LinuxGameCast Weekly EP18 — A Humble (Bundle) Review

Coming up on this LinuxGamecast weekly. Steam for everyone! Phoronix is up for sale, THQ goes tits-up and we break down the Humble Bundle 7.

Steam News :

Steam For Linux Goes Public
http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1747660173332716773

In order to participate in the beta, you must download the latest Steam Linux client
Valve will now track Steam for Linux client bugs using GitHub.
Steam installer package repository.

Steam winter sale
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

Ends January 5
50-75% off several Linux games
- SS3 BFE
- Amnesia
- Killing Floor
- FTL ← Keeping my eye on that one
- Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

Steam Skin Manager
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/download-steam-for-linux-skin-manager.html

Comes with two skins by default: Ambiance and Radiance
Ubuntu font, thin scrollbars, Ubuntu (Humanity) back and forward arrows
Native window borders
Only for Ubuntu
12 Kinds of useless IMHO, but whatever floats yous guys boats

Tom ‘spot’ Callaway removes his Steam *.rpm

It was here a few days ago: http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam/ but now it’s gone.
Build the *.rpm yourself http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/846939071258869580/

News:

“Last year Ubuntu added Super Meat Boy to their store without our written permission and sold it for a full year without paying us.”
http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406945771976419136

They rejected isaac a while ago because its content “wasnt a good fit for the Ubuntu store”
Super Meat Boy to their store without our written permission
Gamingonlinux.com tries to break it down http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/on-the-controversies-of-humble-canonical-and-team-meat.1567/
Bacon on damage control https://plus.google.com/114419073019603780828/posts/KA5vKChgwDQ
Interesting. I feel there’s too much we still don’t know, but dick move on both their parts
Curious how many developers who’ve had anti-linux sentiment in the past will be heel-face-turning

Phoronix up for sale. No more Steam rumours left to report.

$20,000 starting bid. Buy it now for $499,000
Michael plans to step away from his editorial role at Phoronix.com
Will work on the Phoronix Test Suite

THQ goes tits-up
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/thq-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-shares-halted-2012-12-19?link=MW_latest_news

Chapter 11 bankruptcy
So much for those Linux ports
Haha!

Heroes of Newerth hacked
http://rootgamer.com/news/hacker-gained-acces-heroes-newerth-account-infromation

S2 Games encourages everyone to change any passwords that were shared with your Heroes of Newerth account.
Hacker exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to first gain access and download the database
Found more vulnerabilities later on.

HIB 7
https://www.humblebundle.com/

Five games and one movie
Dungeon Defenders: the first Unreal Engine 3 game to get an honest-to-goodness Linux port
Six soundtracks
Good selection this time around, Grimrock Stands out
Dawns on me I have game soundtracks that I’ve purchased and never listened to

Games :

Snapshot
http://www.retroaffect.com/games/1/snapshot/

Legend of Grimrock
http://www.grimrock.net/

Old school Gold box style RPG. Me gusta

Dungeon Defenders
http://dungeondefenders.com/

Closure
http://closuregame.com/

Reminds me of Limbo

Shank 2 SNAFU

Bad file
No gamepad or keyboard support when gamepad detected.

Feedback:
Harinator writes in to tell us about Aleona’s Tales

“I found that the old Freecraft project has been resurrected as Aleona’s Tales. Back in the old days Freecraft has the only free RTS worth playing.”

Eathan answers our question about Steam games
https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/281179628364767232
“Basically, we upload to Steam, then mark it as Linux, but we also need to clear it to be made public. Yeah.”