0 A.D. Pre-Alpha 2 by: liamdawe 13/05/10 1:39:13
[quote]Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of a second pre-alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. Although it's not a playable release yet, it includes a new pathfinding system, training queues, a dynamic minimap and more. This progress in gameplay, graphics, audio, and GUI brings us closer to the alpha version set in July.[/quote]

I am downloading now and will be sure to have a play tomorrow.

Has been an exciting few weeks recently for us Linux users, all maners of reports about Steam.

The Humble Indie Bundle.

All the backwards and forwards talking about LGP and the now apparently reply from their CEO (who in my opinion if it really is him, they he can't even take a few comments the right way, sad).

And obviously much more.
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Steam confirmed for Linux by: liamdawe 12/05/10 21:47:23
Well here you have it folks apparently Valve has announced that Steam will be coming to Linux after all.

Phoronix article -&gt; <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=valve_steam_announcement&amp;num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=valve_steam_announcement&amp;num=1</a>

Also note the linked website at the bottom of this article noting a uk paper officially stating it too at the end of their short article.

It got me thinking though, is the telegraph just using Phoronix as their sources to say it is coming or has Valve actually spoken to them?

I don't want to get my hopes up over nothing!
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An LGP member partly breaks the silence... by: liamdawe 09/05/10 20:37:51
Well after a rather long discussion with other forum members on the Ubuntu Forums I decided it was time to attempt to get some answers.

For those of you not familiar with the matter Linux Game Publishing (or LGP for ease) is a company who specialise in porting and publishing others ports of games to the Linux platform. They have gained a rather bad reputation for being unreasonably silent with their customer base on ports being done.

To give you examples &quot;Disciples 2&quot; and &quot;Bandits&quot; are 7 years, yes 7 years into &quot;Porting&quot; with no signs of ever being released.

So after finding a member of LGP who is signed up on Ubuntu Forums I decided to ask a few questions to which I actually got a response.

[quote]The community deserves answers certainly, but as has been (somewhat colourfully) pointed out in the thread, there are still the cases of Bandits and Disciples. We want to avoid another story like those, however unlikely that might be.

That said, we are working on several projects at the moment, and I'm hoping we can announce something soon, and I'm talking to our project teams to see when I might be able to pass something on to the community, and as soon as I get a go for that I'll get it out there.

Until that though, there's not much that can be done. I will be running another giveaway soon (prepping a blogpost about it, just checking some things internally first) to try to keep up some level of public activity.

What I'm writing here though is pretty much the same as has already been said before, and in an already inflamed forum thread, it might not help at all.[/quote]

There you have it folks, pretty much the usual response &quot;we are working&quot;, but again no evidence, no nothing, only the usual.

Also the two long overdue ports had a very small mention:
[quote]They are going to be released. Neither of them is getting dropped and we have people working on them, and they are making progress. I have no timeframe however, but I am hopeful we might be able to provide one in not too long.[/quote]

It's a shame because I used to support LGP big time and think they could do wonders for the Linux gaming scene, if they only got their act together and upped their communication a bit.
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