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Season 02, Episode 23
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We have a terse look at the last fortnight's gaming news, discuss some recent crowdfunding campaigns of interest, chat about programmers doing livestreams, and Cheese reports on PAX Australia.
Double Fine Fan Meetup and BBQ with Ron Gilbert [source]
Tech News
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]
Former Valve developer Rich Geldreich wrote a blog post noting a port report by soeb_ [source] [source]
General Gaming News
Trine Enchanted Edition is now live on Steam for Linux in beta [source]
War Thunder, a F2P tank & airplane combat game set in WW2 is now out for Linux [source] [source]
Leszek Godlewski no longer doing Linux ports. Darksiders is still happening but being held up by graphical glitches [source]
Insurgency for Linux seems to be delayed because of Valve [source]
Massive Chalice is out on Steam Early Access [source]
Bad Juju Games buys Desura from Linden Labs [source]
Clockwork Empires is progressing towards a Linux release [source] [source]
Crowdfunding
The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy reaches its funding goal [source]
GOG releases a few classic LucasArts titles available for Linux [source]
Handmade Hero, a project to code a complete game, one hour a night, live via Twitch [source]
Jonathan Blow has been streaming video discussing and coding a programming language from scratch [source]
Crystal Picnic source release crowdfunding campaign by Nooskewl [source]
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