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Halfway, A Futuristic Turn Based Strategy Is Nearly Ready For Release
By BOYSSSSS, 5 July 2014 at 12:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

Are they releasing the game on Steam, Desura, Humble Store?

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By Ivancillo, 5 July 2014 at 12:49 pm UTC

Wish you be here for at least 5 more!

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By WorMzy, 5 July 2014 at 12:32 pm UTC

Happy birthday!

Warlock 2 Linux Port Looks Almost Done
By jdub, 5 July 2014 at 12:01 pm UTC

It's been downloadable a few weeks now. There does not seem to be an ETA as of yet

GOL Birthday Livestream At 4 PM UTC on Twitch.tv
By DrMcCoy, 5 July 2014 at 11:16 am UTC

QuoteI heard that German viewers were not able to watch the stream, because YouTube's livestreaming is not available in Germany for some reason

The reason is that in Germany, you have to get a broadcast license if you can reach more than 500 people. This law was meant to stop pirate TV and radion stations, but YouTube live streaming was also deemed to be broadcasting.

Quotechatting will be done on the Twitch channel using Twitch's chat. We don't want to bother the IRC people

Just in case people don't know: You can connect to Twitch chat via IRC using your favourite IRC client. Way more comfortable IMHO.

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By Kristian, 5 July 2014 at 11:00 am UTC

Happy birthday GOL and commodore256! :)

Warlock 2 Linux Port Looks Almost Done
By Pinguino, 5 July 2014 at 10:59 am UTC

How come the interface looks almost exactly like the one on Civ V?

Warlock 2 Linux Port Looks Almost Done
By frostwork, 5 July 2014 at 10:39 am UTC

after a 2nd launch the mem requester didn't show up anymore and the game loaded fast.
starting a new game worked fine but I quit after I got some graphical glitches when attacking the wolf den on the right in the tutorial. apart from that a very promising first unofficial binary :)

Warlock 2 Linux Port Looks Almost Done
By frostwork, 5 July 2014 at 10:31 am UTC Likes: 1

Hi!
copy/paste of my reply on:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/205990/discussions/0/46476145275454708/
copying the shared lib into the gamedir and creating the symlink libfmodex-4.44.17.so to libfmodex.so just works! The game starts (slow loading?) and in the title screen I get a requester that my system has low memory (24 GB should be enough ;)).haven't tried playing so far but it looks good!

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By killx_den, 5 July 2014 at 10:28 am UTC

Happy Birthday GoL :)

Warlock 2 Linux Port Looks Almost Done
By BabaoWhisky, 5 July 2014 at 9:46 am UTC

Hi Liam,

It seems to me that this library is available on Debian Jessie or Sid with this package :
libc++1 : https://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/libc++1/filelist

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By fabertawe, 5 July 2014 at 9:44 am UTC

Congratulations Liam and everyone involved! Excellent job :D

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By commodore256, 5 July 2014 at 9:37 am UTC

It's my Birthday too.

GOL Birthday Livestream At 4 PM UTC on Twitch.tv
By Samsai, 5 July 2014 at 9:30 am UTC

Quoting: liamdaweThat would be awesome, I will see if I can download it then and we can stick it on our youtube as well.
Twitch can also upload the VODs directly to YouTube, so we don't have to spend any of our bandwidth to do that. :D

GOL Birthday Livestream At 4 PM UTC on Twitch.tv
By Liam Dawe, 5 July 2014 at 9:28 am UTC

That would be awesome, I will see if I can download it then and we can stick it on our youtube as well.

GOL Birthday Livestream At 4 PM UTC on Twitch.tv
By Samsai, 5 July 2014 at 9:20 am UTC

Quoting: liamdaweSadly I won't be around for it folks as I will be busy doing weekend things with my Son. Hope it's a good one!
I'll set Twitch to record a VOD of the event, so you can watch it afterwards if you feel like it. :)

GOL Birthday Livestream At 4 PM UTC on Twitch.tv
By Liam Dawe, 5 July 2014 at 9:18 am UTC

Sadly I won't be around for it folks as I will be busy doing weekend things with my Son. Hope it's a good one!

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By edo, 5 July 2014 at 9:02 am UTC Likes: 2

Congratulations. With some luck this blog will continue working for a lot more years, at least enough to release the announcement of Half-Life 3 for Linux.

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By Half-Shot, 5 July 2014 at 8:50 am UTC

Yay :D

GamingOnLinux Turns 5 Today!
By JayBeee, 5 July 2014 at 8:45 am UTC Likes: 1

Congratulations! =)

Steam Hardware Survey For June 2014, Linux Is On The Rise
By Hamish, 5 July 2014 at 3:54 am UTC

Quoting: CimerydIf we do a survey, it would be fun to see who used Linux before and recently started gaming, and who played games before and recently switched to Linux for it.

Or those of us who have used Linux and played games on it for quite some time now - we do exist you know. I do accept that we are less interesting from a population change point of view, however.

Steam Hardware Survey For June 2014, Linux Is On The Rise
By Cimeryd, 5 July 2014 at 3:30 am UTC

Article mentions that the survey didn't go out to everyone so we may have more than 1.20%...that can easily go the other way too. In my experience, Linux users are more passionate about their OS, and while "A survey? No thanks, stop wasting my time." is a common answer, I have no problem imagining more people than myself say "Survey? Hell yeah, Linux users REPRESENT!"

About bundling Linux with hardware, that could ruin some twat's school year.

Good to see the arrows pointing upwards. Even a minor percentage shift means a lot of users. If we do a survey, it would be fun to see who used Linux before and recently started gaming, and who played games before and recently switched to Linux for it. In other words, where are the new users coming from?

Metro Redux FPS Games Due At The End Of August
By Cimeryd, 5 July 2014 at 2:56 am UTC

Really enjoyed Last Light when I got to play it. Crashed quite a bit though. Can see me buying Redux versions of both if they get their crap together though.

As for the no Mac thing, I'm hoping that won't catch on. I quite enjoy my Mac, and I enjoy games on it. If anything I'd laugh my nuts off if a great game came out for Mac and Linux, but no Windows. Might be a good thing for the developer too, being bought up to make that game an Xbox flagship and boom, you're Bungie.

Metro Redux FPS Games Due At The End Of August
By linuxslacker, 4 July 2014 at 10:19 pm UTC

Quoting: BestiaLinux versions won't be available in August.

http://enterthemetro.com/uk/news/game_information_uk/return_to_post_apocalyptic_moscow/

QuoteDedicated Linux and SteamOS versions will also release later this year.

sadly i have seen that too. having the linux icon on preorders that wont be a day 0 release is kinda lame. im sure theres alot buying them based on that icon and will be counted as a windows sale since the linux version although has the linux icon in store will be out after release(and that icon will vanish)

Payday 2 Could See A Linux Release In Future, A Developer Noted
By linuxslacker, 4 July 2014 at 10:12 pm UTC

way to disappoint boysssss :(

would be awesome if this came out one of the groups im with(teamIPX) played this and the original to death and still love it. would be great to play with them in the future.

The Most Popular Linux Gaming Articles For June 2014
By Speedster, 4 July 2014 at 10:03 pm UTC

Quoting: Segata Sanshiro:D
Yeah, I guess you should keep writing...

Metro Redux FPS Games Due At The End Of August
By Nezchan, 4 July 2014 at 10:01 pm UTC

So any word if they fixed their FoV issues that was making a lot of people sick yet? it was a problem in the earlier release.

Mount & Blade: Warband Now In Beta For Linux
By compholio, 4 July 2014 at 9:08 pm UTC

Quoting: hummer010
Quoting: GuestWorks nicely on Arch Linux 64 bit, GTX 660, with maximum settings. Alt-tab works in the menues.

Only problems I’ve noticed:
- ~/.mbwarband/ directory instead of ~/.config/mbwarband/
- thinks my keymap is qwerty
- infinite loop at exit, you have to kill the process.
I'm also on Arch 64-bit with nvidia (GTX765M), but I can't get the configuration utility to run. It crashes with a few "wrong ELF class" messages. Did you have to do anything special to get it to run?

I don't have this game, but you might try running "file <name of executable>" and "ldd <name of executable>" to see whether it's a 32-bit program and what libraries it needs.

The Most Popular Linux Gaming Articles For June 2014
By Half-Shot, 4 July 2014 at 8:55 pm UTC

Not that this is competitive but... Hit page 2 and half way down :D