Category: Editorial

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is now available and if you take it at face value it doesn't look so good for Linux. I am remaining positive as always about it.

I am pleased to show off a work-in-progress user statistics page that will form part of our new survey system.

Our first official Lego game Lego Minifigures Online was released last summer and it really wasn't all that good, it seems it's now shutting down.

Something I keep seeing repeated in our comments, forum and across other sites is people believing Valve have somehow failed already and are abandoning SteamOS. That's far from the truth of the matter.

Terraria on Linux uses Ethan Lee's FNA project, but the most recent update did not update FNA which Ethan has pointed out is a bit sad. Thankfully, he has a script to do it for you.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux a developer has confirmed on reddit, but they have no idea when by the looks of it.

Strange and sad news, Deep Silver responded to me on twitter to let me know that Dead Island Riptide Definitive Edition and Dead Island Definitive Edition are not coming to Linux. I find this odd going by the recent SteamDB activity.

Interstellar Marines has been in development for a long time and their cash is running dry. They recently announced they are looking for a publisher or investor and they have created a video to showcase the game and make their needs known.

For those that don't know, or forgot, the new Unreal Tournament does in fact have a Linux version. I check on it now and then and it's really starting to come together.

While not officially supported, it turns out that through SteamVR and Valve's OpenVR, the HTC Vive "works" on Linux with some minor permission changes.

Even though I am an Nvidia user, I am really impressed by that has been leaked out about AMD's upcoming Polaris.

It's Sunday and a rare occasion of it not raining where I am so I am away for most of the day. So, what have you been playing this week?

Itch do some wonderful things and the brand new itch.io refinery is a really great way to do Early Access correctly.

Thanks to a few different people for their advice I have finally found a way to stop screen tearing with Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Recently the developer of Stardew Valley announced that Chucklefish (developers of Starbound) would handle porting Stardew Valley to Linux & Mac. Chucklefish have now announced they are working with Sickhead Games​ on the porting process.

The folks Unity3D are currently doing a "HackWeek" when they work on special projects. It looks like the Linux team are working on using SDL instead of X11 directly which will bring Mir & Wayland support amongst other things.

I like a lot of what Itch.io are doing, and it's good to see them do more events to highlight developers and features available on the store.

It's Sunday, I'm extremely tired after a long day and I've been coding away at the new PC Specifications feature for user profiles so I don't really have time to post up news articles tonight (it's getting late). So I ask you: What are you playing, and what do you think?

I have been a little unhappy with how we have been doing our monthly survey for some time, so I am making some steps towards making a better one.

We all like knowing how good a game is overall and having user reviews are nice, but review bombing has become a problem. Steam has made some changes to help.