Quoting: philip550ci have played every serious sam game all the way through co-op, really enjoy them. Serious Sam 3 was the best game when steam for linux first came out. Very excited about a new one. I hope its not in the desert again, I enjoy the tropical setting of the first games more.

Actually, the very first Serious Sam game was set in the dessert...

Not that I personally ever really got into any of the Serious Sam games. People say they bring back the classic Doom formula, but there is a lot more to Doom than just shooting lots of dumb enemies in vast but still surprisingly linear courtyards.

It probably is more fun as a co-op game though, and my only experience with them is admittedly only with some of the older ports that were never properly polished.

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This is not new to Linux, only to Steam:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/chucks-challenge-3d-released-on-desura.2699

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Quoting: GuestWhy the hate for 32 bit? 32 bit programs are often faster, and use less RAM than 64 bit ones. Besides, who cares? Both work perfectly fine. (And yes, I do have a 32 bit processor in one of my computers.)

I still have several 32 bit only computers on my network simply due to the hardware. Some people forget how popular Linux is on older hardware. I also only have one or two machines on my network which have more than 4 GB of RAM, which is one of the main things that makes 64 bit attractive.

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Quoting: DuncKitten, I heard the exact opposite, that it tended to force you into the Keynesian tax-and-spend model. In fact, that's why I didn't buy it.

Did you not think it possible that what Kitten was hoping for was far beyond the realm of plain Keynesian economics?

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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Quoting: berarmaI think what HIB is trying to accomplish isn't easy yet, they're still going against the current after all this time.

The thing is, and maybe this was all just some big illusion from the start, it did not really seem all that difficult nor that penalizing for them go against the grain before. The bundles were a huge success from the start providing exactly what we were desiring, and surely it has actually gotten easier to get a bundle done now that they have so much more presence and pull.

It just seems that the more successful they have gotten the less effort they have put in, which for a business built on consumer goodwill is not a great image to have.

It also makes it seem all the more unfair for the developers that actually do put the effort in to make the ports and then get them in on time that such exceptions are made when other developers can instead sell a guarantee, or just bypass it altogether by releasing their wares in a non cross-platform bundle.

Quoting: berarmaSteam is getting a lot of praise here, and the others get a lot of criticism like this. I'd say a lot of games on Steam are there thanks to HIB, Unity, and individuals pushing for it, like the porters, Ryan and others. Valve's interest in GNU/Linux is totally selfish compared to those others that are really pushing, IMHO.

To be fair, Steam does get plenty of criticism on GoL. Largely from me. ;)

Quoting: berarmaWhile I think HIB could do better and I will push for that, I wouldn't be too hard but rather have a lot of respect for what they do.

We all have a lot of respect for what they do. That is why we are all here talking about them in the first place. That does not mean that we will not criticize when we see fault; we respect them enough to take them seriously, and that is actually the greatest praise any institution can get.

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My main problem here is that all of Humble Bundles' previous forays into murky waters have always been met by the same people saying that "at least the Humble Indie Bundles will stay the same!"

A lot of people have either accepted or justified other questionable moves done by Humble Bundle by extolling the virtues of the magical "HIB" label. Well, now it appears that the "HIB" label is not the wondrous protective charm some might have hoped. It also has room for uncomfortable compromise.

I am actually not that bothered by the specific details involved in this particular instance; as long as the games do get ported it is not all that harmful. It is the trends involved that I find concerning.

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Quoting: oldrocker99I know a lot of people love to hate on Canonical (when it is so simple to avoid Unity annoyances by simply installing a different *buntu flavour), but IMHO, Canonical has been good for the GNU/Linux world.

Not that I want to start an unrelated flame war here, but I really do have to question your understanding if you think that Unity is the only reason people tend to be distrustful or suspicious of Canonical; if you do, then you are just plain kidding yourself. And there is a world outside of the *buntu family, and not every member inside that family is even treated equal in the first place.

Which is all beside the point, as this article has nothing to do with Ubuntu or Canonical in the first place.

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Running with Scissors AMA on reddit:

There is something big coming regarding P2 but that's the only hint for now, we are just getting started on something while wrapping up the Linux and Mac updates, and workshop implementation.

After I joined RWS I carried on updating Eternal Damnation for a while after in my spare time, it never quite got finished but once workshop hits I'll be finishing that up and getting it onto workshop at some point. It was really quite progressed from the original release.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1y9i9c/we_are_running_with_scissors_creators_of_the/ [External Link]

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To be fair to Torchlight, not having a face was about the only problem I had with the game besides a problem with my graphics drivers that the game exposed, which was subsequently fixed upstream. The face bug was also fixed eventually; turns out it was a problem with just one line of code.

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As a Canadian this will not affect me, but damn. :(

It's Humble enforced Austerity.

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