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Fancy winning a copy of the original Postal game?
By , 1 May 2013 at 8:45 pm UTC
ME :)
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Steam's April hardware survey shows poor Linux statistics!
By , 1 May 2013 at 8:40 pm UTC
I would guess the initial numbers was a lot of users trying Steam. They might not have been frequent gamers and probably don't start Steam each and every month.
Steam's April hardware survey shows poor Linux statistics!
By , 1 May 2013 at 8:17 pm UTC
xorg is one to blame so buggy for backwards compatibility i hope Mir jump soon
Steam's April hardware survey shows poor Linux statistics!
By Orkultus, 1 May 2013 at 7:42 pm UTC
True, we haven't been getting a whole lot of new games in Steam for Linux lately. There will be weeks at a time before even 1 new game shows up.
Steam's April hardware survey shows poor Linux statistics!
By , 1 May 2013 at 7:19 pm UTC
Is there something special you need to do to get the survey? I've been using Steam for years and I don't remember ever getting prompted for it.
Steam's April hardware survey shows poor Linux statistics!
By tweakedenigma, 1 May 2013 at 7:12 pm UTC
There appear to be two factors at work here. One being the lack of top tier games and the other appears to be some bugs in the Steam Survey: 
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/2286

I too have noticed this with the survey, I received it once and then never again. So there might be a glitch in it somewhere.
Jack Lumber the supernatural lumberjack now on Steam!
By Orkultus, 1 May 2013 at 5:12 pm UTC
It's on Steam for Linux right now.
Jack Lumber the supernatural lumberjack now on Steam!
By Orkultus, 1 May 2013 at 5:09 pm UTC
"But i love the forest...Shut up Billy!" ... haha epic. I will so buy this just because of the trailer.
Fancy winning a copy of the original Postal game?
By kolito, 1 May 2013 at 4:32 pm UTC
Thank you for the contest :)
http://imgur.com/Ei9o9GV
Starbound reached $1,000,000 in pre-orders
By Sabun, 1 May 2013 at 4:17 pm UTC
Oh man, I was holding back to get this but I just keep reading news about it here and there. I'm finally giving in and buying it... I just hope my close friends buy it too :)
Fancy winning a copy of the original Postal game?
By , 1 May 2013 at 4:03 pm UTC
Fancy winning a copy of the original Postal game?
By , 1 May 2013 at 2:41 pm UTC
me :)
Receiver experimental FPS now on Steam!
By , 1 May 2013 at 9:15 am UTC
Quoting: Bumadarnot sure if its instant death or not, so from 1st shot that hits you, if thats the case I think I would be frustrated really fast.

From what I remember, you do have some kind of threshold, so you can sometimes take a couple of hits before dying.

Really though, this is just a tech demo of how you can implement real gun play mechanics into a game.
Starbound reached $1,000,000 in pre-orders
By Orkultus, 1 May 2013 at 3:10 am UTC
awesome news!
Jack Lumber the supernatural lumberjack now on Steam!
By , 30 April 2013 at 5:47 pm UTC
This one's from Owlchemy, they did Snuggle Truck. Anyone knows if they're planning on releasing that?
Receiver experimental FPS now on Steam!
By Bumadar, 30 April 2013 at 5:31 pm UTC
not sure if its instant death or not, so from 1st shot that hits you, if thats the case I think I would be frustrated really fast.
Jack Lumber the supernatural lumberjack now on Steam!
By Bumadar, 30 April 2013 at 5:24 pm UTC
LOL about the idea and the trailer for sure
Starbound reached $1,000,000 in pre-orders
By Bumadar, 30 April 2013 at 2:44 pm UTC
saw it last night but waited till home from work to see if it would be posted yet.... :)
Starbound reached $1,000,000 in pre-orders
By Liam Dawe, 30 April 2013 at 1:20 pm UTC
Damn you Bumadar I was going to post on this haha, been watching the counter :D

So badly looking forward to this game :D
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By , 29 April 2013 at 10:21 pm UTC
Quoting: mongrolThis looks just like a clone of GameDevStory. A game thats been cloned as many times as Tetris. Still, if its polished it is a refreshing concept even though it does get a bit repetitive. Would be good to hear if theres anything differentiating it from its genetic parent.

Indeed, I thought the same (though I'd forgotten the name so I didn't mention it ;)) -- it does seem to at least improve the formula on a few aspects  -- your start up is much more basic, PC gets more consistent love in this as well, rather than going straight down the crapper after the first set of consoles. They also have better consistency with game types, the genre doesn't have as much of a negative effect with the "wrong" type of game like it does in GameDevStory.

Still, the Linux progressing issue I mentioned earlier is really frustrating as I can't research most of the tech without spamming poor quality games to get the RP up (not enough staff).
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By mongrol, 29 April 2013 at 9:49 pm UTC
This looks just like a clone of GameDevStory. A game thats been cloned as many times as Tetris. Still, if its polished it is a refreshing concept even though it does get a bit repetitive. Would be good to hear if theres anything differentiating it from its genetic parent.
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By Liam Dawe, 29 April 2013 at 7:24 pm UTC
It's quite a genius idea and can certainly help you see how many people pirate I guess, looks like a studio worth investing a few bucks in..if they fix the Linux bugs that is.
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By , 29 April 2013 at 6:56 pm UTC
The Linux version appears to be fine until you want to upgrade the office -- I get a Javascript error when I do.
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By , 29 April 2013 at 6:22 pm UTC
The developers have a great attitude towards pirates. Communication instead of persecution. I really recommend to read this:
http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/

That is worth supporting, I would say.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation for Linux releasing in April/May!
By , 29 April 2013 at 5:38 pm UTC
Just saw this now and lemme tell ya man: I'm gonna buy it on day one and I'll play it extensively on my ubuntu htpc wearing nothing but undies
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By Liam Dawe, 29 April 2013 at 4:33 pm UTC
Also to note on this post it seems the game may not actually work on Linux:
Quoteyes, I'm sorry. the full version is available on Linux but since our release yesterday we got several reports that things are not quite working (our test was fine), thus it would be silly to release a linux demo right now...
So it would be silly of them to release a Linux demo but sell a full game for it...right?
Stealth Bastard Deluxe is now available for Linux
By Kame, 29 April 2013 at 4:30 pm UTC
While I'm ~90% sure it will be in either the next HiB or the one after that, I'm still totally buying it. I dunno why I love platformers so much (puzzle or otherwise).
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By Liam Dawe, 29 April 2013 at 4:30 pm UTC
Sounds like a game I would quite enjoy!
Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game
By Mike Frett, 29 April 2013 at 3:54 pm UTC
There is also a Pirated version of this game released by the Company. In the pirated version, after a few hours of playing, you notice that your Games are getting pirated within the Game. It's quite clever.
Worlds of Magic - A new classic 4X fantasy game
By Sabun, 28 April 2013 at 11:55 pm UTC
QuoteThe game's being done in Unity
Once again, a big thanks to the guys over at Unity! Too bad with all these kickstarters, we aren't seeing anyone use a Unigine + Linux combo.
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