Gaming On Linux

Spaced Out Sunday

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After playing a bit of Overload yesterday, I felt the itch to get spaced out some more. I’ve successfully made it to a moonbase on Phoebe, and my current objective is to rescue workers turned hostages in stasis, and eventually a boss battle with a dick ship (not to be confused with whatever the fuck Jeff Bezos blasted off in recently). Everything from the level design, to the music and pickups brings back many memories of the old Descent games. If AMID EVIL is a love letter to games like Hexen and Heretic, then Overload is easily the modern Descent game. I almost livestreamed it tonight, but wasn’t sure how my stomach would hold up given all the aerial flips you can make in that game. Fortunately I didn’t get sea sick, and I think that clears me to stream it next time.

I’ve also successfully remapped the controller buttons in game, made it more comfortable. Next time I play it on the TV I’ll be ready. 😛

If you have the Steam Controller and Linux you might want to check this out.

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Found a cool open source driver and UI for the Steam Controller.

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They don’t have an rpm package for CentOS 7, but compiling it should be easy enough. This will be really nice for games that don’t cooperate with the Steam UI properly, IOW DOSBox which yes, I have installed under Linux. There are some old classics I’d like to play using the Steam Controller (like Jazz Jackrabbit) which gave me absolute hell under Windows.

Tomb Raider 2013 finally hits Linux today

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Today is a good day to be a Linux user, well, everyday is… but it’s nice to see this game transition over to the open source side.

Now the question, how well will it perform under OpenGL? Tomb Raider was rather taxing on Windows, you needed REALLY good hardware to run it. I wonder how well it’ll handle TressFX.

Linux reaches a two thousand game milestone

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SteamOnLinux

Over at Gaming On Linux they have determined that there are over 2,000 games that run natively on Linux! Things have come so far since the Steam beta, really great to see.

People (who use Windows exclusively) say that Linux isn’t great as a gaming platform, or it isn’t ready. Granted it does have a ways to go, but they forget that Windows had to grow too. In the realm of PC Gaming Linux is getting more attention, and Microsoft is just starting to come back to pretend that they always loved their PC Gamer base… right.