Introduction
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introduces…
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and
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Our Gaming
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John has been playing more LYNE, watching DOTA’s TI4, Pivvot, and Three Dead Zed
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DerRidda played (and watched) DOTA, Broken Sword 2, and Pulsar
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Swordfischer played Block Storm, Fractal
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Cheese played Left 4 Dead 2, Guns of Icarus: Online, Hand of Fate, X‐Com, Planetary Annihilation, Starbound and testing BANG BANG BANG!
SteamLUG Community Stuff
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Past Events:
Starbound [source ]
Planetary Annihilation [source ]
XCOM: Enemy Unknown [source ]
Deathmatch Classic [source ]
Regular Guns of Icarus events [source ]
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Upcoming Events:
11th Skulls of the Shogun [source ]
12th Left 4 Dead 2 [source ]
18th Civ V [source ]
19th Team Fortress 2 [source ]
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Event suggestions welcome via:
#SteamLUG IRC [source ]
Twitter
SteamLUG Mumble [source ]
Discussion thread [source ]
Email cast@steamlug.org
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Other Community Stuff
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The Raven chapter 2 for Game Club [source ]
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Soeb’s XCOM article [source ]
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PC Gaming Wiki PLUG HERE [source ]
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SteamDB Linux’s crowd‐sourced repo has now confirmed 500 working titles on Steam Linux.
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John mentions Braid ‘We’re doing a from-scratch Braid/linux port, but there’s no ETA yet.’ [source ]
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Wry is keen to organise regular Starbound gatherings [source ]
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psymin has been experimenting with a SteamLUG group chat bot
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Upcoming Cast guests
Edwin Smith ‐ Feral Interactive
JP LeBreton ‐ Double Fine
Steam/Valve News
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Steam Survey stats, up by 0.1% against other platforms
Slight growth from Mint 17, drop for Mint 16 and growth for ‘other’
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Steam Client updates
Fix performance issues for overlay for subscribed guides
On s02e13 we mentioned better NV support for H/W acceleration, it’s been disabled now!
Mac/Win duplicate games are now hidden!
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Epic funded this research, ReVuln ‐ Steam VOIP Security [source ]
Tech News
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Unity 4.5.2 released, includes fixes for mouse/freezing issues [source ]
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Unreal Engine 4 Linux demos [source ]
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John mentions issues at CrytekUK [source ]
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Sword is looking for a Single-Player First Person Shooter, can you recommend a title?
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Leszek mentioned that he is porting DarkSiders to Linux [source ]
Only the first one so far [source ]
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Epic sponsors Blender Development Fund to improve FBX export [source ]
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Oculus acquires RakNet and releases it under a simplified BSD licence [source ]
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OBS Studio is getting more usable, Nemoder has been streaming using it [source ]
General Gaming News
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Grim Fandango to get simultaneous Linux release [source ]
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Darksiders is being ported to Linux [source ] It’s only the first one so far [source ]
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Dwarf Fortress update [source ]
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Hand of Fate launches on Steam Early Access [source ]
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Crawl release delayed [source ]
That GIF [source ]
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Team Fortress 2 Pre-Alpha map update [source ]
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Dragon’s Lair for Linux is ‘in the pipeline’ [source ]
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Mountain is now available [source ]
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Virtual Programming have opened a beta channel on Steam with improvements to The Witcher 2 [source ]
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Natural Selection development handed off to the ‘Community Development Team’. Linux devs wanted [source ]
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Humble
2K Bundle includes XCOM [source ]
Weekly Bundle: Gamepedia includes Stacking [source ]
Store has its DRM Freedom Sale [source ]
Eye Candy Weekly Sale is still available? [source ]
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Steam releases
Sakura Spirit [source ]
Quest for Infamy [source ]
Deponia: The Complete Journey [source ]
Q*bert: Rebooted [source ]
Three Dead Zed (zombie platformer) [source ]
Hand of Fate [source ]
Mount and Blade: Warband [source ]
Cult of the Wind [source ]
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Greenlight [source ]
Ionic Surge, Wipeout‐alike [source ]
Attractio [source ]
Bonetown, third-person fantasy-adventure [source ]
Parcel, 3rd person maze puzzler [source ]
Coloropus [source ]
Crowdfunding
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Nixie Pixel has a Patreon [source ]
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Cheese asks about our thoughts on Crowdfunding progress and experiences…
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John mentions Dyscourse [source ], NOWHERE [source ], Neverending Nightmares [source ]
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Blender Open Movie Projects [source ]
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Leadworks [source ]
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The Maker’s Eden (We interviewed them back in s01e04 !) [source ]
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Expeditions Conquistador [source ]
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Battle Worlds: Kronos [source ]
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The Fall [source ]
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Race The Sun [source ]
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Chasm [source ]
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Wasteland 2 [source ]
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Cheese mentions Planetary Annihilation [source ], Distance [source ], and Maia [source ]
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Star Citizen [source ]
Sign‐off
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