SteamLUG Cast
Half a Million Winners edited by
Shownotes written by 
Introduction
Our Gaming
- DerRidda has been playing Tomb Raider [source]
- Nemoder has been playing Dwarf Fortress [source] and Dota 2 [source]
- HeroOhOne has been playing Dota 2 [source] and Shadwen [source]
SteamLUG Community Stuff
- Past Events
- No More Room in Hell [source]
- SpeedRunners [source]
- Dota 2 [source]
- Insurgency - Day of Infamy mod [source]
- Upcoming Events
- Distance [source]
- Stellaris [source]
- Sword Coast Legends [source]
- Payday 2 [source]
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered [source] Linux port is nearing completion, thanks to ValiantCheese
Steam/Valve News
- Dota 2 Vulkan support has been updated to fix flickering on NVIDIA GPUs [source]
- SteamOS 2.80 Beta released [source]
- Over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold [source]
- As this includes bundled units, Ars Technica interprets this as a failure of Steam Machines [source]
- Steam Dev Days 2016 will take place on the 12th and 13th of October [source]
- The HTC Vive is now shipping within 2-3 business days of being ordered [source]
- Some computer stores in the USA will be stocking and demoing them
Tech News
- Unity Engine has switched to a subscription based payment model [source] [source]
- DerRidda suggests contributing to Godot Engine instead [source]
- Unreal Engine 4.12 is out now [source]
- Includes support for OSVR [source]
- AMD RX 480 has been announced [source]
- VR ready GPU for 199 USD
- Vulkan Dev Days videos are available [source]
General Gaming News
- Gog Connect program has surfaced [source]
- Please Don't Touch Anything is out now [source]
- Dead Island [source] and Dead Island Riptide [source] Definitive Edition ports have been released [source]
- Engine is based on the same used in Dying Light
- Life is Strange is being ported by Feral [source]
- Brigador is now available [source]
- Oxenfree has been ported to Linux [source]
- Torment: Tides of Numenera release has been delayed [source]
- EVE Online has an unofficial native launcher [source]
- Downloads Wine and the game preconfigured
- Rocket League port is almost ready [source]
- Overlord 1 and 2 ports have been announced by Virtual Programming [source]
- Defect is in Early Access [source]
- Salt and Sanctuary [source] Linux beta is now available, thanks to flibitijibibo [source]
- SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell demo has been released [source]
- Hitman [source] has signs of a Linux port in progress [source]
- Many summer sales are running on various game stores, with all the hottest deals
- Gog [source], Paradox Interactive [source], Humble [source]
- Steam Summer Sale is rumored to start on the 23rd
- Crea is now out of Early Access [source]
Crowdfunding
- ZED, a puzzle game by one of the artists of Myst [source]
- Transmission, a mysterious action/adventure game [source]
Sign-off
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