Wouldn't a more accurate headline be something along the lines of "Percentage of Linux respondents drops on Steam survey in October"? I mean, the Steam Hardware Survey has very little to do with actual market-share percentage and it's certainly not the point of the survey.

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I've been beta testing the Linux version and apart from being a fantastic port with zero issues (for me at least), the game itself is also great fun and highly addictive. Definitely a must-buy this Halloween!

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Quoting: drvictor666

Quoting: Cybolic"Tether" also happens to be the name of my musical project [External Link], which I named for the same reason ;)

Man, really like your stuff, gonna listen to it throughout today. I can totally imagine the top-most track, Reappear, playing during the closing credits of this game ^_^

Cool! Thanks a lot :D I hope you like the rest as well - it does a bit of genre-hopping ;)

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Oh yes, this does look promising! Interestingly, "Tether" is also related to Linux in that the STS-75 NASA space shuttle mission [External Link]'s purpose was to carry the Tethered Satellite System into orbit and the STS-75 was the first NASA mission program to run on the Linux kernel ;)
"Tether" also happens to be the name of my musical project [External Link], which I named for the same reason ;)

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Quoting: Hori[...] i don't think you can give it controller support.

You might be surprised ;)
View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: Crystal Dagger[...] keypad for gaming, like the ones from razer/logitech, specially because there are no "out of the box" native drivers for those [...]

The Roccat Nyth mouse will get you halfway there! It has 12 modular side buttons and roughly 3 extra on the top, all configurable through the fantastic Linux driver, which is an open source project by Stefan Achatz officially supported and assisted by Roccat. I highly recommend it!

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Quoting: MyeulC

Quoting: manero666It would be great if Steam could give us the ability to launch wine games through the Linux Client, without switching between clients every time.

IIRC, there was some discussion about making a library that would allow windows games to communicate with native steam, but I don't know its status, nor do I remember its name.

I remember that, but it was by definition against Steams policy, so I never tried it. Unfortunately, such support would have to come from Valve.

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Oh look! It's Michael Biehn! Glad to see his likeness on a non MGS or FarCry game ;)

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Quoting: HohlraumCurious what other people's thoughts on how such a disproportionate number of indie games go the retro graphics route. [...]

I think it's a combination of an honest love of the art style (rose-tinted or not), a higher focus on game mechanics and the fact that it's quite a bit more difficult to compete with AAA games if one chooses a more photo-realistic style instead.
Personally (though I haven't yet released any games), it's because I will always miss my Amiga.

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I would imagine messing with consumers like this can have serious implications for the viability of a game's marketing, so I hope there are at least some repercussions within companies when developers/artists/tech support people say these kind of things to press.

It's pretty frustrating; I mean, if a developer or level designer on, say, the next Titanfall came out and said that they don't think the game is coming to the PS4 even though it's been announced, I'm sure heads would roll - I wish the Linux audience would get the same respect.

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