Linux Game Cast

The 25th Anniversary Update for Half-Life is crabtastic! ProtonDB adds support for Chrome OS, Xbox cloud gaming on Linux, SDL powered SkiFree, and unlimited Limited Steam Decks.

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00:00 Intro

00:32 Immediate demonetization

03:19 Arch Pedro

STEAM NEWS

06:07 Steam Deck Limited buying restrictions

07:46 OLED eBay scalpers

08:13 Why are people buying scalped Decks?

12:18 Gamepass on Steam Deck made easy

16:14 The no Linux Steam timeline

17:28 ProtonDB ChromeOS support

19:34 Gaming on a Chromebook

NEW GAMES

20:43 Spacecraft Tactics

GAME UPDATES

22:45 Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update

24:19 Open-source crowbars?

28:05 Remaster vs update

30:34 Caves of Qud 7'th plague update

31:54 Necromancy tech startup

NEWS

33:21 Shaky YUZU

37:35 Switch performance in 2023

40:28 Dangers of YUZU on Deck

41:50 Shadow Cast game capture

49:18 Ski Free SDL

HATE MAIL

54:55 Bad gaming distros II

59:00 The worst distro is?

01:00:49 SteamOS on other handhelds

Valve announces OLED Steam Decks! 3DMark Steel Nomad is headed to Linux, TuxClocker gets support for AMD GPUs, a mysterious Half-Life 1 update, and the worst distribution for Linux gaming.

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00:00 Intro

00:35 Dangers of bagpipes

01:33 Hippy junk food

03:15 Audio interface history

07:35 Jordan on team Red

08:32 Smuggling

STEAM NEWS

12:34 Mysterious Half-Life update

15:19 Hiding your Steam activity

16:09 Our embarrassing games

18:42 Honry top sellers

19:24 Adjusting Steam content filters

20:30 Steam Deck OLED

25:56 eBay Deck pricing

GAME UPDATES

28:18 Why City Skylines is slow

31:23 Orbital Scrappage

32:22 Steam Fest benefits

33:05 What defines an asset flip?

NEWS

34:37 AMD drops support for VEGA

40:11 Tux Clocker AMD support

42:16 AMD colour correction

44:08 3DMark on Linux

48:38 Heroic gamescope UI

51:07 Epic store has not turned a profit

54:48 Epic should make a Steam Deck

59:45 Come on the show!

HATE MAIL

01:00:27 Worst Linux for gaming?

Total War Warhammer 3 banhammers community members, EA breaks Aphex Legends on Steam Deck, Counter-Strike 2 kills birds, Microsoft knocks knockoffs, and game training on Linux made easy. Enjoy the show? You can support is directly on https://www.patreon.com/linuxgamecast⁠

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00:00 Intro

00:53 Adventures in French Canada

02:52 Fan of mouse

04:15 Shocking a chair

STEAM NEWS

05:28 Total War boycott bans

10:14 Game trainers on Linux

NEW GAMES

15:20 Soccer With Satan

17:22 Selaco

18:59 New devs old engines

GAME UPDATES

20:09 EA breaks Apex Legends on Linux

23:18 Solaris Deck

24:12 Counter-Strike 2 kills birds

26:42 Microsoft band unofficial controllers

31:34 Capcom vs game MODs

40:08 SiN updated for modern PCs

45:48 Open-source Jak 2 beta

50:15 HL3 VR?

HATE MAIL

53:05 Ray Tracing on AMD

55:21 Custom commands for Steam

Anodyne Remastered drops Adobe Air, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection nopes on Steam Decks, NVIDIA is working on CPUs, and the engine behind War Thunder goes open-source. Enjoy the show? You can support us directly on https://linuxgamecast.com/support/

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00:00 Intro

01:17 Breaking up with Thunderbird

03:48 Defrosting Pedro

STEAM NEWS

07:50 BIG Steam client update

10:08 Playing with gyros

11:17 CS2 Spin Bans

12:27 Steam VR 2.0

12:49 Steam-Boy VR

14:22 HL-Alyx on PS5?

17:55 Steam Spoopy Sale

18:26 VR - The game

23:18 City Skyline 2 performance

NEW GAMES

24:39 Metal Gear Master Collection busted on Steam Deck

GAME UPDATES

30:28 Anodyne Remasters drops Adobe Air

32:51 Growing up NES

37:50 Wee Tanks Halloween update

41:26 Last Epoch 1.0

45:32 Dark Souls online

NEWS

47:37 NVIDIA making CPUs

57:28 Intel stagnation

58:42 AMD Threadripper is DOA

01:02:13 Remembering player 3 in the CPU space

01:02:51 Why Unity rushed out the install-fees

01:09:13 Piracy promotes hacking

01:19:38 War Thunder engine open-sourced

HATE MAIL

01:24:24 Why Lutris is not on Steam

01:31:27 Paying for YouTube!?

The NVIDIA (beta) driver learns a new trick, AYA has a dual-screen handheld, Baldur's Gate MOD management on Linux, Monster Hunter gets Steam Deck verified, and where the $H*T is SteamOS? Enjoy the show? Consider supporting our content directly ⁠https://linuxgamecast.com/support/⁠

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00:00 Intro

01:03 YouTube adblock crackdown

02:41 Ad-free for Patrons

04:04 Making friends in Trackmania

05:01 Babylon 5 cartoon

06:02 Pedro vs copyright

NEW GAMES

07:58 Kona II

10:53 Kona in Portugal

11:59 Soulblind Tales of the Underworld

14:06 Where is SteamOS?

16:07 Linux Devop Cast

16:49 Ghostbusters Steam Deck verified

GAME UPDATES

19:37 Fist Full Of Frags

20:51 Vintage special effects

23:29 Monster Hunter On Steam Deck

24:02 "well" as a performance metric

27:19 Space Whaling

NEWS

27:46 NVIDIA beta drivers

31:38 Improving NVIDIA drivers

33:15 NVENC on Linux

35:55 AYA Neo Dual Screen

37:42 Uses for dual screen handheld?

41:07 Jordan unboxing

42:41 Lutris 0.5.14 cloud saves

47:49 Slay the Spire dev tries GODOT

53:08 Baldur's Gate 3 MOD manager

55:45 Open-source Pharaoh 1999

HATE MAIL

59:59 LBRY / ODYSEE is dead

Steam Next Fest picks! Unity gets a Red Hat, Nvidia 4080 Ti targets AI gamers, Diablo IV is Steam Deck certified, and Counter-Strike drops support for macOS. Enjoy the show? Consider supporting our content directly ⁠https://linuxgamecast.com/support/⁠

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00:00 Intro

01:13 Blue tentacles

01:43 Hipster lenses

04:12 The Pedro gang

STEAM NEWS

05:46 Next Fest picks

09:41 Working with old game engines

10:17 Shaving John Romero

11:36 Steam distributes malware

13:09 Hackers targeting Steam

15:25 Slooow Steam App

17:19 No Counter-Strike 2 for macOS

21:47 Do you game on MAC?

NEW GAMES

20:20 Gearbits

27:08 Cheap storage

27:52 Diablo IV is Steam Deck verified

29:50 Steam Deck outdoors

NEWS

32:08 Nvidia 4080 1/2-2

34:29 Stealth AI card

36:05 Team green Pedro

36:47 Intel 580 benchmarks

40:58 4 new Intel somethings

43:27 RedHat CEO joins Unity

47:38 Microsoft noms Activision

50:12 Bugdom 2 source-code release

53:38 Open RA updates

55:09 EA duality

HATE MAIL

56:57 Wayland 2

01:04:17 How many loopback devices?

Better Wi-Fi for the Steam Deck, Intel has a 3050 killer, Epic updates Unreal Engine pricing, tips for buying used PC hardware, and how NOT to promote your game on Steam. Enjoy the show? Consider supporting our content directly https://linuxgamecast.com/support/

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00:00 Intro

00:27 Knee vs kitchen table

01:49 Screechy YouTube comments

06:44 Furniture and death metal

07:46 Drilling Pedro

08:44 LGC training AI

10:57 Steam Deck 2.0

15:18 Steam Deck dream feature?

19:09 Proton 8.0-4 fixes the SF6 hack

23:07 How NOT to get featured on Steam

NEW GAMES

32:53 Trolley Delayma

35:45 Ludus Mortis

39:15 Jackbox Party Pack 10

41:31 Three Minutes to Eight

43:43 Noreya The Gold Project

GAME UPDATES

46:24 Extraneum 1.0

49:02 A Gang Beast update?

52:03 Quake 2 update 1

54:24 Ion Fury Aftershock

NEWS

57:24 Intel ARC 580 is real

01:03:55 Intel Vulkan improvements

01:05:47 WINE Bottles - TNG

01:10:36 Unreal alters the deal

01:17:15 Steam Spy creator leaves Epic

01:19:08 Jdungeon open-source GODOT MORPG

01:20:02 What defines immersion?

HATE MAIL

01:25:56 Giving up on Linux gaming

01:27:52 Tips for buying used PC parts?

01:31:29 What do you not buy used?

01:42:57 Credits

EA’s new anti-cheat doesn't know how to Linux! Counter-Strike 2 exits the Danger Zone, Valve bans AI translations, gaming on the Raspberry Pi 5, problems with VR sickness, and KDE is for kamers? Enjoy the show? Consider supporting our content directly https://linuxgamecast.com/support/

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00:00 Intro

00:57 Pet lizard

02:04 New camera lens

03:33 Studio One on Linux

04:58 Mom vs Dad

05:32 Where the sidewalk ends

STEAM NEWS

09:02 Steam VR 2.0

10:33 Steam Deckard confirmed!

11:06 AI text banned from Steam

15:17 AI detection systems

15:54 Valve vs regional pricing in the EU

24:12 New EA anit-cheat breaks Linux support

GAME UPDATES

29:28 Counter Strike 2

32:27 15 hours of CS:GO

33:43 What is CS Prime Status?

34:33 Half-Life the movie

35:27 Gaming on the Raspberry Pi 5

NEWS

39:15 Pi 5 preorders

39:49 Are you buying a Pi 5?

44:34 Extreme Pi cooling

47:10 Gameboy with modern power

47:56 Vulkan performance gains

51:41 VR still makes you sick

53:33 What makes you yak?

56:52 Apple iFanny

59:39 Dreaming of boat sickness

01:00:26 KDE gaming

01:04:17 Venn uses KDE

01:07:30 KDE desktop effects

HATE MAIL

01:10:24 Peanut butter facial

01:11:51 RIP open-source nvidia drivers

01:13:49 How long until nvidia open-source drivers are good?

01:15:15 nvidia getting serious about wayland

Microsoft dreams of buying Valve, Unity offers a heartfelt apology, open-source NVIDIA driver maintainer steps down, gamescope could be headed to OBS, and Linux killed Stadia. Enjoy the show? Consider supporting our content directly https://linuxgamecast.com/support/

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TIMESTAMP BUSINESS

00:00 Intro

00:43 Everything is on FIRE!

01:35 Canadian RAID

04:35 Linux car cast with Pedro

05:58 Jitsi Pi project

06:49 DBZ character name?

STEAM NEWS

07:29 Updated gyroscopes for Steam

09:29 Thinkpad nipples

10:07 No Steam Deck upgrades

11:57 Switch 2 vs Deck

12:56 NVIDIA & Nintendo meeting

13:14 Microsoft leaks

13:42 Microsoft was never buying Valve

14:03 You can't buy Nintendo

15:28 GabeN will not sell

18:01 Microsoft handheld

NEW GAMES

19:28 Beacon Patrol

GAME UPDATES

21:32 Hyperpriced Unboxed

25:06 Early access price changes

26:14 Unity is super sorry

36:34 Re-Logic gives $200K to open-source engines

38:45 Microsoft supporting Proton

40:44 Nouveau maintainer steps down

44:37 Linux killed Stadia

50:08 Gamescope powered OBS

54:00 Universal LAN for GOG

HATE MAIL

58:59 Unity derp-fest

59:53 How do you make Unity profitable?

01:06:00 Retro LinuxGameCast

01:08:58 Credits

Unity announces a revolutionary way to extract revenue from developers! Steam celebrates its birthday with memes, gamescope adds support for Reshade on, HDR Steam Decks, and Starfield Linux optimizations. Enjoy the show? Consider supporting our content directly https://linuxgamecast.com/support/

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00:00 Intro

01:14 Back massage

UNITY SHENANIGANS

03:06 Oh hi Scott

04:59 Unity pricing update

10:15 Unity telemetry

12:37 Blocking Unity telemetry

13:05 Unity employee threats

14:03 Retroactive payments

14:29 Lawsuits incoming?

15:33 Next step for developers?

17:14 Rolling back changes

17:35 Is GODOT an option?

19:19 Unity Knowledgebase

20:38 Bad business models

23:21 Lighting money on fire

24:15 iUnity incoming

25:30 Blaming John Riccitiello

24:54 The future of Unity

STEAM NEWS

30:38 20 Years of Steam

31:22 Identify the Valve meme

35:28 First time using Steam

36:54 Green Steam is back

39:25 SteamOS 3.5 and HDR on Linux

42:22 Bluetooth on Steam Deck

NEW GAMES

43:04 Untitled Ghost Game

45:00 Haunted objects

GAME UPDATES

46:06 Starfield optimized for Linux

50:14 $4 Avengers

52:17 StarRim

52:55 Distance retro console port

56:46 Venn played BloodStained

NEWS

59:43 VKD3D Proton 2.10

01:01:32 Direct Storage on Linux

01:02:40 Mangohud with AMD fans

01:03:05 Text outline girth

01:04:09 Steam Mango button

01:05:27 ReShade support with gamescope

01:07:59 WTF is ReShade?

01:08:28 Looking at some Shades

01:12:08 ReShade for Minecraft?

HATE MAIL

01:13:34 Hello from the Soul Reaver project

01:17:29 Moody vampires

01:24:35 Credits