Links 9/4/2014: Games
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-09 19:06:16 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-09 19:06:16 UTC
Age of Wonders III, a turn-based strategy developed by Triumph Studios and published only on the Linux platform, has managed to get the Linux community all riled up, no matter the platform.
When Crytek announced that it was going to provide support for the Linux platform in its CRYENGINE technology, the community immediately understood that this was a game changer for developers and the future of Linux as an entertainment platform.
Centration, a multiplayer survival horror sandbox game developed by Angry Engineers Entertainment, is now available on Steam for Linux with a 15% discount.
Evolution RTS, an open source real time strategy developed and published by Frozen Yak Entertainment, will arrive on Steam for Linux soon.
Valve has updated their monthly statistics for operating system use and other system attributes via their Steam Hardware Survey.
To celebrate these improvements being made, I ran a variety of open-source driver tests with this game's test profile. The tests were limited to AMD Radeon and Intel HD Graphics hardware as the NVIDIA GeForce GPUs would end up generating DRM errors when running Unvanquished with its advanced visual settings. The GPUs tested out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with this latest Unvanquished version include.
The latest monthly development release of the open-source Unvanquished first-person shooter is now available.
Unvanquished, a free, open source first-person shooter combining real-time strategy elements with a futuristic and sci-fi setting, has just reached version 0.26 and is ready for testing.
I can understand the temptation to give into despair when it comes to Linux versus Windows in gaming. After all it has been Windows that has historically dominated in terms of gaming over the years. Linux was either an also-ran or it simply never mattered in any way whatsoever to game developers. A lot of them would have laughed if you’d mentioned Linux to them as a viable alternative to Windows for their games.
But it’s important to remember that those days are in the past, and they’re never coming again. Valve has made sure of this by releasing Steam for Linux, and the upcoming release of SteamOS along with its Steam Machines will put Linux on the gaming map in a big way. I’ve never seen such excitement among Linux gamers as I have after Valve announced SteamOS, you could tell that things were changing in a big way.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, however, and Linux as a gaming platform won’t be either. Windows has had many years of being the incumbent and that isn’t going to suddenly stop in the span of a few months. So Linux gamers need to be patient as Valve puts the finishing touches on SteamOS, and as more and more games are announced for Steam.
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