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dont know much about the port its still downloading. been evidence in steamdb for a while and now its out just in time for steam sales. Civ 5 will have to be lonely for atleast a few days now. will update later about the port quality once i have actually had a go of it!

whats next this week? CS:GO? Stanley parable? nothing?!

https://www.theindiebox.com/

i got a 6 month subscription to this. 1st one arrived a day or 2 ago

every month you get a new mystery indie game in a nice box drm free on its own usb “cartrige”(kinda like a credit card with the usb plug flipping out) for win/mac/linux and from june onwards all games that are also on steam will include a steam key. junes orders are done so july is the next one available if anyone finds this kinda thing interesting. the products priced right imho but the postage is almost as much as the product :( and USPS takes ages to get here i hate waiting for packages from overseas

Planetary annihilation($30): http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250/
sale is on till the 26th of may
they just added the 1st pass of singleplayer its not that great but meh this game isnt really about singleplayer.theres a few IPX guys with copies now too

http://playrust.com/friday-devblog-9/

looks like instead of improving what they have now the rust guys are going to go and redo most of the code and assets. alot of us lost interest in rust in past month or so who knows rebooting might bring the fun back either way i think i definitely got my moneys worth and will visit it again closer to release

also quoting the blog entry:

“Yes there’s no actual benefit to rubbing mud all over your cock and balls. But maybe you want to do that”

WHERE DO I SIGN UP!!! oh right i just opt into the experimental branch i wonder if theres any servers to see the progress

EDIT: branch shows no servers for me looks like it isnt setting up steam integration right atm

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/the-future-of-unreal-tournament-begins...

looks like theres going to be a new unreal tournament there was a bit of talk of a fanmade revival a few months ago and some rumors that epic decided to do it instead a few weeks ago but now its official

looks like its going to be free with a mod marketplace and code will be available to everyone who has a monthly subscription to the unreal engine it also should be out for all platforms hopefully at once

i was a huge fan of the 1st UT sinking alot of the early 00’s into it. ut2k3/4 was ok but i think ut99 was still the best hopefully its more like the original

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

lots of classics system shock 2 is one of my favorite games ever

sadly i already own all the linux ones havent had a chance to play most yet though.

http://www.crytek.com/news/conference-attendees-can-also-see-a-brand-new...

crytek had a listing for a linux dev for a while and a few game devs have said they will port their games to linux on kickstarter while using cryengine but this is the 1st time i have seen it mentioned by the actual guys from crytek. should be good most cryengine games look stunning and hopefully us linux users will get quite a few of the new ones now

lets hope epic games makes a similar announcement about the new unrealengine(unrealengine has been linux supported for every version but this current one and it was promised for that one but ran into some troubles) and although i doubt ID software matters anymore id love to still see IDTech5 but with zenimax leading them i doubt that will happen