What games are you playing ?

[erigais]

im the kind of person that will gladly payf or a game i really want to play and lucky for me the two i play the most are free; Heroes of Newerth and Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliances.

HoN is pretty competitive and unfortunately is full of trolls and people who arent too helpful to new players, but if you stick with it and learn the game it can be quite addicting and fun. C&C alliances is also very competitive(for resource control) and is a quite a bit slower paced. both involve alot of killing other human players.

[sealbhach]

Tiny and Big.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9oke6mOZs

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[woodsmoke]

sealbhach

LOL ...tres kewl game! I love the graphics and it looks as if I MIGHT actually be able to play the quirky thing! lol

I did note this in the comments:

Are you going to put the Linux version in the Ubuntu Store? They've got around 12 million users and always starved for good quality games.

woodsmoke

[capt-zero]

Just downloaded and started playing 'Machinarium'. Takes a bit of tweaking to get it to play right, but a must for any adventure fan.

[tek_heretik]

You better be careful, or the patent police may come and confiscate the XBOX from your kids hands! Ha!

Steve Ballmer in jackboots, pepper spray, tazer, lol, that imagery even scares me, heh.

[dequire]

Welllllllllp it's finally official: The Steam Linux Client From Valve Is Coming

Left For Dead 2 will the be the 1st release. New slogen to follow: "Kubuntu: Game On!" ... or something like that.

But yea...a whole ton of games are likely headed our way in 2013, much to the dismay of doubters who were very volcal in saying that it would never happen.

[HalationEffect]

Welllllllllp it's finally official: The Steam Linux Client From Valve Is Coming

Left For Dead 2 will the be the 1st release. New slogen to follow: "Kubuntu: Game On!" ... or something like that.

But yea...a whole ton of games are likely headed our way in 2013, much to the dismay of doubters who were very volcal in saying that it would never happen.

Yep, it's an exciting time for Linux gaming. We already have PlayDeb, the Humble Bundles, Linux Game Publishing, Gameolith, Indievania, Desura... and soon we'll have Steam too.

Further good news: As part of their efforts to port their games to Linux, Valve has been hacking on various parts of the Linux graphics stack and contributing their improvements upstream. Then there's the news that SDL 2.0 is getting close to release. Also, the Unity game engine (nothing to do with the Unity DE) is being ported to Linux.

Things are definitely looking up!

[dequire]

Yep, it's an exciting time for Linux gaming. We already have PlayDeb, the Humble Bundles, Linux Game Publishing, Gameolith, Indievania, Desura... and soon we'll have Steam too.

Further good news: As part of their efforts to port their games to Linux, Valve has been hacking on various parts of the Linux graphics stack and contributing their improvements upstream. Then there's the news that SDL 2.0 is getting close to release. Also, the Unity game engine (nothing to do with the Unity DE) is being ported to Linux.

Things are definitely looking up!

Most definitely. Now all those people who keep Windows on a partition just for gaming will have another great reason to nuke it altogether.

[Equareo]

I'm so happy that valve is dedicating some of their time to Linux. Maybe I don't have to try windows 8 at all

Heres the direct link to valve's official blog, I know I am gonna refresh it several times a week!

[Jonas]

I'm so happy that valve is dedicating some of their time to Linux. Maybe I don't have to try windows 8 at all

Heres the direct link to valve's official blog, I know I am gonna refresh it several times a week!

I think their investment and dedication this is mainly for their own sake and business . I've read somewhere that they have a future plan to make their own console, and not using linux to run it would be - to say the least - stupid. So even if it will benefit the Linux gamers, I think Valve want to make their own machine seeing how lucrative the game(console) market is, and the competition is stiff!

Question I ask myself (edit: and dequire also pointed out) - since many dual boot because the sake of gaming - will this be the end of MS hegemony? I've always thought that gaming have been one of the last bastions that made MS under such control (and all lawyers and lobbyists their money can buy ofc)


edit2;

As part of their efforts to port their games to Linux, Valve has been hacking on various parts of the Linux graphics stack and contributing their improvements upstream.

Not to mention all those Linux hackers and devs that get hired and payed for much of their "spare time" hacking!

None the less and whatever will be happening - it'll be interesting to witness...

br.

Jonas

[SecretCode]

Most definitely. Now all those people who keep Windows on a partition just for gaming will have another great reason to nuke it altogether.

I'm so happy that valve is dedicating some of their time to Linux. Maybe I don't have to try windows 8 at all

Heres the direct link to valve's official blog, I know I am gonna refresh it several times a week!

In their 1 August posting ...

After this work, Left 4 Dead 2 is running at 315 FPS on Linux. That the Linux version runs faster than the Windows version (270.6) seems a little counter-intuitive, given the greater amount of time we have spent on the Windows version. However, it does speak to the underlying efficiency of the kernel and OpenGL. Interestingly, in the process of working with hardware vendors we also sped up the OpenGL implementation on Windows. Left 4 Dead 2 is now running at 303.4 FPS with that configuration.

So ... Windows will be ... left for dead?

This kind of work with graphics hardware vendors by the game developers is probably why Windows gaming performance has been better - not, as they observe, any innate superiority.

I like the sound of this!

[GreyGeek]

So ... Windows will be ... left for dead?

Windows already is world famous for being zombies in gigantic bot farms, so it can, in the least, be classified as "The Living Dead".

(It doesn't amaze me that a Wikipedia article on zombie botfarms does not mention the OS which is the favorite of the bad guys, but mentions Linux twice, referring to researchers analyzing botnets behvior by simultaneously running one million Linux kernels as virtual machines on a 4,480-node high-performance computer cluster. That's like studying a simulation of a Unicorn in order to learn about horses! Somebody's burning up taxpayer dollars studying an extremely rare phenomenon, because there is only one known case of a Linux bot farm, found in 2010. It had 700 zombies and it took a gang of crooks six months to capture that paltry sum.)

[GreyGeek]

I've discovered a highly entertaining mod of Minecraft called "Tekkit". It gives an order of magnitude increase in the creative power Minecraft. There are very entertaining videos on YouTube about it from the guys of Yogcast. Tekkit is to plain Minecraft as a Maserati is to a donkey cart.

Tekkit installs separately from Minecraft and does NOT mix config files or maps, so you can keep and run both on the same PC.

[Simon]

Wow a whole month... hmm, well I realized this month that I was using my Linux more than XP so when the PC had a malfunction and Linux handled it better than the XP side. I just didn't install my XP. Most of the games I play seem to work well in Wine, I think we need to develop hard core games and not allow window users to play them. That would be neat. At the moment I am attending college so I am only playing my Guild Wars, Portal 2, and GTA SA. I am going to look for some games in Linux this weekend.

[GreyGeek]

...
I think we need to develop hard core games and not allow window users to play them. That would be neat. ...

In addition to the many games in the repository, Steam and other game makers have seen the market share of Linux and have begun making games for it.
http://steamforlinux.com/?q=en/node/116

http://linuxaria.com/article/top-10-...n-2012?lang=en

http://www.ftlgame.com/