LinuxGameCast Weekly EP67 — The Horseening

iBuyPower goes full retard with a Steam Machine prototype! Nuclear Dawn FINALLY makes with the working, another devel can’t be arsed to test their Linux port, and something about a sale? Then we throw the chairs at Rogue Legacy. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Steam News :

Steam Autumn Sale 2013

http://store.steampowered.com/?Ineedsometeaandbiscuitsandkittens

New sales every day (50%-75% off)
New flash sales every 8 hours (75%-90% off)
Wallet Murdering 101

Commercial Steam Machine looks like a small refrigerator

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/25/commercial-steambox-prototype

“And, while the company wouldn’t tell us about the boxes’ internals, it did confirm that the hardware will run all Steam titles in 1080p resolution at 60fps.”
- That is so fucking misleading!
AMD APU + R9 270 GPU… because Mantle! >.>
I’d like to see AMD finally cave and release a PROPER Linux driver for once. I’m not holding my breath though.
$499? Oh, good luck /w that.
Like the Xi3 this is not a real Steam boxen.
IBuyPower, a name you can trust in computing

Almost 7 months since the first Linux Beta, Still Not Working

http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=248410

€28 for a game that barely works and only if it’s in the right mood, is way too much
I completely agree with the above but at least they are actively trying to unfuck it.

Distance Alpha 2316

http://refract.com/post/68145835540/distance-alpha-2316-changelog

The 2315 Released finally brought controller support to Linux.
The layout can only be described as cruel and unusual punishment.

Nuclear Dawn makes with the working (thank pizza hipster for pointing this out)

http://steamcommunity.com/app/17710/discussions/3/648811852606424192/

It’s not exactly optimized and hangs on close.
Playable
€3.05 during the Fall sale.
Still crashes for me.

News:

TF2 FPS

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-November/049382.html

MOAR Gallium3D performance improvements
Basically, they’re sharing code from the r600 driver to the Southern Isles architecture to help get better performance for the Radeon 7k series.
Now it just needs OpenGL 3+ and better 3D performance.

Scraps Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nition/scraps-customisable-vehicle-combat-for-windows-mac

Think KSP /w cars and guns
Multiplayer? Damn negro, that’s all you had to say

Minetest 0.4.8 released

http://minetest.net/

I suppose its worth a look if you demand your minecraft experience to be FLOSS
- Or if you’re too cheap to pay for a minecraft account

PokerTH has a Linux version

http://pokerth.net/download.html

This just peaked my curiosity, since I didn’t know of any THold’em that worked natively under Linux.
It’s empty most of the time though

Grapple Knight Castlevania 2013

http://www.indiedb.com/games/grapple-knight

Thar be Linux demo:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/grapple-knight/downloads/grapple-knight-v0186-linux
- From their kickstarter, the demo is “new and untested”, because its so fucking difficult to install linux on a PC and TEST YOUR FUCKING CODE
I liked Castlevania and this is not.