Introduction
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John ()
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DerRidda ()
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Nemoder ([source ])
Our Gaming
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DerRidda has been playing FTL, Hand of Fate, CS:GO and the unreleased ‘Reformat Your System Simulator 2015’
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Nemoder has been playing some Factorio, the daily challenges in Crypt of the Necrodancer and some Worms: Clan Wars
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John played some CS:GO during the event, yet mostly has been in pre‐launch testing of Hotline Miami 2.
Community Events
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Past Events
CS: GO [source ]
Worms: Reloaded [source ]
Don’t Starve Together [source ]
Guns of Icarus Online [source ]
Double Action: Boogaloo [source ]
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Upcoming events
War Thunder [source ]
Robocraft [source ]
HOARD [source ]
Borderlands 2 [source ]
GDC News Spotlight
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Game Developer’s Conference 2015 [source ]
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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 ]
00:15:20
Valve issued a big press release and SteamDB had the full copy [source ] [source ]
00:15:41
Steam has grown another 50% in the last 12 months
00:16:00
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
00:22:44
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
00:30:10
Unreal Engine has dropped the monthly subscription fee for access to the source code [source ]
00:31:22
NVIDIA has made the source to PhysX available via GitHub [source ]
00:32:25
Unity 5 Personal Edition with all features of the engine available is free [source ]
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Source 2 has been announced as free to developers so long as the title ships through Steam [source ]
Steam/Valve News
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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 ]
00:42:07
Valve has listed the soon to be available Steam Machines [source ]
General Gaming News
00:50:31
Frozenbyte announces Trine 3 [source ] [source ]
Frozenbyte’s Lauri Hyvärinen about Linux support: ‘It’s alive and well. It’s coming for sure.’
00:51:42
Worms: Clan Wars released [source ] [source ]
00:52:15
Mad Max from Avalanche Studios will be coming to Linux [source ]
00:53:55
Torchlight II available for Linux [source ] [source ]
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and Cities: Skylines to be released on the 10th [source ] [source ]
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Rex Rocket (another port) has had its Linux release [source ]
Sign‐off
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