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A Thought on What Holds Linux Gaming Back
30 March 2013 at 5:49 pm UTC

according to the wikipedia its 54 milion active steam accounts
(just saying to remove the damn email spam on each reply)

Steams March user survey is out, Linux goes down!
30 March 2013 at 5:38 pm UTC

its compared to the january because initially february statistics did not include other distros (just ubuntu)
it was later changed - somewhere in march.

thats my wild guess

A Thought on What Holds Linux Gaming Back
30 March 2013 at 5:05 pm UTC

aye, unity3d can look as good as unigine i think. maybe its not optimized that far as unigine is but still.
it just that unity3d was first used for small indie games cause of the pricing and the free demo of the engine.
that makes many think that this game engine is not capable of pulling AAA titles.

take a look at Airbuccaneers or Guns Of Icarus for example. they look absolutely amazing and are done with unity3d

A Thought on What Holds Linux Gaming Back
30 March 2013 at 5:01 pm UTC

manjaro or cinnarch are probably the best bets.
cinnarch if you want out of box cinnamon
manjaro if you want xfce (because thats the most polished from their side)
chakra if you want kde

and pure Arch with your own tweaks if you are freak like me lol :D

Steam's hardware survey now shows many distro's
18 March 2013 at 6:20 pm UTC

cat /etc/lsb-release 

those distros that doesnt have that are counted as Linux 64bit or Linux

Zoftilo Voice Chat
13 March 2013 at 11:43 am UTC

nice to see alternatives imo.
i myself using teamspeak3 mostly, cause i find its features the best (except somewhat higher cpu usage than mumble)
mumble for me has some nice features missing or i havent just found them. for example adjusting peoples volume levels (not global volume).

will keep eye on the Zoftilo Voice Chat... lets see what comes out of it

Legends of Aethereus an MMORPG in closed beta that's coming to Linux
13 March 2013 at 11:33 am UTC

its far from MMORPG
its more like small number of players on Co-Op Game
as MMORPG stands for Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

so it can be MORPG without Massively :D

nice game though, last time i tried there was beta v2
is that updated?
cause there were some nasty bugs before

Civitas - Plan, develop and manage the city of your dreams!
9 March 2013 at 9:35 pm UTC

until then get Cities XL and play it under wine. works perfectly..

yeah that project seems little  bit like a scam, but who knows.

Steams February stats are out, Linux rises again to over 2%
1 March 2013 at 9:54 pm UTC

probably other distros that are detected by steam hw info are counted also.
just their % doesnt reach to 0.10% so they are included in Other

Champions of Regnum MMORPG released on Steam
28 February 2013 at 3:24 pm UTC

i have had zero launcher crashes, started fine all the time. no game crashes also with max settings.
only problem is that it turns off the second monitor when going fullscreen. and when using windowed mode with 1920x1080 for example, then some of the games content is hidden behind the panels.
but modifying game.cfg to 1920x1000 and windowed makes it work without problems and can see the full content of the game.

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