SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:18

johndrinkwater introduces...

00:00:20

DerRidda

00:00:22

ValiantCheese

Our Gaming

00:00:33

DerRidda has played a little CS:GO, some FTL

00:00:53

johndrinkwater played some Borderlands 2 (Offline) and some CS:GO

00:02:00

ValiantCheese played Crypt of the Necrodancer and a little Massive Chalice

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:02:33

Past Events

Killing Floor [source]

TF2 [source]

Dead Island [source]

Guns of Icarus Online [source]

Hoard [source]

00:05:20

Upcoming Events

Double Action: Boogaloo [source]

Worms Reloaded [source]

Sanctum 2 [source]

Other Community Stuff

00:09:31

Nuclear Dawn Battle Society welcomes Linux users [source]

00:11:35

SteamLUG members participated in the 7dfps [source]

00:14:09

Double Fine Game Club doing The Journey Down Chapter Two with devs Theodor Waern theowaern and Henrik Englund henrik_englund [source]

00:14:45

Cheese visited PAX Australia and was blown away by the overwhelming support for Linux [source]

Satellite Reign [source]

Assault Android Cactus [source]

Particulars [source]

Square Heroes [source]

Swordy [source]

Star Citizen FPS reveal [source]

Double Fine Fan Meetup and BBQ with Ron Gilbert [source]

Tech News

00:24:16

Nvidia released 346.16 beta driver which brings hw encoding for some proprietary codecs, hw-accelerated VP8 decoding for some devices and should increase performance for FBOs [source]

00:25:05

Former Valve developer Rich Geldreich wrote a blog post noting a port report by soeb_ [source] [source]

General Gaming News

00:34:45

Trine Enchanted Edition is now live on Steam for Linux in beta [source]

00:35:48

War Thunder, a F2P tank & airplane combat game set in WW2 is now out for Linux [source] [source]

00:36:20

Leszek Godlewski no longer doing Linux ports. Darksiders is still happening but being held up by graphical glitches [source]

00:38:41

Insurgency for Linux seems to be delayed because of Valve [source]

00:40:18

Massive Chalice is out on Steam Early Access [source]

00:46:14

This War of Mine released [source]

00:47:37

Bad Juju Games buys Desura from Linden Labs [source]

00:51:28

Clockwork Empires is progressing towards a Linux release [source] [source]

Crowdfunding

00:53:43

The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy reaches its funding goal [source]

00:57:16

GOG releases a few classic LucasArts titles available for Linux [source]

01:01:19

Handmade Hero, a project to code a complete game, one hour a night, live via Twitch [source]

01:03:10

Jonathan Blow has been streaming video discussing and coding a programming language from scratch [source]

01:06:12

Crystal Picnic source release crowdfunding campaign by Nooskewl [source]

Sign-off

SteamLUG Cast is a casual, fortnightly audiocast which aims to provide interesting news and discussion for the SteamLUG and broader Linux gaming communities.

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