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.
An online car racing game that PC Gamer voted "Best racing game of all time" has hit Linux in the form of an alpha version that uses Wine.
Democracy 3 is now available for pre-order which comes with the beta version, beware though the port is not done by the developer so we may see issues like we did with Gratuitous Space Battles and lack of updates and DLC.
It's been a while but The Funding Crowd is finally back! Here come all you need to know about the crowdfunding of Linux games.
So two bits of Steam news for you, Valve has put 64bit support for Linux games into Steam now on the official non-beta client and also announced family sharing of games.
It seems 4A Games the developers of Metro: Last Light are singing Linux's praises in a new article posted on Forbes.
The developers of Game Dev Tycoon have finally detailed the actual reason on why the Linux version isn't yet on Steam and isn't as up to date as the Windows and Mac versions.
At a PC Gaming World talk at PAX Prime 2013 some big name game developers talk down about DirectX and talk up OpenGL, great stuff and the video is within!
The Cheapskate's Corner is back, and surely you are all expecting another burst of sales and bundles like we had last week, right? Well, we hate to break your hopes but that doesn't seem to be the case this time around...
Well folks a lot of you saw this one coming, GOG.com have officially responded to us to state that Linux support just isn't happening anytime soon. UPDATED