SteamLUG Cast
Vulkanic GDC edited by
Shownotes written by 
Introduction
- John (johndrinkwater)
- DerRidda (DerRidda)
- Nemoder ([source])
Our Gaming
- DerRidda has been playing FTL, Hand of Fate, CS:GO and the unreleased ‘Reformat Your System Simulator 2015’
- Nemoder has been playing some Factorio, the daily challenges in Crypt of the Necrodancer and some Worms: Clan Wars
- John played some CS:GO during the event, yet mostly has been in pre‐launch testing of Hotline Miami 2.
Community Events
- Past Events
- CS: GO [source]
- Worms: Reloaded [source]
- Don’t Starve Together [source]
- Guns of Icarus Online [source]
- Double Action: Boogaloo [source]
- Upcoming events
- War Thunder [source]
- Robocraft [source]
- HOARD [source]
- Borderlands 2 [source]
GDC News Spotlight
- Game Developer’s Conference 2015 [source]
- Before GDC, HTC + Valve announced VR Headset at the Mobile World Congress [source]
- Ars Technica has a hands‐on report [source]
- PC Gamer’s take on SteamVR [source]
- Portal‐themed demo on YouTube [source]
- Valve talks about ‘advanced VR rendering’ [source]
- Valve issued a big press release and SteamDB had the full copy [source] [source]
- Steam has grown another 50% in the last 12 months
- Several new bits of hardware available in November
- SteamLink streaming device [source]
- Steam Controller [source]
- IGN has some thoughts on the controller [source]
- Steam Machines from a variety of partners [source]
- Developer versions of the VR headset to be available Spring this year
- The successor to OpenGL has been revealed: Vulkan is here [source]
- AMD gave Khronos a kickstart by handing them Mantle
- Video of Khronos Panel near GDC [source]
- One API for Desktop and Mobile
- NVIDIA and AMD both had demos on their respective hardware
- Valve had a demo of Dota 2 running on Intel Graphics
- Unreal Engine has dropped the monthly subscription fee for access to the source code [source]
- NVIDIA has made the source to PhysX available via GitHub [source]
- Unity 5 Personal Edition with all features of the engine available is free [source]
- Source 2 has been announced as free to developers so long as the title ships through Steam [source]
Steam/Valve News
- A whole slew of best‐selling games are coming to SteamOS [source]
- Evolve [source]
- Dying Light [source]
- Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor [source]
- Total War: ATTILA [source]
- Batman: Arkham Knight [source]
- Payday 2 [source]
- Saint’s Row IV [source]
- GRID Autosport [source]
- Company of Heroes 2 [source]
- Valve has listed the soon to be available Steam Machines [source]
General Gaming News
- Frozenbyte announces Trine 3 [source] [source]
- Frozenbyte’s Lauri Hyvärinen about Linux support: ‘It’s alive and well. It’s coming for sure.’
- Worms: Clan Wars released [source] [source]
- Mad Max from Avalanche Studios will be coming to Linux [source]
- Torchlight II available for Linux [source] [source]
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and Cities: Skylines to be released on the 10th [source] [source]
- Rex Rocket (another flibitijibibo port) has had its Linux release [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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