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Planet Explorers Heading To Steam Early Access This Month
7 February 2014 at 10:27 pm UTC

hmm it was 1.8GB download for me only.
anyway that size isnt any noteworthy for todays games.
everything below 5GB is considered as small imo.

Little Racers STREET Top Down Racer Interview
3 February 2014 at 7:49 pm UTC

cant wait ... insta buy for me.. i remember playing those types of games old times and thats a perfect modernisation for these types of games.

Cradle Open-World Adventure RPG Game Using CryEngine Coming To Linux
2 February 2014 at 4:12 pm UTC

wait... what... another game that ditched unigine?
i remember few years ago they were doing this on unigine with a sure linux support in mind..
ohh well..

View video on youtube.com


edit: youtube embedding doesnt seem to work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y270FSjykBc


edit2: now im confused.. this seems other company is doing game with the same name... hmm

Steamworks API From Valve Now Includes The VR API
29 January 2014 at 5:16 pm UTC

i personally think that VR might be a thing in about few years maybe...
current Occulus Rift VR doesnt seem to have the needed accuracy and quality, but its a good start.

if there will be competition and demand for those devices, prices will go down as well.

it might be just another hype for short period of time though.. just like 3D was/is ..

New Rust Survival Game Update Out In The Wild
25 January 2014 at 7:09 am UTC

nice changelog... im personaly still waiting the fix for jumpy mouse issues and option to increase FoV... if those are solved i can return.

Alienware's Steam Machine Won't Be Customizable
24 January 2014 at 11:58 am UTC

   
not really.. most people dont know how to build PC's so they buy pre-built and pay more because of that.
if the box is smaller, then ofc it costs a little more.

yeah some of the steam machines seemed to be way too overpriced but some were fairly good..
people like you, me and many more ofc will buy PC piece by piece and then install it.. and get a lot cheaper that way.. but we are only a minority i think.

also think about that.. lets say console costs $499 and average steam machine $699 (not talking about those $2k ones) average console game costs $60, while on steam you get away with $40 in most cases... that means with 10 titles you already have the same amount of money wasted on console.

Free Valve Games For Debian Developers
23 January 2014 at 9:48 am UTC

ohh my... 5 pages of DRM debate.
if you dont like it then dont use it imo... simple as that.
i like to have a centralized software that keeps my games in sync and "prevents" multiplayer games from hackers, adds matchmaking, achievments, tracks game hours and what not..

i dont download games from humblebunde page usualy, because i hate to keep them up to date and following everything to see if there are new updates.

yes desura offers similar thing for game updates and has drm freee games, but its far from perfect.

yes its sometimes frustrating when servers are down and you cannot play, but i take that every time before some random sites to download games and keep them up to date.. those random sites might shut down and you loose your game if you have lost your backups also.


to the topic:
nice to see that they are giving their games to the ones who deserve them :)
thats how you build a community!

SteamLUG January Events
12 January 2014 at 1:13 pm UTC

Recorded First Round of Nuclear Dawn also:
View video on youtube.com

Had to bail out after that round though sadly. Got some Visitors.

Steam Runtime Changes Inbound For Linux
12 January 2014 at 2:58 am UTC

you are worried about ETS2 that cant play mp3 files?
you have operating system that can play those streams outside of the game.. why is that a problem to play a game and listen music at the same time? 

just my thoughts on that.

they can focus on more content instead of trying to figure out the copyright stuff because anyone can play their favorite radio streams outside the game anyway

my 2 cents

AMD Catalyst 13.11 Linux Beta V9.95 Driver Is Out
10 January 2014 at 7:13 pm UTC

i guess the 13.11 betas are based on 2013 november branch..
the 2013 december driver is marked as stable but the dev branch is still using november..
so once its stable they will push it to 2014 and january or february..making it 14.1 or 14.2

i think thats the logic? 

now how logical are the nvidia numbers? those seem tottaly random.