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'Planet Explorers', the open world RPG sandbox finally released in full, with Linux support
11 November 2016 at 9:03 am UTC
I've played this from some Alpha on, and it's great to see this finally getting mature.

I actually started about three times, because the early versions lacked story, so you'd be inclined to play 40 hours and then put it away because there was nothing else to do, or you hit a show-stopping bug in the story. And when you wanted to pick it up again, the savegames were incompatible.

The crashes neowiz73 mentions are most probably due to memory leaks. You can avoid them by having a lot of memory...

And yes, the game is great. Recommended if you like these kind of games (open world, survival, some action, building..)
Developer of 'Steam Marines' talks sales, Linux represented 2% over the lifetime of it
9 November 2016 at 11:50 am UTC
Perspective of one Linux gamer:

I'm buying a lot of games, and I also did buy Steam Marines 1, I got it on June 20th, 2014, apparently on sales for 5,99€ at that point.

I'm not really into rogue-likes, or strategy, or even most 2D games -- my favourite games are things like Minecraft, ARK Survival Evolved, Borderlands, 7 Days to Die, Planet Explorers, Skyrim and Fallout 3 (the latter two I played with Wine; I don't have any Windows). I probably bought it because a) it was reasonably cheap, and b) ran on Linux. I did the same for hundreds of other games, most of which I tried out, but never really played. I also sometimes pay full price, but only if the game really interests me and only if it runs on Linux.

I'm only pestering developers if I would like to play the game, or if it's got empty, but existing, depots on steam, or if it actually would already work on Linux, but wasn't released: https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/windows-unity-games-on-linux/
Steam store updated, Valve still haven't fixed filtering to only Linux games on the homepage
7 November 2016 at 11:34 pm UTC Likes: 2
At least it's Dishonored 2, whose predecessor was really good, and ran nicely on wine.

But I actually only need the "Popular new releases" and the "Specials" lists.

I love that I now can exclude everything, everywhere that is tagged with "Soccer". Sadly, hat feature doesn't work yet in real life.
GOG Connect has new games for you to grab from Steam for free if you already own them
7 November 2016 at 2:53 pm UTC
I got: Risk of Rain, Vangers, The Witcher Adventure Game, Frozen Cortex, Metro 2033 Redux, Frozen Synapse, HuniePop
First Steps with OpenVR and the Vive on Linux
6 November 2016 at 12:03 pm UTC
C++ ABI troubles: If Vrui or hellovr crash with "symbol _ZNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEC1Ev, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference"

you need to recompile with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0.

Now they run, but I still don't quite get it to display as it should.
Using Nvidia's NVENC with OBS Studio makes Linux game recording really great
29 October 2016 at 5:48 pm UTC
Quoting: dubigrasuYou can see it unboxed and tested by Penguin Recordings here:
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
Interesting. The hardware seems to be great -- with OBS, because a software such as Media Express which outputs as MJPEG AVI, and has no keyboard-shortcuts is obviously unusable.
The Steam 2016 Halloween sale has some nice Linux games for cheap
29 October 2016 at 9:07 am UTC
Quoting: AnxiousInfusionMy store page is properly filtering Linux-only titles ever since adding it to preferences. I wonder why it doesn't work for so many other people.

Oh, that's new. Did it, mostly works. I don't mind having a few (like in "minority") Windows-only titles appearing in the "Now Available/Recommended for you"-Box, but if it's all of them -- like this morning, before setting that preference -- it's just a nuisance.
The Challenge, a new Unreal Engine adventure game about protecting time, it's a bit of a mess
10 October 2016 at 4:09 pm UTC
And, the writer might be professional -- in his native tongue, Russian.
'Firewatch', the first person mystery adventure game has a major update, new game mode and Unity update
23 September 2016 at 8:05 am UTC
Quoting: DrMcCoyNot nothing. They build up atmosphere and suspense.

I second you. That goes for other movies (and even games) as well. I mean, I know people who think "Aliens" is slow and boring. It's not, it builds up, then everything goes belly-up, and then again, everything slows down again. It's great.
Stellar Overload (previously named Planets³) has released an experimental UE4 Linux build, looks very cool
20 September 2016 at 10:34 am UTC
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