Coming up on this LinuxGamecast Weekly. 0 A.D. goes tax exempt. Nikki and Windward stop development. Croteam delivers a serious update, AMD sets off our scouter and we try our hand at surgery.

Steam News :

Serious Sam 3 Update 176695 – publicbeta

http://steamcommunity.com/app/41070/discussions/0/846943514192086605/



Text input in Linux now respects the current keyboard layout.

Game now tries to restore desktop resolution after fatal error.

Dedicated server would not start from Steam client.



AMD Claims Up to 9000 300% Improvement in Team Fortress 2

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/RN_LN_CAT13-2_Beta.aspx



Resolves a Team Fortress 2 performance issue with Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and AMD Radeon™ HD 7000, 6000 Series GPU. Up to 300% performance improvement

Resolves a Serious Sam 3 launching and corruption issue with Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and AMD Radeon™



News:

0 A.D. now a member of SPI, can receive tax-deductible donations in USA

http://play0ad.com/0-a-d-joins-software-in-the-public-interest-can-receive-tax-deductible-donations/



Bring Venn’s voice to the masses

If you live in the United States, you can donate to 0 A.D. through SPI and deduct it from your taxes.

0 A.D. will remain a free, open-source project

If you wish to donate to 0 A.D. through a European bank account, to save international money transfer costs, this can be done through the German non-profit organization, ffis e.V.



Nikki and the Robots Stops Development

http://joyridelabs.de/blog/?p=1557



No more episodes

Didn’t sell as much as hoped.

Website and the online store will stay online for at least some months



Windward (BETA) is free for now

http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/01/naval-combat-game-windward-goes-free-to-play/



$71k?!

Stopped development because he was unable to get greenlit on Steam / get fresh exposure after multiplayer was added

Servers will remain online

HTH does he plan to keep the servers online?

Why not release the source? Why not indeed That way people can continue development and people can run their own goddamn servers

Game itself is alright.



Annex upgraded from mod to Indie Game

http://www.indiedb.com/games/annex-conquer-the-world/news/annex-upgraded-from-mod-to-indie-game



Crashed hard on first run. Edited annex.ini to change resolution to 1280×700 an in windowed mode

First impression is very starcrafty

Funky Music

Nice that someone is making use of the Megaglest engine



Open Source Xbox360 Emulator In The Works

https://github.com/benvanik/xenia



Neat. Love me some emulators

It does not run games (yet)

Only builds on Windows and OSX (for now)



X3AP Public Beta Testing

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=233076&sid=c2a8f03c40348fe530ed618c50a49c3a



Beta test for X3 Albion Prelude

New Terran HQ Model

Fixed exploit in freight transfer menu

Fixed ATF Rank not being able to rise



Games :

Could you test this pre-alpha build of my game’s new graphics and gamepad support?

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/17eaoa/could_you_test_this_prealpha_build_of_my_games/



Wouldn’t compile. /home/jordan/src/Runtime Engine-44c9defa0b87b870/lin/../main.c:202: multiple definition of `main’ Static Binary Works on fedora 18 64 bit

Cute. Controls are very loose though

Idungeddit



Surgery Simulator 2013 has a Linux version

http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/01/surgeon-simulator-2013-comes-to-linux/



Its like QWOP but with manslaughter!

A game where you have to relearn how to use a single hand

My goal is seeing how quickly I can kill the patient



WORDTRAP DUNGEON pre-alpha version

https://crunchingkoalas.com/?p=2241

