Technical difficulties with a few broken images and repeated Hidden Gems section -- please stand by, loyal readers ;)

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To set the record straight, this was as usual a team effort so all thanks go to The Funding Crowd team :)

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Sorry about the broken urls, Liam. I noticed I had left closing tags off some of them, which made a real mess when pasting in WSYWIG mode, and tried to fix those, but apparently there were even more that I missed.

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Ah I wonder if it's too late to add to my Christmas wishlist...

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Next issue should be early enough to catch that one before it ends, so I'll add it to the Hidden Gem nominees

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Quoting: Quote from wintermute.
anyhoo.. hope that it doesn't beat the waiting (time) for portal 2.. :/ or that it does not (ever?? :() appear in my (linux) library since that IS the only way acceptable for me to play it (no, do not want to wine it, thank you very much, did it, i admit, to play diablo iii :P )..
hoping for the best..
over und 0ut.. salutez feLLá lingamers.. :D

Portal 2 is coming next year, to celebrate the Steam Box release. Right, Valve? RIght??? 

I'm not buying XCOM on sale btw, would just as soon buy it later at full price to celebrate the official Linux announcement :)

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Quoting: Quote from Xodetaetl

Quoting: Quoteit actually looks better than the PS4 and Xbox One

It depends on tastes. For me it looks cheap and as boring as the PS4 and Xbone or any other high-tech mass market product. And that light bar must be annoyingly distracting when playing in a dark room.

From the linked article "the light bar will be customisable" so it would make sense that off would be one of the choices.

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Quoting: Quote from alexThunder

Quoting: QuoteI haven't used AMD graphics for some time now so I can't personally vouch for how good/bad they are.

I have a desktop with a Radeon 5870 and a notebook with a 7970M. Both run just fine.

Quoting: QuoteOne thing makes me laugh:

Still, iBuyPower says that existing Steam for Linux games should run quite well, at full 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second.

That should be true for, I guess, 95% (or more?) of the games at mid - high settings. The rest still should run in at least 30 fps.

I'll second this -- the video performance should be just fine for typical 1080p resolution. My current desktop has a Radeon 7850, and the specs for the R9 270 in this SteamBox are actually a little higher

http://www.hwcompare.com/16574/radeon-hd-7850-vs-radeon-r9-270/ [External Link]

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Liam, thanks for fixing the images. Duh, should have realized they were html pages instead of the images themselves.

bcruz111, thanks for your positive feedback on our articles -- we'll use it for inspiration on #24 :)

Also remember you can PM us (speedster, s_d, scaine, muntdefems) when you have a favorite crowd-funding project that you'd like covered in the next issue.

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Maybe we're getting to the point where soon the key distinction can be between "PC" and "mobile" hardware platforms -- devs will automatically pick a solid multi-OS engine, but still need to decide whether to focus effort on UI tailoring for one or both platforms (PC: keyboard+mouse or game-controller/big or VR display for PC, Mobile: touchscreen/small display)

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