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About:
A unique Action-RPG combining Japanese art and folklore with the classic Red Riding Hood tale.

Website: angry-red.com
Via linux_gaming

Key Features:

• Morph your troops into war mechs to discover the new face of strategy: each unit has a different mech form with various abilities to help you overcome specific combat situations.
• Engage in a multiplayer experience unique to Anomaly 2: tower defense vs. tower offense. Play as the towers and destroy the humans or lead the humans to annihilate the alien towers.
• Fight across a post-apocalyptic world in a new single-player campaign that offers a more intense strategy experience than the acclaimed original.
• Carve your own path to victory and create your ultimate battle squad. With over million tactical combinations to build your squad, your options in combat are nearly endless.
• Dive into a beautifully rendered world, thanks to the team’s upgraded and improved visual engine.
• Experience alternative endings dependent upon your approach to enemy machines in the campaign.

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About:
In the years following the invasion of Earth in 2018, the planet is overrun by alien machines. Humankind is on the verge of extinction. Banded together in huge convoys, they search the frozen tundra for food and supplies. Since the war, the roles have been reversed: now our species seems to be the Anomaly on a machine-controlled planet. Your convoy, Commander, is called Yukon.

Anomaly 2 takes the RTS tower-offense concept from Anomaly Warzone Earth to a new level. The core elements of the original – tactical planning and the on-field Commander to support troops in combat – are spiced up by a number of important new features.

Website: store.steampowered.com

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

PSA:

HD4650 doable for Linux gaming? Bwahahahaha ahahahah ..nope.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1dy0uh/is_hd4650_doable_for_linux_gaming/

• To be fair, my Mobility HD5650 is very doable for Linux gaming. But then again, the 13.1 drivers (now the legacy ones) SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED. So yeah… nope!

• Would you ask “Is HD4650 doable for Linux Windows gaming?”

• http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+4650

• cal·cu·la·tor  

• /ˈkalkyəˌlātər/

• Noun

• Something used for making mathematical calculations, esp. a small electronic device with a keyboard and a visual display.

• Yes, you can play some older indie titles but have no illusions of participating in the Steamy goodness.

• Now, here’s the thing. Linux system requirements are (usually) higher compared to Windows when it comes to gaming. Check with the judge.

  • http://store.steampowered.com/app/41070/

• Eeeesh 354. Mine scores 553 on that website.

  • 3,508

  • 5350 

Steam News :

Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, and Stacking make with the downloading.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/225260/?snr=1_7_15__13

• Like OS only multiplayer for Brütal Legend

  • http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/9178/#273448

• Good on the Double Fine critters for having these ready on launch day.

• Good to see a famous name promoting gaming on linux

Good news, everyone – Linux version of GMod almost done ..kinda
http://garry.tv/2013/05/11/linuxxx/

• Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. Is this still relevant? I’d rather see the Source Movie Maker get ported.

• Apparently GMod is still a thing. A big thing. More the merrier.

Half-Life 2 ALLTHETHINGS!
http://steamcommunity.com/games/220/announcements/detail/1729658462273384426

• HL2, Half-Life 2 Ep1, Ep2, and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast all make with the working.

• Mmmm! FSMdamn, Valve! This is some serious gourmet shite! Me, Jordan and Pedro would have been happy with L4D2 right, but you spring this serious GOURMET shite on us!

• First time playing HL2. This must have been face-melting in 2004.

• Still one of the best games of the past decade!

• We now have the entire Orange Box on linux.  That’s pretty cool.

News:

Double Complete Humble Bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/

• Mr. Schaffer keeps doing right by me, Imma keep givin’ him the moonie$!

• Psychonauts, Costume Quest, Brütal Legend and $35 for a taste of Broken Age.

• Now accepting Bitcoin

• Linux still crushing the average but slightly less purchases vs MAC.

• Well, I wanted a copy of Costume Quest and Brutal legend, and they’re on linux now

OpenXcom 0.9 released
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/05/openxcom-takes-giant-leap.html

• Downloaded it to see if it was at least as much fun as Dune Legacy, then it reminded me why XCom was the first game I honestly disliked.

• Need the original art assets, $4.99 on Steam

• Went from a fairly incomplete version 0.4 to a fully playable and enhanced version 0.9.

Salvation Prophecy: A Military Space Epic – native linux port released
http://www.salvationprophecy.com/index.php/2013/05/06/506/

• A dev who doesn’t sheep along with the “AMD-on-Linux-sucks-so-don’t-bother” Movement! RESPEKT!

• Crabwalk is baaaaack!

Rawbots free during Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rozgo/rawbots-multiplayer-sandbox/posts/475539

• Shite don’t run, son.

• 64bit only, because they don’t really want people to give them money.

• Did you look at Valve and go all “Pfffft! We know better!” #doingitwrong

• In all fairness the $29.99 “early access” version has a 32-bit build.

• You people need to get with the times, maaaaaaaaan

• Idungeddit

8-bit commando
http://2dengine.com/commando/

• Hey, controller support! Neat!

• Keeps crashing on the first level with FK all error output.

• I’m not getting any crashes

• No crashes here either.

rtcwcoop 0.9.5 Released
http://www.rtcwcoop.com/2013/05/rtcwcoop-0-9-5/

• “This is the first release I consider stable.”

• Added banning and tempbanning

• Added obituaries for players

• Fixed dead bodies blocking bullets

• Fixed loading screen on widescreen setups

• What about the improper syncing between clients, like we experienced in our Playas?

• Perhaps we should give this one a part 3

Review

Game: Brütal Legend
Website: http://store.steampowered.com/app/225260/
Devel: Double Fine Productions
Engine:
Price: $19.99

 Scale:

- Nooope
- Not sure if want
- Check it out
- Shutupandtakemymonies

Makes with the working

V-

• It’s Steam but i’m dinging it a chair because VSYNC should not be default.

J-  

P-

• Because Steam!

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

• WIN win and win. Did I mention win? \m/

J-   

• Can’t complain about an all metal soundtrack

P-

• For once I didn’t experience any of the vsync issues other people complained about.

• Yay! They don’t discriminate against certain types of Metal just because “some people” don’t like it.

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Controls

V-

• Clearly constructed for a console. Four years after the console release and random gerbil clicking was the best you could come up with?

J-

• Controls are a bit jittery, I was able to play with keyboard controls.   

P-

• Console oriented UI, lack of proper graphical options and defaulting to vsync.

• I spent a good 10 mins to make it through the bridge at the start because that car is impossible to drive

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 Fun

V-

• You tricked me DF. If this had RTS anywhere in the description I would have noped the FK out.

J-

• I can’t hate this game.  I like the atmosphere, the soundtrack and the little heavy metal references.     It ain’t perfect, but I certainly had fun

P-

• Like Venn said, it’s an RTS in the guise of a hacky-slashy, driving sandbox. It’s like Road Rash meets Age of Empires 2 with the “HOW DO YOU TURN THIS ON” cheat.

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Final-

Feedback:

MIC Licking
http://slexy.org/view/s20ycv631o

Retrobooster demo updated to 0.6.5
http://slexy.org/view/s20M3Vdr2F

Update: Half-Life 2 Ep1 and Ep2 now work.

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Source: steamdb.info

Added:

• Added banning and tempbanning
• Added obituaries for players
• Added 1 respawning gun around each flag that will only be there if AI respawning is enabled.
• Added globalaccum command for player sections, as the accums in the player section are local to each player. This fixes random bugs like Tram, Boss1 start, City gate or Rocket elevator or such.

Fixes:

• Fixed callvote nextmap in Church map
• Fixed Baseout loading image
• Fixed call vote crashing in Windows due to trivial unfinished MP call vote porting.
• Fixed Centeprint newlines fix. Made CG_CenterPrint more like MP version.
• Fixed chair pickup to work like it should.

Grab the full list here.

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Website: www.rtcwcoop.com

Google Code Project: code.google.com/p/bzzwolfsp/

And last but not least, we present to you…. the latest version of Rawbots running on linux! We are still in our testing phase, but so far it is working quite well. So, if you know of friends that wanted to play an amazing game on linux, feel free to forward this email to them.

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v 0.1.1 changelog:

• Fixed velocity lock that caused inertia bugs.
• Temporary removed hexblock selection on VP.
• Holoprojector icon fixed

Website: www.rawbots.net

Five crazy imaginative games from Double Fine Productions.

We’re quadrupling the amount of Double Fine fun you can have with four awesome games from Double Fine Productions and a whole heap of extra stuff! Pay what you want and get the beloved and hilarious platformer Psychonauts; the matryoshka doll epic adventure Stacking; and the adorable adventure/RPG Costume Quest. If you pay over the average, you’ll get the heavy metal action/adventure/RTS rocker Brütal Legend. You’ll also become a slacker backer of Double Fine’s Kickstarter point-and-click adventure game, Broken Age, with a purchase of $35 or more and receive the finished game and bonus content that comes with it! And if you pay $70 or more you’ll receive a limited edition Double Fine T-shirt (choose from two color options) in addition to everything else! Additionally, this bundle includes tons of soundtracks that will have your ears jumping for joy!

Website: www.humblebundle.com

Subscribe:

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Links

PSA

• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1590639245/stonehearth

• https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/317039431150342144

Contest

• http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/136/a-tiny-contest

Steam

• http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?april

• http://steamcommunity.com/games/Portal/announcements/detail/1801715498876762930

• http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2Mzk

• http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=10534

• http://store.steampowered.com/app/234190

• http://steamcommunity.com/app/234190/discussions/0/828937546008114101

• http://store.steampowered.com/app/209190/

News

• http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-319.17-driver.html

• http://www.angry-red.com/

• https://plus.google.com/110109595966784702846/posts/YtDGVyFQE8t

• https://github.com/xLAva/JediAcademyLinux

• http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/05/czerwony-kapturek-little-red-riding-hood-dark-take-on-a-classic-tale/

Review

• http://www.frogatto.com/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRpwDC6H8AA

Feedback

• http://slexy.org/view/s21m8wEgTL

• http://slexy.org/view/s20vX3hOaH

 PSA:

Stonehearth kickstarter – linux $200k stretch goal (fk stretch goals)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1590639245/stonehearth

“If you make Linux a stretch goal, then ask me to port it at the last minute, I will quote the full stretch amount. You have been warned.” -flibitijibibo

• If you don’t plan Linux support from genesis don’t bother. Chances are you will hire someone for a one off port that will never receive updates A.K.A. half the Humble ports.

• RTS Minecraft Clone #23765346 ?!

 Contest:

A Tiny Contest

http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/136/a-tiny-contest

http://www.tinyandbig.com/games/grandpasleftovers/

Name one of the following for a chance to win a copy of Tiny and Big GLO. Winners announced next week.

• Manufacture

• Interface

• Capacity

 Steam News :

Linux drops 0.13%

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?april

• In all fairness it was a shite month for releases.

• Will releases like Portal 2, L4D2 pick things up?

• It’ll take a while for linux usage to really spike up once devs start bringing triple A titles.

• We have perhaps some of the bigger valve games will help, but definitely they will start seeing some converts once DOTA2 shows up on the linux rep

• That initial awe has blown over, and there were plenty of devs using it for testing purposes.

Portal goes native.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/Portal/announcements/detail/1801715498876762930

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2Mzk

• AKA: Portal?  On my linux?  Its  more likely than you think

• And somehow; SOMEHOW hewhomustnotbenamed cocked up the story ..wow

• Page-views whoring 101

L4D2 (beta) goes live

http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=10534

• “Thanks to the efficiencies we were able to achieve with Linux, we skipped Valve time and are delivering the L4D2 Beta Linux build today as planned”

• The trusty L.G.C. render boxen curb-stomps this game with everything on 11.

• They cut the “next week” thing a little close.

• Looking forward to playas on that sucker

Receiver now Available on Steam for Linux (64bit)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/234190

http://steamcommunity.com/app/234190/discussions/0/828937546008114101

• Steam is 32bit, all other steam linux games are 32bit… This one is 64bit only. Hurrrr!
• Apparently it’s not working for all 64bit users either.
  • As of May 2nd, the 32bit binary is now available.
  • The game is as intuitive as tying your shoelaces with one hand
  • and as forgiving as baseball bat to the teeth
    • Can’t change key bindings, can’t change graphic options… this is an alpha build!

Stealth Bastard Deluxe comes to Steam 50% off

http://store.steampowered.com/app/209190/

• Uuuuugh stop with the faux interlaced pixel graphics already.
• Has controller support but fk all if it works
• You might think such a simple game would be fluid on a modern system. You’d be wrong.
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jpqnrDhEXA
  • Naa, turns out it’s based on the Game Maker 8 engine
    • Damn!
• The rate of Faux-retro platformer games on Linux is way too damn high.

 News:

NVIDIA 319.17

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-319.17-driver.html

• Added support for the following GPU: GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST GeForce GT 720M GeForce GT 735M GeForce GT 740M GeForce GT 745M GeForce GT 750M

• Fixed the X server crash when repeatedly enabling and disabling displays

• Removed the X driver’s support for “CursorShadow” <-shite never worked right in the first place.

• Probably gonna take a weekend to futz with the new drivers.   313.18 is still doing me fine

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters enters closed Linux testing

http://www.angry-red.com/

• Unity game so it runs OOTB
• Only has *.deb packages but it’s easy to work around
• The game i$ free but ha$ option$ to purcha$e upgrade$
  • At least it works… Unlike Gear Up!

Jedi Academy (Single Player Linux Port)

https://plus.google.com/110109595966784702846/posts/YtDGVyFQE8t

https://github.com/xLAva/JediAcademyLinux

• Released on Apr 28 so I FKN called it ..bitches. Both ported by months end.

• Still only single player 00

• Binary included in the git

• Have yet to finish the native Jedi Outcast version. Then I’m all over this.

• Jedi games keep piling up.  Now that I’m moved in I really need to get going on those suckers

“Little Red Riding Hood” – small, but climatic game created by polish students

http://czerwonykapturek.wordpress.com/

• Just learned the FK out of some Polish.
• Really dig the atmosphere and the switch mechanism is tits.
• 100% open source
• Okay kids, lesson #1: Learn how to make your game not F#$% with people’s multimonitor configs. There is absolutely no reason this game should even attempt to fullscreen into both my monitors.
  • They’re students so they get a free pass… this time.
• They get an english version going, allow people to choose the resolution before the game starts and they’re golden!
• It’s good to see LUA getting some more love!
• Nifty Little platformer. I too like the mechanic they chose.
• Dig that its student work.

Scale:

- Nooope

- Check it out

- Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Frogatto

Website: http://www.frogatto.com/

Engine: Custom

Price: $0.00

“Frogatto & Friends is a platformer video game with adventure-elements, created by a team that includes the creator of The Battle for Wesnoth, and three of Wesnoth’s department leads,[2] and was first released in July 2010. In Frogatto, the player helps Frogatto save his friends from trouble.”

Makes with the working

V-

• Cloned the git (all 1.3GB of it) and compiled without issue.

J-

• Cloned git, check out branch, compile.   Works pretty well.   Dinging it a chair because its not “out of the box”

P-

• A lesser man would have given up at the point when he realised the game needed libpng15 and he was stuck with libpng12 on a dead OS.

• In all seriousness I had to compile the whole damn thing with libpng12 using some very dirty hacks, which I can only hope won’t bring me problems in the future…

• Oh right! Dead OS, nvm. Carry on!

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

• It captures the look of early SNES games without feeling forced. Dinging it for the repetitive background music.

J-

• Totally agree with Venn on getting the look and feel of old SNES games down pat.

P-

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Control / fun

V-

• Gamepad and keyboard work but sweet mother of FSM; input is wonky.

• Everytime I jump it feels like someone kicked the game into turbo mode while walking feels sluggish.

• I like the sense of humor (outhouse saves) but I gave up after 30min.

J-

• Reminds me of a more action/platfpormery earthbound.   I didn’t really have any input problems, but controller support would be nice

P-

• Does Linux really need another retro-looking, platformer/rpg, type game?

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 Final – *

From the L4d2 blog:

Thanks to the efficiencies we were able to achieve with Linux, we skipped Valve time and are delivering the L4D2 Beta Linux build today as planned. The Beta build not only allows Linux owners to play the game natively, it is also the testing ground for our new Extended Mutation System.

If you currently own Left 4 Dead 2, You should see “Left 4 Dead 2 Beta” in your library. If it doesn’t show up, restart Steam. This is a complete build of Left 4 Dead 2, so the build is as large as the current game.

You also receive access to the Left 4 Dead 2 Beta Authoring tools and Left 4 Dead 2 Beta Dedicated Server. This will allow you to start working with EMS.

The Beta version also contains updated Windows and Mac clients, so even if you are not running under Linux you can help by testing the Beta.

Current changes in this build include:

• Server operators can now specify whether or not custom content is allowed when playing on their servers. This can be set on a per game mode basis – see cfg/addonconfig.cfg for details.
• Fixed main menu not refreshing after workshop add-ons have been loaded. Custom UI skins should display correctly now.
• Reworked add-on management to improve stability and properly support custom mutations
• Prevent an intermittant crash when browsing the add-ons screen

Source: www.l4d.com/blog/

They are looking for help translating the game. So scream in their direction if you can help.

PS: We are looking for people with knowledge of English to be done perfect location – volunteers welcome to department contact .

Features:

• The game is 100% free (no ads)
• Stylish, hand-drawn graphics
• Atmospheric music
• Six playable levels

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Website: czerwonykapturek.wordpress.com