Links 17/3/2014: Games

Open source comes to games
For years, enterprises have been learning that open-source projects can solve the mundane issues that plague all businesses. It just pushes the innovation up the stack to a level where your company can get something done, instead of requiring everyone to reinvent the wheel at every roadblock.

But the world of video games has long lagged behind in its adoption and affection for open source. Games are generally valuable assets with a general mass-market appeal, so the tendency of businesses has been to protect those software development tools as jealously as a trade secret.

NVIDIA GameWorks Should Be Out For Linux Before The Summer
GameWorks, NVIDIA's umbrella of technologies for enhancing PC gaming, should be available for Linux before the summer.
Unvanquished Continues Work On Its PNaCl Support
Valve Fixes Portal 2 To Work With SELinux
Valve's VOGL Quickly Sees Improvements, AMD Support
Sunset in development at Tale of Tales for Linux, Mac and PC

Sharing Steam Games On Two Different Linux Distributions
Gas Guzzlers Extreme Fantastic Looking Combat Racer To Come To Linux
Satellite Reign Real-Time Class-Based Strategy Game First Game-Play Footage Shown
Unity Confirms They Have No Plans For A Linux Editor
Even though the request page for a Unity Editor on Linux has reached nearly 10,000 votes, Unity themselves have confirmed they have no plans for it.
Proper Nvidia PhysX Linux Support Soon With Nvidia GameWorks

Valve’s OpenGL debugger now on Github
Back during the Steam Dev Days, Valve made a mention of an OpenGL debugger that they were currently on. Now to follow up that news, they have released their debugger by putting up the Valve OpenGL Debugger, or VOGL Debugger up on github for all to try out and tinker about.

GLCS: A Better Version Of GLC For Linux Game Capturing
GLCS is a spin of the popular GLC OpenGL game recorder for Linux that adds in a few extra features.

GoG dropping a teeny hint about Linux support
Good Old Games or GoG is a well-known site to any gamer as a place where one can get games completely DRM free and almost always with additional goodies that they can’t find anywhere else. Now it seems that they will be adding to the good praises that they have been receiving by spear heading a DRM free revolution, by adding support for Linux games in their catalogues.

The possible rumour came into being following a forum post by a GoG team member on the official GoG boards. A user had commented that the user would like if they supported Linux, which was one of the only reason that they preferred to use other sellers like Humble Store which is known to sell games for Linux. To this comment, the community representative replied with “Linux you say … hmmm … let us chew on this … ;)”

Valve fires another shot in its war against Windows gaming dominance
Valve is leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to insure that Windows will no longer be the dominant platform for computer gaming, and this will be a good thing for gamers over the long haul.

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