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Open Source FPS/RTS Hybrid Unvanquished Alpha 28 Released
By , 2 June 2014 at 10:31 pm UTC
This reminds me of Jedi Outcast.

The graphics look great, and hopefully the gameplay is equally awesome. Gonna give this a download later and try it out.
Open Source FPS/RTS Hybrid Unvanquished Alpha 28 Released
By FutureSuture, 2 June 2014 at 10:09 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdaweUnvanquished sure is one of the prettiest open source games around isn't it?
Quite right. This makes me wonder why Phoronix hasn't added the game to the Phoronix Test Suite for benchmarking. Is it because the game constantly changes and therefore wouldn't provide a stable means for benchmarking?
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By FutureSuture, 2 June 2014 at 8:32 pm UTC
Quoting: pb
Quoting: FutureSutureI have no idea myself. Haven't bought Trine or Trine 2 yet. Ever since I found out that a new Linux client for Trine was being made, I held off from buying either game so that I could play them in chronological order. Considering that this new Linux client should launch fairly soon, why not just play other games until then?
Yeah, I'll probably do that - just wondering. I like to play the series in order they were made, that's why I was holding back on Trine 2 or Metro:LL. But I can imagine that for some games it doesn't matter much, like Crusader Kings II or Left 4 Dead 2 (or does it? ;-).
I am like that too! Deep Silver bringing Metro 2033 satisfies me greatly, much like what Frozenbyte is doing here. There is money to be made, but I always feel the developers and publishers here care about uniformity as well and that I admire.
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By pb, 2 June 2014 at 8:28 pm UTC
Quoting: FutureSutureI have no idea myself. Haven't bought Trine or Trine 2 yet. Ever since I found out that a new Linux client for Trine was being made, I held off from buying either game so that I could play them in chronological order. Considering that this new Linux client should launch fairly soon, why not just play other games until then?

Yeah, I'll probably do that - just wondering. I like to play the series in order they were made, that's why I was holding back on Trine 2 or Metro:LL. But I can imagine that for some games it doesn't matter much, like Crusader Kings II or Left 4 Dead 2 (or does it? ;-).
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By killx_den, 2 June 2014 at 8:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: JoshI hope this makes my 660 Ti struggle to run on ultra. This looks amazing and I will definitely look into playing this.

No need to wait, just play the Witcher 2 Linux port xD
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By FutureSuture, 2 June 2014 at 8:10 pm UTC
Quoting: AnonymousThese guys and their games are great. I hope they keep making new games too, and continue supporting Linux.
Frozenbyte is currently working on Splot but there is not much information available on the game's webpage so far.
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By Samsai, 2 June 2014 at 8:09 pm UTC
Quoting: pbI have both Trine and Trine 2, but I haven't played either of them so far - should I play them in chronological order (i.e. keep waiting for #1 to get to Steam) or it doesn't matter?
I've played a bit of Trine and 6 hours of Trine 2 and I think you can play Trine 2 just nicely without touching Trine. Of course playing Trine first helps you understand some things like what the Trine actually is and stuff like that, but Trine 2 is enjoyable on its own too.
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By FutureSuture, 2 June 2014 at 8:06 pm UTC
Quoting: pbI have both Trine and Trine 2, but I haven't played either of them so far - should I play them in chronological order (i.e. keep waiting for #1 to get to Steam) or it doesn't matter?
I have no idea myself. Haven't bought Trine or Trine 2 yet. Ever since I found out that a new Linux client for Trine was being made, I held off from buying either game so that I could play them in chronological order. Considering that this new Linux client should launch fairly soon, why not just play other games until then?
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By , 2 June 2014 at 8:04 pm UTC
These guys and their games are great. I hope they keep making new games too, and continue supporting Linux.
Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months
By pb, 2 June 2014 at 8:02 pm UTC
I have both Trine and Trine 2, but I haven't played either of them so far - should I play them in chronological order (i.e. keep waiting for #1 to get to Steam) or it doesn't matter?
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By , 2 June 2014 at 7:52 pm UTC
I hope this makes my 660 Ti struggle to run on ultra. This looks amazing and I will definitely look into playing this.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By , 2 June 2014 at 7:45 pm UTC
OMG! that is awesome news..
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By , 2 June 2014 at 7:24 pm UTC
Can't believe it, so awesome!
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By GoCorinthians, 2 June 2014 at 6:53 pm UTC
Sincerely, I didnt even watch a single trailer of this game because its FPS, but coming to linux I will have it on my STeam library.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By JayBeee, 2 June 2014 at 6:53 pm UTC
Amagad Amagad Amagad Amagad! Now I'm excited. Loved the original game. Have it for my ps3.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By Lapinopl, 2 June 2014 at 6:41 pm UTC
Plese. please make it run just fine and be released at the same day as all the other versions! Two things I'm afraid of right now. Crappy ports( i know new cryengine is "native" but we have yet to see how well it runs) and late ports.
Major Steam Client Beta Update, In-Home Streaming Available To All
By oldrocker99, 2 June 2014 at 5:58 pm UTC
Quoting: HadBabitsIt should also be noted that you currently can only stream from Windows and Mac boxes. Linux hosts have been disabled currently with the intention of fixing some bugs; unfortunately meaning that those only possessing Linux boxes, including myself, are currently out of luck :P

Yup, Steam sez:"Streaming from a Linux host is not yet supported."

Patience, patience.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By killx_den, 2 June 2014 at 5:57 pm UTC
Quoting: Half-ShotGood news but hopefully the game will be as fully featured as the other platforms. Metro: Last Light didn't quite hit it but hopefully if it comes out at the same time there is no need to worry.

The Linux version of Metro LL was ported from the Mac version. And Macs were still on OpenGL 3.x at that time. This year they finally arrived in 2010 with OpenGL 4.0 and right now I think they are on 4.1 so maybe they will make it into 2014 end of the year or something ^^

Anyways there are reasons why the new and polished Metro Redux versions are only on Windows and Linux.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/286690/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

So I don't think there will be missing effects or anything this time.

The trailer looks really nice and I bet the graphics will be awesome. Homefront was pretty linear and had a lot of scripted events, I hope they will change that a bit. The description sounds good so far.

Edit: btw will it have a day 1 Linux version or will it be like Tropico ? :/
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By , 2 June 2014 at 5:35 pm UTC
Can't be worse than the first one. I'll buy it.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By Xpander, 2 June 2014 at 5:35 pm UTC
wooot.. another cryengine game to linux...cant wait to play any of those.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By Half-Shot, 2 June 2014 at 5:27 pm UTC
Good news but hopefully the game will be as fully featured as the other platforms. Metro: Last Light didn't quite hit it but hopefully if it comes out at the same time there is no need to worry.
GOL Cast: Being Part of the Bug Community in Hive
By , 2 June 2014 at 5:25 pm UTC Likes: 2
There are quite a number of tutorial videos available online, that should get everyone up to speed.

I really like dynamic playfield boardgames and Hive looks very interesting. But as you stated, the implementation lacks some polish.

And playing boardgames on a computer or other gaming gear is lots of fun, especially when it comes to games with complex rulesets which the ai is going to handle for you. I recommend Carcassonne (playable online in a Java enabled browser, e.g. at http://brettspielwelt.de/Spiele/Carcassonne/?nation=en ) and there are several different games of Settlers of Catan available for Linux as well.
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By fabertawe, 2 June 2014 at 5:23 pm UTC
Oooh, now I'm excited ^_^
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By minj, 2 June 2014 at 4:47 pm UTC
Looks spectacularly
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By , 2 June 2014 at 4:12 pm UTC
Now that is satisfying news!!...
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By Samsai, 2 June 2014 at 4:09 pm UTC
Wow... Do I need to say anything more?
Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux
By , 2 June 2014 at 3:58 pm UTC
looks good i was wondering abought that since it ran on cryengion cant wait to play.
SteamLUG June Linux Gaming Events
By FutureSuture, 2 June 2014 at 3:31 pm UTC
Unless you do things differently in Australia, your dates are all wrong. The dates are all 1 day after their respective days.
A Developer Of Unity3D Also Speaks Out About OpenGL
By , 2 June 2014 at 2:30 pm UTC
I think the drivers are faulty, but in a different way.

The big concern I have about gfx drivers is that they are tweaked, twisted and shaped around applications, especially games. In my eyes this is the wrong way to fix things.

As it is now, game and engine developers code their stuff for DirectX or AnyGL and relies somewhat on the assumption, that GPU vendors will hack "optimizations" around any quirks your special use case might need for a speedup. Just have a look at how big these drivers got over the years!

As a gamer you might just see the fps increase or enjoy prettier visuals ingame, but is this the right way to handle this?

Wouldn't it be better to have strict and usefull APIs and have the implementors use them correctly instead of dancing around everyone elses faulty code by adding little (or not so little) shortcuts in the driver to fix what most probably wasn't broken in the first place?

The thing is: if a workaround for game A does one thing for game A specifically, how will all the other games benefit from that, if the fix is limited to that single application?
SteamLUG June Linux Gaming Events
By Half-Shot, 2 June 2014 at 2:14 pm UTC
Aplogies for not making recent events, I've been scattered all over the place recently. Shall be coming to the next events as much as possible though,
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