Coming up on this LinuxGamecast Weekly. Linus talks Steam. Ur-Quan Masters HD is out, Doom 3 BFG is almost ready and Blizzard might be working on a native banhammer.

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Steam News

News



Games



Feedback:

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http://slexy.org/view/s210oqD11A

PSA: Saving that holiday SSD

http://goinglinux.com/articles/Optimize_Linux_For_SSD_Drive.html



Steam News :

The big list of Steam

http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/

Alright Selection

Several games on steam actually have linux clients that aren’t being included I want me some UT2k4. That game was fun.

Whar L4D2?



Ubuntu added HW survey

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey



Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 0.13%

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit 0.26%

Ubuntu 12.10 0.12%

Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.29%



Steam boxen confirmed?

http://www.gamechup.com/steam-box-confirmed-by-valve-engineer-for-2013-will-be-linux-based-report/



Will I buy it? Nope. Why? #gloriouspsgamingmasterrace

Who will provide the graphics? Nvidia/AMD?

Linus Torvalds speaks about Valve and their work on Linux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_medium=referral&t=45m23s&utm_source=t.co&v=PDEce3mtkRg

0:45:23 Valve

1:00:49 Hookers and blow <-show title?

Linus never worked with Valve

Several kernel devels along with GL userspace critters did

They were pleased with the interaction



News:

Doom 3 BFG Linux

https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG



Excellent. Now let the standalone content flow. Bwahahaha

It builds, works; but no sound.



OUYA Gaming Console (developer version) demoed on video!

http://phandroid.com/2012/12/31/ouya-in-depth-overview-hands-on/



Always been skeptical of this. Sure its a cheap console, but people have computers. And phones

The onlive thing sounds interesting. That might put more butts in seats

Might work as a cheap Onlive box but, yeah.



Did Steam kill Desura?

http://www.desura.com/



I don’t think so Steam has been around for almost/over a decade Desura Killed desura. Trying to play as a content distribution network in the land of package managers is kind of iffy steam can do it because they have the publishers on their side Should have heavily leveraged their strengths (MODDB, indieroyale, etc ) focus on what’s different and cool Harder to focus on indie games due to steam greenlight





Valve planning a Steam client for Linux Blizzard Entertainment Planning A Linux Game For 2013

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI2ODE



Let’s play find the source!

Ah, this must be the ZOMG Valve on Linux for 2013

Now Blizzard can ban Linux users natively



Games :

Ur-Quan Masters HD (Star Control 2) Released

http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/01/ur-quan-masters-high-definition-star-control-2-released/



Multi-platform Open Source port of the classic sci-fi game Star Control 2

Based on the original source code of the 3DO version

High resolution mode, new features, & new artwork.



Build & Defend a hybrid of tower defence and minecraft



Tower Defense, Multi-player cooperation, Destructible world and Economics

The controls are a little odd

You can play for free with limited options



Teleglitch

http://www.teleglitch.com/



Roguelike top-down shooter with pixel graphics.

Option to combine all weapons and items into new awesome gear

10+ hours of play time

Needs a resolution option

I’m a bit sick of this “retro” pixel business.

Cube2: Sauerbraten Collect edition released

New maps

Added “collect”, “insta collect”, and “efficiency collect” game modes

Now uses GLSL as the default rendering path when available



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olnnn 1 day ago

Have you considered doing the livestreams earlier in the day? I would watch the show live, but it’s in the middle of the night for us europeans?

http://slexy.org/view/s210oqD11A

pizzadude808

You should disable apport to get rid of the program crash popups during the show.

sudo nano /etc/default/apport

change enabled=1 to enabled=0