SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:20

DerRidda (DerRidda)

00:00:23

bean (beansmyname)

00:00:25

Nemoder ([source])

Our Gaming

00:00:32

Beans has been playing Borderlands: Pre-Sequel, Natural Selection 2, Cosmochoria, Assault Android Cactus, Left 4 Dead 2

00:01:30

Nemoder has been playing Guns of Icarus, Natural Selection 2, Rexaura, Dwarf Fortress, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Civ: BE, Space Farmers, Escape Goat 2

00:02:23

DerRidda has been playing CS:GO, Star Wars: Dark Forces, The Witcher 2

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:04:28

Past events

Left 4 Dead 2 [source]

Trine [source]

Empire: Total War 2 [source]

Natural Selection 2 [source]

00:08:21

Upcoming events

Little Racers STREET [source]

Serious Sam 3 [source]

Starbound [source]

Dota 2 [source]

00:10:06

SteamLUG genre poll [source]

Edwin Smith from feralgames mentioned a suspected preference for strategy titles on Linux in s02e15

Steam/Valve News

00:10:35

Valve removed OAuth Key Redemption, Humble Bundle are going back to their previous system. [source]

00:12:37

SteamOS Update 153 is out [source]

00:13:40

Steam launch script bug potentially deleting files has been fixed [source] [source]

Tech News

00:16:27

GOG.com removes password protection in .rar files again [source]

00:17:21

Nvidia releases GTX 960 mid-range card [source]

00:19:05

New stable Nvidia driver 346.35 released, fixes issues with Metro Redux games on highest settings [source]

General Gaming News

00:20:28

Civilization: Beyond Earth for Mac/Linux is back in sync with Windows on Steam. [source]

00:21:47

Audiosurf 2 in Early Access with linux support [source]

00:22:49

Oddworld New 'N' Tasty gets a release date for Linux - February 25 [source]

00:23:50

Aspyr Media close to breaking even [source]

00:25:08

GOG added Linux versions of Star Wars: Dark Forces, Among the Sleep, Trine 2 Complete Story [source]

00:26:42

Dying Light might be coming to Linux [source]

Crowdfunding

00:30:19

New Shadowrun game set in Hong Kong is up on Kickstarter [source]

00:32:30

Children of Morta action/roguelike [source]

00:33:20

STRAFE 1996 old-school FPS. Linux support is uncertain [source] [source]

00:34:14

Star Mazer is a mix of classic adventure and shoot ’em up [source]

00:34:58

Invisible Inc. by Klei on Steam Early Access for Linux [source]

Clarification: Linux support is officially coming in the next update, but a development version is currently playable

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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