Links 26/1/2014: Games

Valve says virtual reality hardware could transform entertainment in two years

Perhaps no company in the video game industry is as prescient as Valve. The Half-Life 2 developer foresaw the coming importance of digital distribution in 2003, fighting against market forces to launch its Steam platform. Now, more than a decade later, it sees another major change on the horizon that will change the way we play games: virtual reality. Valve's Michael Abrash — a programming veteran who helped create Windows NT and co-authored Quake with John Carmack — spoke about the technology at the recent Steam Dev Days conference. In his slides and notes from the talk, now available to pore through in PDF form, Abrash says that Valve has already offered support to Oculus, and that he sees "compelling, consumer-priced VR hardware" coming within two years. That hardware, he says, could "transform the entertainment industry."

Rage Runner A Fast Paced 3D Runner Release On Desura For Linux

Holy cow Rage Runner looks hard, really want to give it a run as it combines some slick graphics with some solid looking game-play. I've played 1 or 2 of these types of games in the past, but not since the Amiga, it looks solid just look at the trailer!

Sandbox Game Planet Explorers 0.72 Update Gets Huge Multiplayer, Mac And Linux Builds

Kindgom Come: Deliverance smashes Kickstarter Goal, coming to PC, Mac, Linux, and (possibly) next-gen

Sword Of The Stars: The Pit & Ground Pounders Soon To Arrive On Linux

We are currently approaching completion of porting The Pit to Linux (as well as Mac and mobile pads.) Ground Pounders is also nearing completion. It's was designed with multiplatform multiplay in mind, so it will go out the door with Linux hot on its heels, whereas The Pit started with enough manpower for one SKU and we opted for PC. Then over the last few months, we worked on expanding it as well as working towards the ports as things progressed. It's gone a bit longer than we'd hoped, but we'll be done pretty soon. The Pit is coming to Linux!

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