Links 13/3/2014: Games
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-13 11:56:43 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-13 11:56:43 UTC
With Valve's Source Engine originally just targeting Direct3D, when initially porting their games to Linux and OS X they relied upon a hand-made Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer. In potentially assisting other game developers, Valve Software has now opened up this graphics translation layer.
Crytek has confirmed that CryEngine now has "full native Linux support." A demo of the engine running on the open source OS will be presented at Game Developers Conference next week.
Crytek has announced plans to reveal the nature of their updates to proprietary game engine CryEngine in the upcoming GDC in San Francisco. They have immediately outed that the engine now natively supports Linux.
Crytek will also use the event to show off their latest games. Visitors will get to play two new modes from online FPS Warface, Tower Raid and Capture. They will also be showing of The Collectables, a military strategy game for iOS and Android.
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Digital Tribe Games has announced that their upcoming new dungeon themed Role Playing Game, TinyKeep, is going to see the light of the day pretty soon on Linux, Mac and Windows machines. The game is now under development having reached its funding goal on Kickstarter thanks to the pledges of 807 people.
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I am sure there are a few Sega fans following us here, so this one is for you! Duck Marines is a free software remake of the ChuChu Rocket party game. Sadly I didn't have a Sega Dreamcast for very long, so it is not a title I am too familiar with.
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The Humble Mobile Bundle is back and with it six awesome Android games. These games make the list of best games of 2013. Like every time, this humble bundle will stay on sale for 2 weeks only, so just literally pay a couple of bucks and get them.
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Valve has recently released Portal 2 on Steam for Linux and opened a GitHub entry to gather all the bugs from the community. When one of the Valve developers closed a bug related to Portal 2 recommending that the users disable a security feature, the Linux community reacted.
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