Introduction
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introduces
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Tele (Tele42)
Our Gaming
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has been playing DiRT Showdown [source ], Guns of Icarus Online [source ], and Doom [source ]
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has been playing XCOM 2 [source ], Dying Light [source ], Insurgency [source ]
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has been playing Sir, You Are Being Hunted [source ], GRID: Autosport [source ], Natural Selection 2 [source ]
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has been playing American Truck Simulator [source ], Dying Light [source ], and a super secret QA project
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Tele (Tele42) has been playing GRID: Autosport [source ], DiRT Showdown [source ], and Natural Selection 2 [source ]
SteamLUG Community Stuff
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Past Events
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [source ]
DiRT Showdown [source ]
Insurgency [source ]
Guns of Icarus Online [source ]
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Upcoming Events
Nuclear Dawn [source ]
Space Hulk [source ]
Dota 2 [source ]
Synergy [source ]
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SteamDB Linux page [source ] updated with a graph of the history of working games
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SteamLUG Cast has again been made visible on iTunes [source ]
Steam/Valve News
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Steam beta client update [source ] makes usage of the Steam Controller more convenient
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There are hints that Bitcoin may eventually be available as a payment method in Steam [source ]
Tech News
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Nvidia has released beta driver 361.28 [source ] [source ]
Introduces issue for some games, which can be worked around by setting __GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1
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Amazon released a new game engine, Lumberyard [source ]
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Rumor suggests that HTC Vive pricing will be announced at Mobile World Congress [source ]
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Vulkan graphics API has been released [source ]
The SDK, drivers, examples, debuggers, and more launched alongside it
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Nvidia Vulkan beta driver 355.00.26 supports Kepler and Maxwell series cards (GTX 600‒900) [source ]
Included in SteamOS 2.63 Brewmaster beta [source ]
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Intel has added a Vulkan branch to the Mesa driver, supporting Broadwell and Skylake integrated graphics [source ]
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AMD is to have Vulkan support in an upcoming release of their hybrid amdgpu driver [source ]
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Steam beta client update includes libvulkan in Steam Runtime [source ]
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The Talos Principle is the first game on Steam supporting Vulkan, available in the game’s publicbeta branch [source ]
While being a quick, unoptimized port to Vulkan [source ], the performance is already better than OpenGL [source ]
Croteam wrote a Q&A related to the port [source ]
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Dota 2 with -vulkan
parameter is currently missing a library, but the Source 2 engine is known to have Vulkan support internally
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Libretro has a pull request that adds Vulkan support [source ]
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Godot has previously stated their intentions to add Vulkan support [source ]
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PPSSPP will also have Vulkan support [source ]
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LWJGL nightly builds have Vulkan bindings [source ]
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GLFW has Vulkan support [source ]
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Khronos hosted Vulkan webinar and released recording [source ]
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A C++ wrapper to the Vulkan API has been released by Nvidia [source ]
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Dota 2 Vulkan depot has been updated (not yet released)
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LunarG Vulkan SDK has full Linux support [source ]
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vim got Vulkan syntax highlighting [source ]
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Ryan Gordon is working on adding Vulkan support to the SDL render API [source ]
General Gaming News
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Frozen Synapse 2, an open world tactics game, is to be released in 2016 [source ]
Confirmed to have Linux support [source ]
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Gas Guzzlers Extreme is being ported to Linux [source ]
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N++ is coming to Linux [source ]
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Street Fighter V is expected to be available on Linux in Spring, with help from Valve [source ]
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Sunless Sea [source ] is having a closed Linux beta, available to owners of the game upon request
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Darkest Dungeon port is officially being worked on with an expected March release [source ]
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ARK: Survival Evolved has been updated to have BattlEye protected servers, which are not yet compatible with the Linux client [source ]
Devs are working closely with BattlEye to add Linux support [source ]
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Firewatch has been released [source ]
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A Wine‐wrapped Earth 2160 port has been made available on Steam [source ]
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Dying Light: Enhanced Edition and The Following DLC has been released [source ]
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Layers of Fear, published by Aspyr, has been released [source ]
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SNOW audio is working, but a Steam Runtime conflict has been introduced [source ]
Crowdfunding
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Deliver Us The Moon [source ]
Open world Lunar exploration and survival
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Overload [source ]
Six degree of freedom shooter by the original developers of Descent
Backers will receive a post‐release multiplayer expansion for free
Sign‐off
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