DerRidda, Cheese and Bean discuss the last fortnight’s gaming news and SteamLUG community happenings including Dying Light, Grim Fandango Remastered, Apotheon, SteamLUG Community Curation and more.

Introduction

  • 00:00:15 Cheese (@ValiantCheese)
  • 00:00:17 bean (@beansmyname)
  • 00:00:20 DerRidda (@DerRidda)

Our Gaming

  • 00:00:39 bean has been playing BL: TPS (Lady Hammerlock DLC), Grim Fandango Remastered (tank controls and original graphics), Borderlands 2, Guns of Icarus Online, Cosmochoria, Syder Arcade, Beat Hazard, Assault Android Cactus, Starbound, Zen Bound 2, Natural Selection 2, Little Racers STREET
  • 00:01:50 DerRidda has been playing CS:GO, Dying Light, Fahrenheit, Pulsar: Lost Colony, Starbound
  • 00:02:10 Cheese has been playing Apotheon, Guns of Icarus Online, Race The Sun, Portal 2, Massive Chalice, Assault Android Cactus, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Starbound, Another World, Grim Fandango, Violett, Chasm, Invisible Inc.

SteamLUG Community Stuff

  • 00:04:20 Past events
  • Little Racers STREET [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/127557410120029943]
  • Serious Sam 3 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/127557410120191873]
  • Starbound [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/127557410120901763] steam://connect/gs2.de.steamlug.org:21025 steam://connect/gs1.us.steamlug.org:21025
  • Dota 2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/127557410120905013]
  • 00:12:06 Upcoming events
  • TF2 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916203473]
  • Altitude [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916203618]
  • BattleBlock Theatre [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916213475]
  • Fistful of Frags [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916213544]
  • February Events schedule [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/announcements/detail/1163009689165329]

Other Community Stuff

  • 00:12:38 Game Club playing Grim Fandango (w/special guests!) [http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/16384/]
  • 00:15:24 SteamLUG has community curation - the key word is community [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#curation] [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/616188677755298516/]
  • 00:16:59 Discussions threads for listing curators and reviewers in the SteamLUG [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/611696927927540165/] [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/611696927927722484/]
  • 00:18:16 John (@johndrinkwater) has been working hard on the SteamLUG site revamp [https://staging.steamlug.org/]
  • 00:18:44 Ryan Gordon (@icculus) aka "The Linux Game Industry" will be on the next SteamLUG cast [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug#events/116300968916246215]

Steam/Valve News

  • 00:20:50 Steam beta testing HTML5 for video streaming with Free to Play [https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/560923453323505664] steam://run/343450/

Tech News

  • 00:22:13 nVidia GTX 970 can address only the first 3.5 GB of its RAM with high speed [http://anandtech.com/show/8931/nvidia-publishes-statement-on-geforce-gtx-970-memory-allocation]
  • DerRidda (@DerRidda) highly recommends vieweing the PCPer video regarding this issue [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74MYv8ldXc]
  • 00:26:54 Valve, EA, Epic and others to hold a presentation about GLNext at GDC [http://schedule.gdconf.com/session/glnext-the-future-of-high-performance-graphics-presented-by-valve]
  • 00:29:28 .NET core Common Language Runtime is now open source on github [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2015/02/03/coreclr-is-now-open-source.aspx]
  • Linux and Mac implementations coming soon [http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/dotnet-integration/]

General Gaming News

  • 00:31:55 GOG.com added more Linux versions: Crimsonland and Wasteland 1 [https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/558816526728720385]
  • 00:34:59 "This isn't your father's Humble Bundle"
  • 00:37:20 Dying Light released for Linux [http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/121929834594720333]
  • Early patches address cheating and running the game on pre Intel i5/i7 and AMD FX processors [http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/112923269185739891] [http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/112923269201683635]
  • Game process priority also fixed -> DerRidda spotted this bug previously [http://steamcommunity.com/app/239140/discussions/0/613948093895746674/]
  • 00:40:57 Raven’s Cry released [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/raven%E2%80%99s-cry-released-on-linux-still-a-bit-buggy.4906]
  • 00:42:14 Grim Fandango Remastered released [http://store.steampowered.com/app/316790/]
  • Cheese (@ValiantCheese) wrote a short, short article on it [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/unfurl-your-scythes-grim-fandango-is-now-available.4889/]
  • 00:45:12 Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered released [http://store.steampowered.com/app/312840/]
  • 00:47:20 Apotheon, ported by flibitijibibo (@flibitijibibo), is in open beta [http://www.apotheongame.com/] [http://steamcommunity.com/app/208750/discussions/0/606068060820669570/]
  • 00:48:30 New beta for Linux of The Witcher 2 [https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues#announcements]
  • Linus Torvalds comments on the kernel bug and suggests that games could make good tests for "odd behavior..." [https://github.com/virtual-programming/witcher2-linux/issues/89#issuecomment-70857835]
  • 00:53:31 Black Forest Games is taking Linux ports back in-house
  • Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and Dieselstormers might have a same-day Linux release [http://steamcommunity.com/app/223220/discussions/0/540744936190211502/#c620703493337013841]
  • Screenshots of Giana Sisters running on SteamOS [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g25lsy6qrgl4rsj/AADeMM-bLPMxoev8aCWPADOUa?dl=0422388977#c611696927910993184]
  • 00:55:56 Penumbra: Necrologue mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent out now on Steam [http://store.steampowered.com/app/346290/]
  • Some people have had issues installing it [http://steamcommunity.com/app/57300/discussions/0/604941528489440402/#p1]
  • 00:57:06 Leadwerks player, which allows playing Lua-based Leadwerks titles without the engine [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=384856486]

Other News

  • 00:59:21 John (@johndrinkwater) has posted the existing backlog of SteamLUG Cast episodes on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/user/steamlug]

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