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RimWorld Space Colony Sim Alpha 2 Is Now Out
By , 1 March 2014 at 10:42 am UTC
Cool! $30 and Paypal. Nice joke.
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By Half-Shot, 1 March 2014 at 10:13 am UTC
Quoting: EdwardMy comparison between mesa 10.2 (oibaf ppa- kubuntu x64) and latest catalyst with tf2 and amd 7950.
Catalyst:
Vsync cause input lag
AA cause lag
During the game startup from the video to menu the loading take ages.
Some game have trouble with some missing .so file (but i used the steam installer from the site not that one from ubuntu repo. I still need to check if the repo solve the error)

All problem that I don't have with the mesa driver. Off course the frame rate is better with the catalyst. But if the driver can stay on 60 fps who care.

Exactly, I can't tell you how many times catalyst has sodded up my install but its good to have a no hassle driver. The frames aren't great for me but its good enough that I can live with a little less graphics settings if it means the driver just works.
Chucks Challenge 3D Puzzle game Now On Steam For Linux, Our Review
By Liam Dawe, 1 March 2014 at 9:58 am UTC
I have adjusted the title to better fit now.
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By , 1 March 2014 at 9:53 am UTC
My comparison between mesa 10.2 (oibaf ppa- kubuntu x64) and latest catalyst with tf2 and amd 7950.
Catalyst:
Vsync cause input lag
AA cause lag
During the game startup from the video to menu the loading take ages.
Some game have trouble with some missing .so file (but i used the steam installer from the site not that one from ubuntu repo. I still need to check if the repo solve the error)

All problem that I don't have with the mesa driver. Off course the frame rate is better with the catalyst. But if the driver can stay on 60 fps who care.
Chucks Challenge 3D Puzzle game Now On Steam For Linux, Our Review
By Liam Dawe, 1 March 2014 at 9:30 am UTC
Quoting: HamishThis is not new to Linux, only to Steam:
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/chucks-challenge-3d-released-on-desura.2699

Well now, bit annoying when publishers claim it is new *sigh*
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By DanBrownlee, 1 March 2014 at 8:13 am UTC
Magicite came out recently and is currently in Early Access on Steam.
View video on youtube.com
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By , 1 March 2014 at 7:55 am UTC
Dreamfall will be out in 2014 be waiting for this game for years.
Defently one of the biggest games on linux in 2014.
View video on youtube.com
Shadowrun: Dragonfall RPG DLC Released For Linux
By , 1 March 2014 at 7:47 am UTC
I have played about 30 Min on the Linux version and it works great.
Chucks Challenge 3D Puzzle game Now On Steam For Linux, Our Review
By Hamish, 1 March 2014 at 4:22 am UTC
Nothing To Hide, A Game Of Anti-Stealth & It's Open Source
By HadBabits, 1 March 2014 at 4:22 am UTC
Looks neat, I'll check it out :)
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By , 1 March 2014 at 4:09 am UTC
A few more benchmarks:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_ubuntu_trusty&num=1

this driver has been improving leaps and bounds since 3.11, I can only imagine how good it will get later down the road!

I might even recommend AMD steam machines once they are released :D
Deadfall Adventures FPS Linux Beta Released
By , 1 March 2014 at 3:44 am UTC
go nordic games!

Nice how they also support linux before mac.

Quoting: Joshua MurphyI would download it for the free weekend but 7 gigs is too much just for it to disappear in 3 days

umm... the free weekend is to try it and it doesn't disappear if you decide to keep it.
Carmageddon Reincarnation New Video & Early Acces Release In March
By , 1 March 2014 at 3:36 am UTC
oh man so waiting for this
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By oldrocker99, 1 March 2014 at 2:27 am UTC
Ooooh! I bought X:COM Enemy Unknown for Windows last year and it only a matter of time before it shows up in my Steam queue! Besides that, there's War For The Underworld (still in bedrock beta), Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, and Torment coming(all Kickstarted games)this year.

2013 was The Year Of Linux Gaming. 2014 is when the floodgates open.
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By AskQuestionsLater, 1 March 2014 at 2:10 am UTC
Limit Theory (http://ltheory.com/) looks very interesting and already has high graphical fidelity, procedurally generated spaceships, planets, universe, etc.

Check out the latest update on Youtube at View video on youtube.com
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By , 1 March 2014 at 2:09 am UTC
jesus though, a 7950 should be racing through Portal at much, much faster than "just below 30 fps"
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By , 1 March 2014 at 1:38 am UTC
QuoteThe team behind the open source radeon drivers, the Linux kernel and the various bits that go with it are doing a great job of maintaining drivers and getting them up to spec with OpenGL and AMD's newest hardware and it's fairly obvious that radeon are making more progress than AMD.


Well, most of the radeon devs are actually AMD employees.
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By , 1 March 2014 at 1:30 am UTC
Quoting: AnonymousThe open source drivers work well with valve games such as CS:source and l4d2

They cannot seem to handle dota2 well though, radeonsi latest git,kernel,xorg,mesa,atidri and it's clay animation unless turned down to the lowest settings.

however it really handles l4d2 well with the exception of some odd artifacting (coaches head has void where his hair should be) but much smoother than catalyst at roughly 1/10 to 1/4 the frames but feels faster (considering catalyst cranks out 300 fps and stutters, 1/10 to 1/4 is VERY playable as it's ~30-~80 fps. max eye candy @ full HD)

the power management is sorta there, but it still likes to get it up to high profile and bake your card but it seems semi-working.

It really pains me that usually the strong suit of the OSS driver is the weakness of the blob and vice versa.
You are lucky if your system can run games at 300 fps with Catalyst, I'm stuck at around 50 fps in Dota with drops to 20. I'm using an HD 7850, which runs dota at the fps limit on Windows.
TopWare Interactive Give More Details About Two Worlds 2 & Other Games
By , 1 March 2014 at 1:27 am UTC
I am all for the Native ports, but they can stick their winemulated versions up their butts.
Also there is already winemulated games on Steam.

CID The Dummy http://store.steampowered.com/app/45900/
Oniken http://store.steampowered.com/app/252010/

If enough people buy this stuff, you can kiss goodbye alot of native ports. We will be back to how
it was 2 years ago, except the games will be bottled and we wont even be able to control wine ourselves.

Also From the wine devs themselves: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU5MjA

"In general on a dual-core machine running Wine you can expect about 50% performance under Linux with Wine compared to directly running Windows, but it's largely dependent on the actual game and driver. When using the NVIDIA binary Linux driver you can more likely expect around 60% the performance of Windows or if using the open-source Radeon driver there is a 30~40% performance expectation."

You wanna pay full price for a product that performs 50% worse on average?
Deadfall Adventures FPS Linux Beta Released
By Ilya, 1 March 2014 at 1:03 am UTC
When they said: "This is not a beta version since we need especially feedback on a wide variety of hardware configurations." I think they really meant that it was still Alpha.
Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
By Xpander, 1 March 2014 at 12:33 am UTC
nice work Half-Shot
great to see the drivers are improving.

but. as i see you have high end card (7950) which costs ~260€ here and you get 25 fps in TF2.
thats still not good enough. with ~120€ nvidia 650TI boost you can get at least twice this framerate, not to mention same priced 670 or 760 ...

still long way to go in terms of performance.
but at least games are now somewhat playable with super high end ati cards it seems
Carmageddon Reincarnation New Video & Early Acces Release In March
By philip550c, 28 February 2014 at 11:59 pm UTC
I want the old version on linux
Steam Hardware Survey Changes, Now Split Per-Platform
By , 28 February 2014 at 11:34 pm UTC
Whoops, I am not logged in, so second post. Just looked at the logs again and it was 1.41%, not 1.20% (I calculated 1.42% just now), so strike the above.

And I see others have commented that the total of the combined OSs is missing 0.10%, so the gap of 0.07% could be explained by that.
Deadfall Adventures FPS Linux Beta Released
By Orkultus, 28 February 2014 at 11:30 pm UTC
worked pretty well, although mouse movement while aiming was very...staggery.
Steam Hardware Survey Changes, Now Split Per-Platform
By , 28 February 2014 at 11:25 pm UTC
We were talking about that two days ago in #steamlug. If you calculate it by the amount of Linux Other, which is 39%, from the visible Linux entries of 0.86%, you get only 0.34% on top.

Together that makes 1.20%, rounding errors can not explain the gap to 1.34%.. or did they just round the visible entries to 1% and added the Linux Other of 0.34%?

Also where did you get the number 1.11% from?
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By DrMcCoy, 28 February 2014 at 11:21 pm UTC
SOMA is high on my "Looking forward" list as well, but the little life-action teaser clips actually made me wish it was an FMV game. :/

Luckily, it looks like the new Tex Murphy game will fill all my need for cheesy FMV ham. :D

And then's the RPG trifecta of Wasteland 2, Divinity: Original Sin and Pillars of Eternity announced for this year (altough I'd bet that the latter will be pushed to 2015). And in 2015, Torment: Tides of Numenera. :)

Also (apart from the onces you already named): Unrest, Harvest, The Maker's Eden, Gods Will Be Watching, Tangiers, Among the Sleep, Dreamfall Chapters, Lords of Xulima, The Diviner, ...

Damn, that's really quite a lot...
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By , 28 February 2014 at 10:45 pm UTC
A bit OT! But I'm so upset about Humble Bundle right now.

This IDIOTS have removed Amazon Payment & Google for European Users with introducing that **** of regional pricing **** in the humble store.
Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
By FrasierCrane, 28 February 2014 at 10:44 pm UTC
Tesla Effect, the kickstarted new Tex Murphy adventure, will also be out soon – judging by the newest update video in April:
View video on youtube.com
I don't know if the Linux version will be out simultaneously with the Windows and Mac version but I think it won't be too long afterwards.
A Call For Help, Help GamingOnLinux Grow
By Liam Dawe, 28 February 2014 at 10:30 pm UTC
Quoting: DrMcCoyEh, what the hell, it's the end of the month and I got a few Euros left for a change, so I went ahead and donated £10. Not much, I know, but it's about as much as I can give in my current situation.

I don't always agree with you, but I do appreciate the work you're doing here.

You have my public thanks, we do not always agree, but that is what GOL is here for, so all Linux gamers have a voice.

I sent you an email about it.
A Call For Help, Help GamingOnLinux Grow
By DrMcCoy, 28 February 2014 at 10:25 pm UTC
Eh, what the hell, it's the end of the month and I got a few Euros left for a change, so I went ahead and donated £10. Not much, I know, but it's about as much as I can give in my current situation.

I don't always agree with you, but I do appreciate the work you're doing here.
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