SteamLUG Cast
Lord of the Spoilers edited by
Shownotes written by 
Introduction
- DerRidda introduces
- HeroOhOne and
- johndrinkwater
Our Gaming
- John briefly covers a few games he played since the last cast appearance, starting with Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Terraria which is now out of beta, along with Synergy and Codename: CURE. DOTA2 is also mentioned, using the client to watch The International 5.
- DerRidda played some of the above, and two more titles, Knights of the Old Republic II, and Middle‐earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Hero shares this small selection of what he has been running: Running with Rifles, Borderlands: The Pre‐Sequel, CS:GO, and Guns of Icarus: Online.
SteamLUG Community Stuff
- Past Events:
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare [source] Hero’s stream [source]
- BlazeRush [source] Hero’s other stream [source]
- Synergy [source] entire Half‐Life 2 campaign was completed in co‐op
- Worms: Clan Wars [source]
- Upcoming Events:
- Codename CURE [source] [source]
- Planetary Annihilation, which recently had an update that adds asteroids [source] [source]
- Half Life: Deathmatch [source]
- Mercenary Kings [source]
Steam/Valve News
- Security flaw in password reset [source]
- Without Steam Guard protection via email, resetting password was possible. If you use Steam Guard, you are safe. Valve already fixed that. [source]
- John mentions the SteamDB security letter [source] with the forthcoming letter being unpublished so far
- Bug in Steam Client accessing library folders with kernel 3.13.0-59 [source]
- Fixed [source]
- SteamOS Weekend Sale 31/06 – 03/07 [source]
- 33 Linux games (HL3 confirmed /s)
Tech News
- Interview with Croteam about Linux [source]
- John mentions he has linked this as we missed it originally.
SIGGRAPH
- Vulkan talks by Khronos Group at SIGGRAPH [source]
- Nvidia has a Vulkan talk at SIGGRAPH on Sunday
- ‘The Time Has Come: Powerful Profiling and Debugging Tools Arrive for Linux and OpenGL With NVIDIA’s Linux Graphics Debugger’ [source] [source]
- AMD GDCE talk on Vulkan [source]
- Nvidia releases 355.06 beta driver with changes to the build system [source]
- AMDGPU support was added to MESA’s DRM lib [source]
General Gaming News
- Talos Principle DLC, Road to Ghenna, mentioned in s03e13 now launched and review/feedback is good! [source]
- The International 5 is currently taking place, has a $18,287,615 prize pool [source] [source]
- John mentions ‘TI5 All Star Match Team BigDaddyN0tail vs Chuan’ [source]
- Don’t Be Patchman ‐ Linux exclusive game launches on Steam in Early Access [source]
- Windows Version is also coming, but developers focus on Linux for Early Access
- Natural Selection 2 Derelict update [source]
- Adds a new map, general performance improvements with Linux fixes focussing on file system perf, and other small improvements.
- Retro City Rampage DX released [source]
SPOILER WARNING
- Middle‐earth: Shadow of Mordor released, launched together with SteamOS weekend sale [source]
More General Gaming News
- Assault Android Cactus reaches beta [source]
- AdVenture Capitalist now on Linux [source]
- Beware when using a non en_US.UTF-8 locale. Game doesn’t work correctly, also savegame gets corrupted and has to be reset: [source]
- Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked announced [source]
- Star Citizen: Linux Client in a not too distant future [source] [source]
- Alien: Isolation port proceeding. Depots already have content! [source]
- Trine 3 ends early access on 20th August [source]
- ‘The Linux and Mac versions are underway and we’ll hopefully have something to show soon!’
- Humble Jumbo Bundle 4 added Screencheat and Freedom Planet with DRM free and Steam Linux versions.
- Humble Bandai Namco Bundle, includes Deadcore for Linux [source]
- DerRidda mistakenly says Homefront when he meant to say Homeworld:
- ‘Sorry, Linux players ‒ no planned Linux version at this time.’ Aspyr ported Homeworld Remastered Collection to Mac. [source]
- Let Gearbox and Aspyr know: Linux versions are desired!
- Motörhead themed expansion for Victor Vran [source]
- Homefront: The Revolution resurfaces at Gamescom 2015 and is still headed to Linux [source] [source]
- Paradox studio Colossal Order show off first Cities: Skyline expansion After Dark [source]
- Paradox studio Obsidian showed Pillars of Eternity expansion on stage (release 25th August)
- Paradox announced a new game, Stellaris, a grand strategy 4X space game, [source], coming to Linux. [source]
Crowdfunding
- Everspace, an Arcade Space Sim with rogue‐like elements [source]
- Unreal Engine 4 by former Galaxy on Fire 2 developers, definitely plan a Linux release. Corben got this as reply [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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