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Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Bumadar, 3 October 2011 at 6:05 pm UTC
have to agree with you on some of your comments, I got SteelStorm 1 and did find it very bland. It was only because of the HiB3 that I came into contract with SteelStorm 2 and was pleasantly surprised. Feel a bit sad though that your cut was so little. New missions will be a must buy though :)
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 5:11 pm UTC
Btw, the video featured in the interview is not the video of "Tomes of Mephistopheles" :P
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By , 3 October 2011 at 5:10 pm UTC
I can't say for sure what engine we will be using. We are performing internal testing after which we can conclude which engine is most suitable for the project.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Hamish, 3 October 2011 at 4:55 pm UTC
I assume that "Tomes of the Mephistopheles" is going to be using their Unigine license?

I will hopefully be getting Steel Storm down along with some of my other HIB3 titles over Thanksgiving since my uncle is lucky enough to have unlimited internet. I can give a proper opinion of the game then.
Kot-in-Action creators of Steel Storm Interview!
By Hamish, 3 October 2011 at 4:54 pm UTC
I assume that "Tomes of the Mephistopheles" is going to be using their Unigine license?

I will hopefully be getting Steel Storm down along with some of my other HIB3 titles over Thanksgiving since my uncle is lucky enough to have unlimited internet. I can give a proper opinion of the game then.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 3 October 2011 at 9:08 am UTC
I mean in the grand scheme of things it's really not all that many, not many up to date ones anyway. I am looking forward to Ensign though since it should offer quite a lot from the look of it.

Also Enemy Territory - i wish they would release an up to date version now the source is out.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Hamish, 2 October 2011 at 8:40 pm UTC
Well, of course there are the id games (Quakes, Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein), Prey of course, there was Soldier of Fortune from Loki (still available from Fun4Tux and Amazon.com last time I checked), Shogo and SiN from Hyperion (although Shogo has sadly gone out of stock from TuxGames, and the SiN port sucks by all accounts), Postal2 with the various mods and expansions, plus all of those games with source ports. And that is simply off the top of my head.
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Liam Dawe, 2 October 2011 at 7:11 pm UTC
Quoting: "Anonymous, post: 2375" [COLOR=#000000]Is it commercial game?[/COLOR]

Yes it is.
Quoting: "Hamish, post: 2376"The game does look interesting, but since this is going to be commercial and we already have plenty of single-player non-death-match commercial shooters for Linux, I do not quite understand your aside. This game is a uniqe take on everything though, like Helena was. So it is nice and different.

I wonder how well Helena did for them in the end. Maybe they should try and sneak it into the current bundle... ;)

I haven't actually seen that many commercial single player shooters for Linux?
Announcing Ensign 1!
By Hamish, 2 October 2011 at 5:25 pm UTC
The game does look interesting, but since this is going to be commercial and we already have plenty of single-player non-death-match commercial shooters for Linux, I do not quite understand your aside. This game is a uniqe take on everything though, like Helena was. So it is nice and different.

I wonder how well Helena did for them in the end. Maybe they should try and sneak it into the current bundle... ;)
Announcing Ensign 1!
By , 2 October 2011 at 1:14 pm UTC
[COLOR=#000000]Is it commercial game?[/COLOR]
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 1 October 2011 at 4:45 pm UTC
I think we have a spam bot...
Trauma added to HIB
By Bumadar, 1 October 2011 at 1:06 pm UTC
strange game, intriguing though and quiet enjoyable
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Bumadar, 29 September 2011 at 5:59 pm UTC
got it because I like the game but not to impressed with the bundle itself... as its not a bundle (unless you did not get the frozenbyte bundle before)
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By , 29 September 2011 at 5:41 pm UTC
I think they are just wanting people to spend more than $1.
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Liam Dawe, 29 September 2011 at 7:26 am UTC
I think this game looks great, my brother gave it a good little review to me as he got it via Steam when it came out for Windows.

I agree though in that they should have waited...
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
By Hamish, 28 September 2011 at 8:37 pm UTC
Frankly, I am underwhelmed. They should have waited until they could include more games. And I am not particularly interested in the one new game they are offering. :confused:
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 24 September 2011 at 6:02 pm UTC
Achron updates
By KIAaze, 24 September 2011 at 2:51 pm UTC
ACHRON IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
How did this get past GamingOnLinux and LinuxGamingNews?!!!!
-> http://www.achrongame.com/site/index.php

And you get one additional free copy if you buy it!

The bad news: 64-bit only and "experimental build", but still quite good news. :)
Linux: 64-bit GNU/Linux; it is a working experimental build that requires either the proprietary ATI or Nvidia graphic card drivers. We are planning to support Mac and 32-bit GNU/Linux in the future. 
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Xpander, 24 September 2011 at 11:22 am UTC
the custom game searching doesnt work for me.
i see there is option under settings that u can find games u have installed and even point the games to correct folders. but sadly it doesnt work.
ahh well its beta afterall :) really happy with it anyway.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By KIAaze, 24 September 2011 at 12:12 am UTC
I'm in as well now. :)
Redeemed all my humble bundle desura keys, except HIB1, which didn't have any unfortunately.
Most HIB games seem to work, except a few like "Machinarium" and "Revenge of the titans" which crash Desura.
I also tried Urban terror, which worked without any issues.

So overall, very satisfied and very happy. :)
Marball Odyssey $1+ (not quite pay what you want)
By Hamish, 22 September 2011 at 4:55 pm UTC
QuoteAn interesting note here is that Mac sales in our own store did not go down as a other online outlets like Steam started to provide mac versions; meaning it did not steal our customers but opened up to a new market. We think it is a good incentive for other stores to support Linux as well! - Frictional Games


http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesia-one-year-later.html
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Liam Dawe, 22 September 2011 at 1:02 pm UTC
Yeah they all have their place, but for now I'm not holding any hope on Steam, all my hopes go to Desura and Gameolith.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Xpander, 21 September 2011 at 10:19 pm UTC
we can hope for both. they are little different.
desura is mostly indie games and addons/mods for games.
while steam has all different stuff.

i really like the desura thingy but i still hope that steam will come to linux some day.
the more choices the better it is imo. like linux itself: freedom of choice.
i would use them both.
Gameolith gives more info for game developers.
By Liam Dawe, 21 September 2011 at 8:51 pm UTC
They said it is a planned feature, but Gameolith is only one person...
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Liam Dawe, 21 September 2011 at 8:50 pm UTC
He didn't mention Steam for once, that is a shock....although a lot of other people are now jumping on a "steam should take note" bandwagon...i disagree with them, we should support Desura not hope for another service.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 21 September 2011 at 5:24 pm UTC
Looks like Larabel is a little late to the party, guess he managed to clear his head enough of beer to read his inbox:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTkyOA

And you should be happy Liam, no mention of Steam for Linux this time.
Gameolith gives more info for game developers.
By Hamish, 21 September 2011 at 4:31 pm UTC
While they are at it, they should really add screenshots to their game pages.
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Liam Dawe, 21 September 2011 at 9:06 am UTC
Yeah it's pretty awesome that they are bringing new games over :D
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Hamish, 20 September 2011 at 5:58 pm UTC
QuoteWe've got plenty more games coming, some never before on Linux, so much to look forward to.

http://www.desura.com/groups/linux-gamers/news/desura-linux-beta-launch

:D
Desura to launch a closed Linux Beta!
By Bumadar, 20 September 2011 at 4:10 pm UTC
Its exiting that they finally got it working but I do worry a bit that Gameolith.com might have to pay the price for it. Is the linux market big enough to sustain both ?

ooh and Phoronix will hype Desura to no end while being pretty negative about Gameolith.com when it was released.

Time will tell.
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