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Valve Releases Half-Life (Beta) For Linux

By Venn Stone / Jan 24, 2013 / 4 Comments

Today Valve released Half-Life beta for the Steam Linux client. It runs with flawlessly on our 32-bit Ubuntu system minus the occasional audio hiccup. Jordan reported issues with Selinux on Fedora 18. The fix is …

Knytt Underground Beta 1

By Venn Stone / Jan 3, 2013 / No Comments

Knytt Underground is a 2D platform game featuring a quirky story and a huge world to explore. You play as Mi Sprocket, a sprite who develops special powers as she embarks upon a quest to ring the six bells of fate

McDROID Beta 50% Off On Desura

By Venn Stone / Dec 6, 2012 / No Comments

Remember that tower defense, bullet hell time vampire we screamed about a few weeks back? Well, the good guys at Elefantopia made it available for the unwashed masses. Screech over and pick it up for $14.99 $7.49 on Desura. Includes all updates till release as well as a copy of the final game.

Ostrich Island Looking For Beta Testers

By Venn Stone / Dec 5, 2012 / One Comment

MeDungeon posted the following on our favourite subreddit. “I have just finished conversion of my game Ostrich Island to Linux. It is not officially published yet because I need your help – please test it and let me …

L.G.C. |How-To| — Team Fortress 2 (TF2) Speed Boost With DX9frames

By Venn Stone / Nov 28, 2012 / 8 Comments

Time for another quick and dirty how-to from Linux Game Cast. This time we show you a simple hack for speeding up Team Fortress 2 (native) on Linux using DX9frames.

Valve On “Hacked” Linux Betas: No Banhammer For You!

By Venn Stone / Nov 25, 2012 / No Comments

Valve sent out 5000 additional golden tickets this week but most of us are still left waiting. Well, good news for the unwashed masses. Redditor zuberuber posted his interaction with Steam tech support in our …

Steam Autumn Sale – Save 50% Off On Tine 2 And Others

By Venn Stone / Nov 22, 2012 / No Comments

Ah, so this is what a Steam sale feels like. Neat! You can pick up Trine 2 and twenty other Linux native games during the Steam Autumn sale. About: Trine 2 is a sidescrolling game …

It’s Over 5000! Valve Expands Steam Linux Beta

By Venn Stone / Nov 21, 2012 / One Comment

Valve announced that 5000 users will be added to the official Steam beta. Check with the judge. “Limited Beta Expansion posted by Frank @ 02:14PM on November 21, 2012 We’re making good progress finding and fixing issues …

LinuxGameCast Weekly EP13 — A Serious Giveaway

By Venn Stone / Nov 19, 2012 / 2 Comments

Coming up on this LinuxGameCast Weekly. Is Valve working on a game console? Blizzard admits to banning Linux users, Egosoft porting X3 to Linux and we’re giving away copies of Serious Sam 3 and Ensign-1.