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The next of Valve's Steam installments is Steam Machines (not Steam Box it would seem).

More here: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

Looks like you can follow the steps on that page if you want a chance at being a hardware beta tester.

They will ship prototype hardware to 300 testers, sometime this year.

You can complete the steps in any order. Once you’ve completed all of the steps, you’ll be awarded a special badge, and you’ll officially be among the pool of people from whom we’ll choose beta participants / hardware recipients.

On October 25th, the list will be locked. So complete the quest before then!

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Today, Valve has announced the first part of it's plan to bring Steam to the living room.

This part takes the form of a free Linux-based operating called SteamOS. No exact release date is available, but they say it will be ready to download "soon".

Quote from their web site:

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

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More here: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

From the BBC:

Valve will next week reveal more details about the gaming hardware it has been developing.

Valve boss Gabe Newell made the announcement during a keynote speech at the LinuxCon 2013 conference.

Industry watchers expect the news to be about the long-awaited "Steam box" that the company has kept under tight wraps.

Story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24125344

Valve has announced Steam Family Sharing which will allow close friends and family-members to play one another's games whilst saving their own progress and achievements, via a shared computer.

Join this group if you'd like to sign-up for the beta.



Press release: http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/

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Crysis is one of those games everybody needs to play at least once. The quality and eye-candy marked a whole new level of realism and benchmarking for computer hardware. Not to mention some really awesome aliens and the first time any game used no gravity.



Crysis actually runs pretty well in PlayOnLinux with a special patched version of Wine only available from PlayOnLinux.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Crysis in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Crysis. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 14 32-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.1
Wine: 1.6-rc4-d3d_doublebuffer

Wine Install

Launch PlayOnLinux

Click "Tools"
Select "Manage Wine versions"

Naviate down the...

Needing some Nostalgic games back in your life? When was the last time you played Doom II, Hexen, Heretic or Warcraft?

DOS Box is a PC emulator which allows MS-DOS games and programs to be run under other operating systems. It was designed with PC gaming in mind, but should also run other DOS programs.

This step-by-step guide leads you through installation of DOSBox and Blood in Linux.



Installation

Open your Distro's Package Manager, I'm using Linux Mint.

Search for DOSBox (double-click to select it).


Click Install.


You will be prompted with a password to install it.


When the installation is done a shortcut is created in your...

Well, we at GamersOnLinux certainly hope it will help:

"Dear old Linux, what are we to do with you? Developed for just over two decades and it's still barely made a mark on the consumer consciousness..."

Full story here:
http://www.techradar.com/news/compu...rning-point-for-linux-on-the-desktop--1151854

Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins.

Now on Steam for PC, MAC and Linux.

Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/237430/

If you havn't played Lugaru: The Rabbit's Foot, then you havn't experienced a martial arts extravaganza!
Your character is a Rabbit with the ability to jump very high and very long distances. His speciality? Kung Fu!
Sneak up on your opponents or utilize a frontal combo attack... Jump off ledges or run up a vertical wall...

The graphics may be dated but the action is a lot of fun... wait, this isn't about Lugaru, instead I'm introducing Wolfire's new game in development:

Overgrowth

Overgrowth is based on the original Lugaru but upgraded on every aspect of the game!
High Definition textures
Bump mapping & soft shadows
Martial Arts fighting with hand-to-hand and weapons combat
Huge maps for with detailed environments
Extremely realistic A.I.
and more...

Watch their development videos to see what is already completed.