SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:10

Cheese ValiantCheese introduces the monkeys

00:00:23

… and the monkeys reply:

00:00:48

DerRidda DerRidda

00:01:10

John johndrinkwater

00:01:12

Sword swordfischer

00:01:14

Mim MimLofBees

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:02:00

Past Events:

No More Room in Hell [source]

Secret of the Magic Crystals stream [source]

Worms: Reloaded [source]

Counter‐Strike: Source [source]

00:04:38

Upcoming Events:

Left 4 Dead 2 [source]

Guns of Icarus Online [source]

00:04:58

John refers to Eskimos, sweets from a New Zealand friend [source]

Other Community Stuff

00:05:08

/r/Linux_Gaming goes Community Moderated for a month [source]

00:06:02

SteamLinux (The Big List of Games for Steam on Linux.. or something similar) has been moved to JSON format [source]

00:07:26

John, Cheese and Robertoszek have been putting in a team effort to get the remaining cast archives ready. They are ready to go live by … now. Woo!

Steam/Valve News

00:08:15

SteamOS Discussion: Will SteamOS make developers adopt a trend of launching full‐screen and removing launchers in favour of Big Picture?

00:12:18

SteamWorks API now allows Steam Controller support [source]

00:14:42

Steam Family Options

00:16:18

Steam Winter Sale

Our Gaming

00:17:30

What have we been playing lately?

00:17:32

swordfischer ‐ Rogue Legacy, Secret of the Magic Crystals, Legends of Aethereus, Starbound, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome, Prison Architect, FORCED, EDGE, Electronic Super Joy, Dwarfs?!

00:20:25

Cheese ‐ Worms: Reloaded, Assault Android Cactus, Monaco, Spelunky, Planetary Annihilation, Gear Up, Poker Night 2

00:21:00

DerRidda ‐ Shadowrun Returns, DOTA 2, Verdun

00:22:58

Mim ‐ FTL, Slender

00:25:06

John ‐ Gone Home, Legend of Dungeon, Overgrowth

General Gaming News

00:27:02

Assault Android Cactus got a big content update with new levels and new level dressings [source]

00:28:47

Torque 3D Linux port progress? [source]

00:29:53

Spacebase DF9 has had a major update [source]

00:32:55

Humble Indie Bundle PC with Android 8 [source]

Crowdfunding

00:40:22

Mims: The Beginning [source]

SteamLUGcast Discussion

00:43:32

We’re ‘Casually Mature’

00:44:50

Livestreaming?

00:45:29

Twitch/YouTube Live

00:46:40

Twitter cards

00:47:04

John was right, Twitter wants AAC LC in MP4 ☹ [source]

Predictions for 2014

00:48:30

CES is coming up, more machines?

00:50:00

John predicts L4D3 news before summer?

00:50:50

Sword hopes for Netflix and other streaming services

00:51:15

zer0def wanted proof of sightings of Steam Machines in UK ‐ Codemasters [source] Introversion [source]

00:52:27

Cheese predicts Volvo steam machine?!

00:53:25

John predicts NVIDIA Shadowplay

00:53:31

John predicts Twitch support

00:53:47

Cheese predicts Torchlight 2

00:53:52

DerRidda predicts AMD drivers are still going to be awful

00:54:20

John hopes for BBC iPlayer

00:54:33

Sword hopes for better Steam client skinning

00:55:10

John predicts the client will get better caching and handling of offline support

00:57:10

The cast thinks Mantle is going to be a dud

00:57:50

John predicts Oculus will win the VR mindset war

00:57:55

DerRidda predicts Sony is going to make a terrible HMD

01:00:24

John asks the cast about motion control predictions (Leap Motion + DS4)

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.

Visit our site [source] and the cast homepage [source]

Email us feedback, questions, tips and suggestions to cast@steamlug.org

We can be followed on Twitter as SteamLUG, or individually as ValiantCheese, DerRidda, johndrinkwater, swordfischer, MimLofBees