Links 18/11/2013: Games-related News
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2013-11-19 10:03:03 UTC
- Modified: 2013-11-19 10:03:03 UTC
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Valve has outlined a number of presentations that will taking place at their upcoming developer conference event, the inaugural Steam Dev Days, hosted in Seattle early next year. A session schedule includes presentations involving reps of AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Unity and Oculus, and of course a whole bunch hosted by the Valve Software team.
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For the first time in the history of Linux gaming, we have the trifecta: video game engines, digital distribution, and finally hardware manufacturers all working together.
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Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale – a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
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Originally due to start today the open beta for Nuclear Dawn the FPS/RTS game should hit in a few days!
We reported the game to you a few times (including with screenshots here) and it has hit multiple delays due to various issues over time, now though it looks to be hitting our platform in just a few days time.
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A few days ago, in addition to the already existing Humble Bundle Sales and Weekly Sales, the Humble Bundle Store appeared on the market.
The Humble Bundle Store will assault with reduced prices, but in comparison to Humble Indie Bundles or Humble Weekly Sales, you can not pay what you want.
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Nuclear Dawn the RTS/FPS hybrid is powering it's way onto Linux with a possible open beta later this week!
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Faster Than Light (more commonly known as FTL) is a top-down, real-time strategy game on Steam, made by indie team Subset Games. The player takes control of the crew in a space vessel that’s in possession of critical information that must be delivered to an allied fleet several sectors away. However, to make the game more challenging, you are pursued by a large rebel fleet in every sector.
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Valve is fervently working on the new operating system and users can now trick the Steam client to think that is running under SteamOS.
Valve has started to integrate functionalities between Steam and SteamOS. In order to get a glimpse of that you will have to get the latest Beta.
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Wow, there's a nasty poke in the eye to Linux and Mac gamers. id Software seems to be regressing in its support of Linux. This is quite odd given what Valve is doing with SteamOS.
I guess Valve is just going to have to convince id Software that Linux is worth supporting. For the record, my money is on Valve. They know what they are doing, and I think the folks at id will do a quick turnabout when all is said and done.
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