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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number will launch this year at some point between July and September, according to publisher Devolver Digital and developer Dennaton Games. The game’s official Twitter account announces the sequel to 2012’s brutal 2D action game will land within the Q3 2014 period. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong …
Read More »Don’t Starve surpasses 1m players, Klei mulling Vita and mobile
Indie developer Klei Entertainment has revealed its open world survival horror game Don’t Starve has accumulated 1m players on the PC platform alone. Speaking with Edge, Klei’s Corey Rollins revealed the figure was actually reached ahead of the title’s release on PS4. Well before the end of 2013 we had …
Read More »Valve becomes supporting member of The Linux Foundation
Valve has joined non-profit group The Linux Foundation as part of its ongoing investment into the budding OS as a gaming platform. "Joining the Linux Foundation is one of many ways Valve is investing in the advancement of Linux gaming," Valve’s Mike Sartain said. "Through these efforts we hope to …
Read More »Valve joins Linux Foundation
Managing body of open source OS gets its biggest gaming backer yet
Read More »Power towers: Upgrade your workstation
Develop traces the latest hardware available to upgrade your game development muscle
Read More »Hansoft releases Linux client and server
Agile software development tool now available across Linux, OS X and Windows platforms
Read More »DICE: Linux needs one killer app to take off
'We strongly want to get into Linux for a reason,' says creative director
Read More »Linux just one ‘killer’ game away from gaming explosion, DICE believes
All it will take is one ‘killer’ game for open-source OS Linux for the platform to make a significant mark on gaming. That’s according to DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson who told Polygon that the EA-owned studio would very much like the operating system to establish itself. "We strongly want …
Read More »Tizen: The new mobile OS championing openness
Develop speaks to Linux about its new open source OS that is being embraced by Samsung and mobile SDK providers
Read More »Valve unveils SteamOS
Steam for Linux becomes Linux for Steam in first of three major announcements
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