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Drew Bliss (Valve) said at a speech in the Ubuntu Developer Summit, that Linux is more affordable gaming platform than Windows 8.

Some key points of performance:

- Native Steam works well on Ubuntu.
- Cooperation with Canonical has been very productive.
- Linux has everything you need – a good OpenGL, OpenAL, PulseAudio. Well, on the side of a large community of Linux.
- For Linux will soon be available on the new games Source. (more…)

After the publication of the previous series on kickstarter, perhaps the most interesting episode for GNU / Linux users is the free will of Muscovites Dodo Games, vayayuschih kosmodyaboloid Divine Space, which declared the port on GNU / Linux, albeit with some delay. It also makes sense to shop MORE, where developers have found additional funding (the project has already collected the required amount to kickstarter) and significantly lowered the bar for the release of GNU / Linux-port simultaneously with the main release and Russian localization to quite achievable.
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As is known, this month will begin closed beta testing of the Steam client for Linux, in which 1000 people will be able to take part. The main limitation of the test version is that you can only play in one game, the title of which unless remains under a veil of secrecy.

Not assigning even an approximate release date of final release, Valve has already submitted a list of games that will be included in the stable release of Steam. In an added twenty-one game, and the list continues to grow.
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After the publication of the previous series on kickstarter raided Obsidian Entertainment, under the command of Chris Avelon with the promise to isometric RPG of all time, with the modest title Project Eternity (Project Eternity). Among the quests appear pretty pixelated adventure Sealark, an Oceanic Adventure Game, as well as paper and ink product Papier Adventure.
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A few days ago have been discovered and posted on github , licensed under the MIT, the source code of the game engine Torque 3D . Assembling engine available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is believed that due to good documentation and examples engine has a low barrier to entry.
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In Ubuntu Software Center is now available to purchase a new game in the genre of RPG – Sacred Gold.

This is made possible by the fact that Canonical has partnered with gaming company Linux Game Publishing . Who replied that “the happy beginning of cooperation and non-delivery of top Linux ports of your favorite games from the center applications.”

Sacred Gold

Sacred Gold - Diablo like game released for the Windows platform in 2004.In Sacred player will play one of eight unique characters, traveling over the vast expanses of Ancaria and destroy hordes of undead, bandits and other hostile characters. In the edition of Gold also includes two additions, greatly extending the gaming world, as well as adding new characters, abilities and items.
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Yesterday was the release of a cross-platform framework is presented for the development of 3D-applications PixelLight.

PixelLight can be used to develop any type of application, working with three-dimensional graphics, such as games, interactive simulations or visualizations. Includes flexible scene graph allows to compose and visualize almost any three-dimensional scene.

Written in C + +. Its main advantages are flexibility and extensibility. This is not only 3D-engine, but also a complete framework that allows you to combine all the developers need not worry about the presence and version of external libraries (“all I carry with me»), API, or the operating system. The underlying features of the systems and libraries are hidden behind a powerful system components, which greatly simplifies the creation of applications for various platforms. This set of components can be used for applications such aspects as rendering, sound, physics, networking, scripting, and so on.
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A Regular implementation of an experimental release of open Win32 API – Wine 1.5.10. Since the release of version 1.5.9 has been closed 53 bugs.

Major changes in new version:

• updated version of the Gecko rendering engine to Mozilla Firefox 14;
• added support for DIB-output graphics via OpenGL using libOSMesa;

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Submitted release Warsow 1.0, cross-platform, dynamic 3D-first-person shooter, similar to games such as QuakeWorld, QuakeLive, CPMA and Xonotic. Sources of the project distributed under the GPL. Finished assemblies are prepared for Windows, Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X.

Among the most interesting changes are the following:

• In order to simplify the game left in the game only «strong ammo». Previously there were two types of ammunition. Type of ammunition affect the behavior of the weapons and damage.
• Added indicators allies.
• Optimized loading of images, which significantly reduced the load time cards.
• m_raw for Linux (using Xinput2).

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Journal is published Humble Bundle, but this time without the games. There’s only music from the games:

• collection of They Might Be Giants , the album Raises New and Troubling Questions;
• collection of music, computer geek Jonathan Coulton , the album Greatest Hit (namely the 13 “greatest hits”);
• collection of music man calling himself the godfather of nerdkora MC Frontalot , the album Favoritism;
• collection of music composer Christopher Tin , the album won a Grammy, Calling All Dawns;
• collection of music, the composer of music for games Hitoshi Sakimoto , the album Best of the Valkyria Chronicles.

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