha and available on Linux
26 Aug 2016 at 12:01 pm UTC
Quoting: CreakI was expecting it but I wanted to try anyway, the game doesn't work with an old Radeon HD 6870 with the open source drivers.
Did you start with the -force-opengl option as described in the article? A lot of Unity 5.x based games have not worked without that on my AMD laptop.