Leftovers: Gaming
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Steam Machines: Too Little Too Late?
As someone who doesn't have a gaming rig, the idea of a streamlined, Linux-powered box that I can plug into my television console-style is really appealing. However, as time as gone on, my excitement for such a device is diminishing rapidly. As the months roll on without Steam Machines lining the store shelves of major electronics retailers, the window of opportunity for Valve to get SteamOS into gamers' living rooms is shrinking at an increasing rate.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance, A CryEngine Game Linux Version Still Happening, Not Due Until After Windows
Kingdom Come: Deliverance does sound like it will be amazing, but sadly the Linux version is far off, and will be quite a wait after the Windows version.
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Survival Game 'Rust' Fixes Linux Issues, Some Thoughts
Rust from Facepunch Studios (notable for Garry's Mod) should once again work on Linux thanks to some more Unity engine updates, I've tested it and it works for me.
It may not work for all of you, but it now works for me. They are using the bleeding-edge Unity 5 game engine, and with it comes constant breakage.
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Lords of Xulima Complex and Fun RPG Lands on Linux with a Patch
Lords of Xulima, a complex and interesting RGP developed and published by Numantian Games on Steam, has just received a patch enabling Linux users to play the game as well.
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Crimsonland Arrives On Linux 11 Years After Windows, Promises Top Down Bloody Action
Crimsonland is finally on Linux after 11 years of being on other platforms (originally released in 2003), so is it any good? We take a look and create a bloody mess.
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Freaking Meatbags Released For Linux, Some Thoughts On It
Freaking Meatbags by WildFactor is finally launching out of Early Access on Steam with a day one Mac and Linux release as their first indie title. I would assume their second game in-production, Machiavillain, will follow suit in a similar fashion when it is ready.
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Watch out DirectX 12! Valve, Khronos to reveal next-gen OpenGL successor at GDC
It's a great time to be alive if you're a fanatic about the particulars of various performance-boosting graphics APIs. AMD's Mantle is here, Microsoft's DirectX 12 is coming with Windows 10, and at GDC in early March we'll hear the first news about a successor to the open-source, cross-platform OpenGL API.
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New Steam for Linux Client Fixes OpenGL Crash During Screenshots and Video Recording
Valve has released a fresh Steam Beta client and the devs have made quite a few improvements to the application and they have implemented a couple of Linux-specific features.
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Wine Developers Are Still Working On Direct3D 10/11 Support
Besides covering the shortcomings of Gallium3D's Direct3D 9 implementation for Wine, Stefan Dösinger of CodeWeavers also provided a look at the overall state of Wine's Direct3D/graphics support while he was in Brussels at FOSDEM.
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