SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:10

ValiantCheese introduces

00:00:18

bean (beansmyname)

00:00:21

HeroOhOne

00:00:22

DerRidda

Our Gaming

00:00:44

Bean completed Shatter, played some Assault Android Cactus, and the rather buggy Early Access Storm United.

00:02:10

Hero has also been really getting into Assault Android Cactus, as well as Sir, You are Being Hunted

00:03:50

Cheese played a bit of Invisible Inc., Outland, and Massive Chalice

00:04:17

and concluding our gaming fortnight, DerRidda played Dying Light, completed Arx Fatalis via Arx Libertatis [source] and Game Dev Tycoon, as well as spanking his nephew… in Worms: Clan Wars.

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:11:12

Past Events:

Seriously Casual Serious Sam 3 [source]

Sanctum 2 [source]

Counter–Strike: Global Offensive [source]

00:16:05

Upcoming Events:

Distance [source]

Dota 2 Reborn Beta Custom Games [source]

Guns of Icarus: Online [source]

Dying Light [source]

Other Community Stuff

00:19:55

Hero made a new tux decal for Guns of Icarus Online [source]

00:22:08

Cheese wrote an article on the F/OSS adventure game engine SLUDGE and did a source release of an example game [source] [source]

00:26:15

Cheese has been putting together a Planetary Annihilation unboxing video [source] [source]

Steam/Valve News

00:28:50

Valve sold all pre–order stock by 30th June [source]

00:31:57

Steam summer sale stats: [source]

CS:GO sold the most, ARK: Survival Evolved had highest revenue

Interpretation: [source]

About $160m revenue, 33m games sold, 66% off average, games are played after the sale.

Tech News

00:33:15

DirectX 11 support for wine expected by end of this year [source]

00:35:22

Status of Unity editor on Linux: [source]

Additional article from lead platform developer [source] [source]

00:36:25

Unity Linux keyboard input regression bug fixed in 5.1.1p3 [source] [source]

00:38:48

Somebody built a SteamOS arcade machine [source]

00:40:42

Interview with President of Khronos group, Neil Trevett, about Vulkan [source] suggesting it will be out by the end of the year

00:41:12

SteamBoy handheld Steam Machine now called SMACH Zero and some specs revealed [source]

AMD SoC, 4GB RAM, 720p screen, 4G/Bluetooth/Wifi connectivity options

00:42:03

New stable AMD Catalyst driver for Linux brings OpenGL 4.5 [source]

General Gaming News

00:44:02

Lego Minifigures Online launched with Linux support [source]

00:45:22

Portal Stories: Mel released [source]

00:46:08

Kung Fury: Street Rage [source]

00:46:52

ARK: Survival Evolved [source]

Early Access. Performance report: [source]

00:48:08

The next iteration of America’s Army might be coming to Linux [source] [source]

00:50:12

Coffin Dodgers out of Early Access [source]

00:50:59

Alien: Isolation is flashing its Linux ankles [source]

Wooohoooo \o/

00:52:36

The Talos Principle: Road To Gehenna DLC coming 23rd July [source]

00:53:29

Legend of Grimrock fix for 900 series Nvidia cards (or anything with enough glx extensions) [source]

00:54:40

Team Fortress got a new update [source]

00:56:26

JP LeBreton has done a quiet announcement of the game he’s working on [source] [source]

00:58:11

Distance has updated to Unity 5 [source] [source]

01:00:26

Massive Knowledge documentary is completed [source]

Crowdfunding

01:02:02

The Bard’s Tale IV Kickstarter is wrapping up and has a hilarious infomercial [source] [source]

01:03:07

Defect [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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