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Natural Selection 2 developers tease more Linux info!
By Xodetaetl, 5 July 2013 at 6:47 am UTC
Hm, finally a new multiplayer FPS for my yearly LANs with old friends ?
Wait... it's another fussing Steam exclusive ! :(
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By muntdefems, 4 July 2013 at 7:03 pm UTC
Quoting: s_dGreat article, Munt!  Just noticed that the "Race To Mars" text URL in the descriptive paragraph is very broken :-)

Ooops, fixed! :S:

The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By s_d, 4 July 2013 at 6:46 pm UTC
Quoting: SteamPenguinVery very suprised there was no mention of Frontiers, in the in the running section, especially as its doing so well.

Send a PM to Speedster to get it included :)
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By s_d, 4 July 2013 at 6:45 pm UTC
Great article, Munt!  Just noticed that the "Race To Mars" text URL in the descriptive paragraph is very broken :-)
GOL's Minecraft building competition like no other!
By Liam Dawe, 4 July 2013 at 4:46 pm UTC
New project, no existing stuff of course to allow for new joiners to get in on it. Close date extended, the only rule is don't cheat which should go without saying.
GOL's Minecraft building competition like no other!
By xXNekoYujiXx, 4 July 2013 at 3:54 pm UTC
I want in on this competition.Can it be an existing project or a new one?
GOL's Minecraft building competition like no other!
By SteamPenguin, 4 July 2013 at 3:30 pm UTC
my first video is on the forum http://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/363
Project 64 Nintendo 64 emulator is open sourced!
By frostwork, 4 July 2013 at 2:38 pm UTC
haven't looked into the sourcecode, but I doubt it is written with portability in mind.
Would be nice oc to have two different n64 emulators but mupen64plus is portable and works fine since years.
Space Sim MOBA GoD Factory: Wingmen Reaches For LINUX Gamers!
By , 4 July 2013 at 11:59 am UTC
Hi there s_d,

Thanks for commenting! To answer your questions, when we started the Kickstarter 6 weeks ago, the Platform support was still uncertain. GoD Factory is not just an upcoming title; it's a full franchise we wish to build upon. If we are to commit our Wingmen to a platform, we wish to bring the full franchise on it. And just like you, our energies are finite. So we had to make sure we had the resources to pull it off and if it would reward.

Six weeks ago, we didn’t know about that. God Factory: Wingmen being our first major project, we could not tell how much energies it would require to bring our games LINUX, and since the LINUX community is relatively recent, we didn’t knew how much it would reward to spend it there. We didn’t want to lie and say we would support a LINUX while we weren’t sure we could pull it off, so we just said we were considering it to see if LINUX users were interested in buying our game.

We quickly got requests from the LINUX community, so we tried to pull a LINUX build and thanks to Unity3D it appeared that 95% of the work was already done, thus there was no reason to hesitate further and so we announced the LINUX release two weeks ago. Unluckily, the remaining 5% is vital to the alpha preview and that’s why it is PC only at the moment.

We published this article now because, as you say we must ride the momentum and there is no higher momentum than the last three days of a Kickstarter.

Once again, thanks for your interest and I really hope this will respond to your concerns. Should you have any further question don’t hesitate and we’ll gladly respond!

François Chéné,
Intern programmer at Nine Dots Studio
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By , 4 July 2013 at 5:11 am UTC
Nice! Will buy it once I get some money.
Space Sim MOBA GoD Factory: Wingmen Reaches For LINUX Gamers!
By s_d, 4 July 2013 at 4:28 am UTC
The alpha gameplay looks fantastic, very colorful... but I have to wonder.  Why announce this in the final two days of their Kickstarter?  Why not pick up hundreds of Linux gamers in the first week instead?

I saw this title on Kickstarter several weeks ago, watched the pitch video, only to be sorely disappointed to see "Linux is also a possibility, but no promise as of yet."  So, not only did I refuse to pledge, but also why bother spreading the word about the game to anyone else?  My energies are finite, and we see many wonderful looking games on Kickstarter which promise us Linux support, or at the bare minimum are able to divulge a stretchgoal price, so why waste this energy on projects that choose not to commit to us?  It's frustrating.

That said, I can't really blame the devs for coming to our way of thinking eventually, but I do think it's a damn shame that they were unable to avail themselves of our enthusiasm early in the campaign, when the momentum is so crucial.
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By Orkultus, 4 July 2013 at 4:21 am UTC
CS:GO and Nuclear Dawn next! .. Also i am hoping that Dota makes it soon!.

-orkultus-
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By , 3 July 2013 at 9:49 pm UTC
Quoting: kabamaruIs there a L4D 1 for Linux? I'm asking because Portal, Half-Life 2 and maybe other non-beta games are available for Linux but Steam doesn't list them as Linux compatible. It's like they don't want us to buy their games or something.
I think l4d1 will not be ported, because you can play the l4d1 missions in l4d2.
Interstellar Marines released in Early Access on Steam
By Orkultus, 3 July 2013 at 4:32 pm UTC
Quoting: SpeedsterI'm hoping this one turns out well too, was backing it on their kickstarter that failed to hit an ambitious goal. Any more details available on the roadmap, in particular the parts affecting Linux support?
They had told me something about "Middleware" that didn't work on Linux. Im not sure what kind of Middleware, but they said they need to figure out how to get it working correctly.

-Orkultus-
Interstellar Marines released in Early Access on Steam
By Speedster, 3 July 2013 at 4:26 pm UTC
I'm hoping this one turns out well too, was backing it on their kickstarter that failed to hit an ambitious goal. Any more details available on the roadmap, in particular the parts affecting Linux support?
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By Xpander, 3 July 2013 at 1:03 pm UTC
Quoting: alexThunderHm, I got a Left 4 Dead 2 Beta and Left 4 Dead 2 (Beta) now. What's the right one? :)
Left 4 Dead (Beta) is the correct one
that means its using the main game catalogue (non-beta), but the linux client is still with beta quality
you can now join to non-beta servers
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By alexThunder, 3 July 2013 at 12:12 pm UTC
Hm, I got a Left 4 Dead 2 Beta and Left 4 Dead 2 (Beta) now. What's the right one? :)
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By Sabun, 3 July 2013 at 11:36 am UTC
Awesome! I hope this means it'll stop updating so much. The Beta kept downloading something nearly everyday for me. Do the EMS mods work on Linux?

Btw, thanks Liam for using my video :D
Interstellar Marines released in Early Access on Steam
By sobkas, 3 July 2013 at 11:25 am UTC
Quoting: KristianIsn't this the game that was gonna have Linux support because it was using Unigine but then it switched to Unity and the Linux version was canned because Unity didn't support Linux and that time?
You are thinking about Primal Carnage.
They switched from Unigine to UDK.
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By kabamaru, 3 July 2013 at 11:04 am UTC
Is there a L4D 1 for Linux? I'm asking because Portal, Half-Life 2 and maybe other non-beta games are available for Linux but Steam doesn't list them as Linux compatible. It's like they don't want us to buy their games or something.
Interstellar Marines released in Early Access on Steam
By Kristian, 3 July 2013 at 11:00 am UTC
Isn't this the game that was gonna have Linux support because it was using Unigine but then it switched to Unity and the Linux version was canned because Unity didn't support Linux and that time?
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By Kristian, 3 July 2013 at 10:57 am UTC
So is there anything left in beta now?
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By , 3 July 2013 at 10:28 am UTC
View video on youtube.com
Here is a german gameplay of the beta on Linux
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By Xpander, 3 July 2013 at 8:29 am UTC
Quoting: hero900the bad thing is you need to re-download 13 GB
no, just ~7.5GB, 13GB will be the final size when stuff is unpacked after download
Left 4 Dead 2 infects Linux as it's out of Beta!
By hero900, 3 July 2013 at 8:25 am UTC
the bad thing is you need to re-download 13 GB
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By SteamPenguin, 3 July 2013 at 6:52 am UTC
Very very suprised there was no mention of Frontiers, in the in the running section, especially as its doing so well.
GOL's Minecraft building competition like no other!
By Qantourisc, 3 July 2013 at 6:12 am UTC
I'd love to join, but I have software to build :/
Might come in for a chat though :p
Interstellar Marines released in Early Access on Steam
By Orkultus, 3 July 2013 at 6:08 am UTC
Quoting: hero900i think i can get a steam key i already bought this long time ago from the website
 Should be in the edit private information section in your interstellar marines account. I got my keys, and added them to steam.

-Orkultus-
Interstellar Marines released in Early Access on Steam
By hero900, 3 July 2013 at 4:06 am UTC
i think i can get a steam key i already bought this long time ago from the website
The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)
By Ratman, 2 July 2013 at 10:16 pm UTC
Project Sweat has canceled its funding.
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