Category: Editorial

Leadwerks the game engine and visual editor that successfully crowdfunded itself to come to Linux has been shown off a bit.

With Assault Android Cactus now available on Steam Early Access and via a Humble Store Widget on AssaultAndroidCactus.com (Includes DRM free Steam key, and optional Deluxe edition bonuses), I thought I'd share why this cutely styled sci-fi game caught my eye.

Valve has revealed the specifications for the different range of Steam Machines that they will use for the 300 beta units.

The Funding Crowd reaches its 20th instalment with this very same article, the first ever to be crowd sourced.

Sad news for you folks, MyGameCompany the creators of the Dirk Dashing series and supporters of GOL is to shut its doors.

Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.

So folks it may or may not be coming, but Valve has now officially filed for a trademark on Half-Life 3.

This is a PSA on behalf of all the cheapskate gamers out there. Please read carefully this new instalment of The Cheapskate's Corner so you know where to find the best deals at the lowest possible price.

Valve has unveiled the final announcement and it's a controller and it's a very peculiar looking device.

WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine (Wwise) is an audio library game developers can use license to use in their games.

So AMD has announced a low level graphics API that will be cross platform (no actual platforms stated yet though). This will make things very interesting that's for sure.

The Funding Crowd goes on, at the rhythm our tightly scheduled lifes allows. But soon things are going to change...

Valve have announced SteamOS, their own operating system based on Debian Linux that will be placed on a variety of gaming machines due for release in 2014.

So with the dust settling in about Valve's new SteamOS it's time to take a quick think about it all.

So IndieGameStand the website which used to be all about a new pay-what-you-want and charity supporting game sale every 96 hours has officially launched a full game store.

SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

After last week's absence The Cheapskate's Corner is back with lots of new bundles and sales for you!

A new section of Steam's website has opened with a countdown that will end on Monday with the first of three announcements for Steam in the living room.

Not something I usually do but this is a good cause, Unity is still missing having it's actual editor on Linux!

Gabe Newell owner of Valve the company behind Steam did a keynote at LinuxCon 2013 inside is a video and the info.