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Steam Update Kills Wine Support
6 Dec 2013 at 9:14 am UTC

yaourt -S wine-git

Starbound 2D Universe Sandbox Game Beta To Start Today
4 Dec 2013 at 10:52 pm UTC

Worked out of box on Arch x86_64 (seems that 64bit version works for me. only problem is that steam ingame doesnt work with 64bit)
runs good and seems pretty interesting so far.

little video also :)

View video on youtube.com

GOL Cast: Being Extremely Tactical in Nuclear Dawn
30 Nov 2013 at 5:39 pm UTC

Its a Great Game.. had a lot of fun yesterday on SteamLUG event.

if anyone interested seeing a ~45min of this event then its here:

View video on youtube.com

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Nearing Beta For Linux
29 Nov 2013 at 4:07 am UTC

according to the linux and mac testing sub there is enemy within as well

http://steamdb.info/sub/35236/#section_apps [External Link]

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Nearing Beta For Linux
28 Nov 2013 at 7:52 pm UTC

there is mac and linux for testing sub
http://steamdb.info/sub/35236/#section_info [External Link]

so yeah its not showing up and cant enable betas also.
probably protected with password.

so im quite sure its coming sooonish

Infection: Last Rites - DNA On Desura's Alpha Fund, Video Included
14 Nov 2013 at 4:29 am UTC

i would also like to see it on steam.
probably will buy from desura for now.. but i really dislike desura client for being so unstable (including desurium)
and i hate to wait for held back updates and lazy to search/install updates from games websites.

anyway the game seems interesting..
keeping my eye on it.

thanks for the video

Nuclear Dawn Open Linux Beta Soon Plus Screenshots!
13 Nov 2013 at 4:21 am UTC

Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3Is this like Savage 2 by chance?
yes.

more like natural selection 2 though, just without aliens.

GOL Cast: Running Away From Mutants in Metro: Last Light
7 Nov 2013 at 6:54 pm UTC

Quick test how much the recording really kills:

View video on youtube.com

not a lot i would say
~5% drop with recording

Metro: Last Light Released for Linux on Steam
6 Nov 2013 at 6:48 pm UTC

Quoting: Quote from scaine
Quoting: Quote from Xpanderonly thing that seems to be missing is the Tesselation

http://www.overclock.net/t/1439965/metro-last-light-windows-vs-linux-graphics-comparison [External Link]
And yet the graphics are absolutely stunning regardless! Actually, in that thread, the lack of tessellation makes most of the textures look more natural. It's the framerates that I find pretty staggering. The fluidity of the game while producing such graphics is really nice. Very smooth.

It's crashed for me twice now, which is disappointing, but I'm about 5 hours in, so it's not particularly prominent. It's just a shame that you can't skip the two minute tunnel intro when you start the game up! Pretty infuriating sitting through that!

Actually, thats not the missing tesselation that makes linux version look more realistic..its the lack of bloom intensity...which is a good thing.
Tesselation however would be nice..it would bring up the stuff on textures... not being a flat texture..

but thats not really a big dealbreaker... the graphics look still amazing.

also you can remove the intro videos..at least most of them
try renaming or removing legal.ogv file

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