Gaming Leftovers
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Alien: Isolation heading to Mac and Linux next week
In my day, Mac games were limited to playing tag in your raincoat, so it's always great to see the Macintosh's relatively tiny game library expand. The latest big-budget developer to offer a Mac version of one of their games is Creative Assembly, whose Alien: Isolation is coming to Mac—and Linux—next week.
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Insurgency FPS Now Has The Linux Port On Their Official Trello Todo List
The FPS junky in me approves of this, the developers of Insurgency added the Linux port to their official Trello todo list, and it looks like it already runs.
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Valve Goes After Microsoft: You Don't Need to Ever Build a DirectX 12 Game
Vulkan is a new API from the Khronos Group, the same developers who are also working on OpenGL. Their efforts are now supported by Valve as well, and they are saying that developers won't ever need to make a DirectX 12 game.
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New Steam controller, Sherlock Holmes on ScummVM, and more open gaming news
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Old PC games rendered unplayable thanks to Windows update
In the age of the digital download, DRM is a hot-button issue for video game players. The concept of ownership was cut-and-dried in the days of physical media, but there’s far more room for debate now that digital distribution services like Steam make up such a large proportion of the wider marketplace.
And while the concept of DRM is nothing new, it’s the age of the practice that might lead to some older games becoming unplayable — thanks to a new update Microsoft has released for systems running running Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
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Vendetta Online 1.8.350 3D Space Combat MMORPG Gets 21 New Missions
Guild Software has had the pleasure of announcing that their popular, cross-platform 3D space combat MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), Vendetta Online, has been updated to version 1.8.350.
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