Edgley, that is a clearly worthy pick for our next issue. Feel free to give us tips like that any time!

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How cool that the hero of the day for this project turns out to be another Linux gamer
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infinitap/neverending-nightmares/comments?cursor=4435769#comment-4435768 [External Link]
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infinitap/neverending-nightmares/comments?cursor=4442919#comment-4442918 [External Link]

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Quoting: liamyet again it's another developer who states exporting to Linux using Unity is very easy, so I do still wonder why there's a small minority of developers who claim otherwise when the general consensus from every developer I talk to tells me how easy it is (I'm looking at you Interstellar Marines!).

Supposedly that was "Middleware" porting issues, stuff like Wwise... hopefully SteamOS will encourage more of it to be ported

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My guess is the glibc fix should be coming soon -- doubt they actually used any feature that got introduced in recent glibc releases, so it should be a recompile away. I'm waiting for that as I prefer to stay on gentoo stable toolchain rather than testing, and imagine that making it work with Ubuntu LTS will be a high priority bug for whoever is handling the Linux builds.

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And now, for a different (non-gamer) perspective on AMD video & Linux:

Yesterday I was talking to a gentoo comrade at work and mentioned my new desktop has a radeon, and got an enthused story about how awesome free radeon drivers are for non-gamers. He has had 6 years of trouble-free experience buying low-end (as in $20 fanless!) radeon cards for himself and family members and always having them work and continue to work through all the gentoo upgrades.

AMD has major strengths and weaknesses, and thus experience varies a LOT from person to person. They are the best at discrete cards and free drivers, but lose big if you only care about the best experience with proprietary drivers.

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If the controller generates the standard USB HID events for mouse and keyboard, it really will look like a keyboard and mouse to software so games won't need to do anything special to support it. There must be extra protocol defined for configuring it with the key mappings, but it looks like there is a separate configuration tool to avoid having to do that in every game.

Personally I like trackpads way better than trackballs (which was in a link somebody posted earlier this morning), might give this thing a try someday. Especially if there's an appealing package deal with a SteamBox later on. The main annoying thing to me is that it looks wireless, and I'd rather sit sorta close to the TV with power-over-USB than have to keep batteries charged up for when I want to play downstairs. On the other hand, this thing may take too much power for a couple USB ports with that feedback stuff, so it may not have been an option.

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Have my eye on Neo-Victorian Skirmish Squad, guess I need to get around to watching the pitch and decide soon. That concept of training your battle dice sounds pretty zany and appealing!

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Destiny Fails Us "It's the story of a teenage girl who should game less and study more"

Haha no wonder its fans didn't push it over the top yet, they're trying to cut down on gaming

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Quoting: Quote from berillions"Wwise will be there in Steam" as it's explained in the tweet. But only on SteamOS or for all Linux OS ?

It also said "Please contact us if you need Linux support now" so clearly it's for Linux. Unless the SteamOS announcement was totally inaccurate, saying something will be on SteamOS is like saying something is on fedora or ubuntu. It may not be equally convenient to run something on another distro, but it's almost always possible if you want it badly enough (unless the "it" under discussion is a binary driver which requires some specific distro kernel).

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