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Links 3/3/2014: Games





  • Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers
    Hey Linux gamers, got some good news for the AMD users . It’s pretty common knowledge Nvidia users get some good drivers at the trade-off of binary blob drivers (or not, depending on your ethics) and that AMD are often left in the dust, but how can open source drivers change that?
  • Planetary Annihilation Now In Gamma Phase With Major Patch, New GOL Video For You


  • Door Kickers Squad-Based Strategy Releases Alpha 9


  • Steam Family Sharing now open to public
    The announcement came over the Steam Community Boards, where it was announced that the Family Sharing feature is now available to the general public. Through this feature, a single user can share his/her entire Steam Library with up to five family members over ten different devices. Once the members are authorized, they can play any or all of the game through their own accounts. The achievements, saves and other related records achieved by the gamer will be tied to the gamer’s individual account using cloud saves.


  • Steam Hardware Survey Changes, Now Split Per-Platform
    Something to note is that it doesn't show the lesser represented distro's, I for example use Manjaro which isn't shown.

    So, to look back on January Linux was actually on 1.34%, not 1.11%!


  • February 2014 Steam Hardware Survey Shows Linux At 1.3%
    According to the latest figures published by Valve for their "Steam Hardware Survey", they put the percent of Linux gamers on Steam at 1.30%.


  • Many Linux Games To Look Forward To In 2014
    So Linux has a lot of games now, with plenty more still to come this year as it's early days yet, but I have decided to list a few you really need to keep an eye on. Since we post so much news nowadays I feel that it is a good time to reflect on what we have still yet to come, so you don't get lost in a sea of Linux games.


  • GOL Cast: Catching Phantoms And Poltergeists In GhostControl Inc.


  • Nothing To Hide, A Game Of Anti-Stealth & It's Open Source
    I have tested the game and it runs really well on Manjaro, it's very odd, but the premise is really funny. I love how it all looks like status updates on a social networking site.


  • Linux Gamers Have More Choices Than Ever
    After a number of years of remaining woefully behind other platforms, Linux is starting to be a gaming platform to take seriously. Late last year, I covered comments from Lars Gustavsson, a creative director for EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE), the Electronic Arts studio that does the Battlefield series, on the topic of Linux games. He had told Polygon that DICE would love to delve into Linux games, and that what Linux really needs is a "killer game." Now, as 2014 is underway, Linux gamers actually have a lot of good choices.


  • Do Linux gamers have too many options now?
    My feeling is that the answer is clearly no, and frankly it's very refreshing for Linux gamers to have different options at all. I remember the days when it was very hard to find games for Linux and I'd never want to go back to that. Ever. It was a miserable time if you used Linux and wanted to play games.


  • Shadowrun: Dragonfall now available on PC, Mac and Linux
    Shadowrun Returns today receives its first full-length campaign expansion with Shadowrun: Dragonfall from developer Harebrained Schemes. A 12+ hour campaign set in the city of Berlin awaits with new features.


  • Portal 2 released for Linux
    Today, a beta version of Portal 2, one of the most successful game titles poduced by Valve and generally one of the most successful computer games, has been released for Linux. While the first Portal has been available on Linux for a year now, Valve was working on other titles for Linux, like Left 4 Dead 2, Dota 2 or the new game consoles “Steam machines”, before releasing Portal 2 for Linux.


  • Cricket Audio now available for Linux
    Cricket Audio allows app developers to quickly add sound to their apps with just a few lines of code. It can play sounds directly from memory with low latency, or stream them from storage media, and is designed specifically for mobile games, with highly optimized code and low, predictable memory usage. It also works on Windows, OS X, and now Linux, so it can be integrated into authoring tools.

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