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Star Citizen - Space Sim MMORPG on Kickstarter!

*** Update: ***
 GLXP posted about it on FB!

 https://www.facebook.com/googlelunarxprize/posts/284421335009192
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Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen
Website: http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/
Donate at kickstarter, because funds at kickstarter help stretch goals both at kickstarter AND the website!! =)
The whole project is funded, with 19 days to go and rapid increasing in funding.

I've always wanted an MMORPG Space Sim with FPS elements. Sort of like Precursors with multiplayer and a persistent player-affected evolving universe. It would be up there with my favourite games of all time (Tribes 1- Annihilation mod, Team Fortress 2). The Freelancer, X series, Vega Strike and Wing Commander (this made by the same company) have all been great space sims, but I think lacked planetary/out of cockpit exploration/gameplay. 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen/posts/332531 
This update post answered all my questions lol. 
While they said has "first person shooter" elements like running around on the ship, the demo vid only has 3rd person running around on the flight deck. Planetary exploration is probably what will tip me to buying it, but they're not promising it T_T
I liked Precursors as it was as much a normal FPS/RPG on planets and ships/stations as it was space ship pew pews complete with space anomalies, upgrades, the works. 
 
If they do put planetary walk around in, it'll have a leg up on http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=35 [oo Joomla] which allows you to land on planets but not walk on them. 
And at Nov 2014 release date, it looks like it may arrive faster than Infinity. Especially if I get to play the Alpha/Betas.


I will most likely back this, it's sooooo tempting!! Just backed this as the last $30 digital download pledge on Kickstarter xD. Making it the first game related project I backed on Kickstarter, passing by Ooya, Planetary Annihilation, That adventure game,  Homestuck, FTL, etc. Been wanting an MMORPG Space Sim for aaages (Been following that Infinity project for more than a few years now xD) 

Only downsides are: no Linux support on CryEngine3 (although Android is supported), is possible there will be pay 2 not grind instead of subscription, which would be horrible (though you need to pay a once off fee, which hopefully should prevent that, and if the devs are as community oriented as this game relies on, then it would be in their best interests not to payORgrind). They're also allowing community content like TF2 hats and levels =P

Steam closed beta for Linux is here! (+ other news)

You may have read http://vcpd12.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/tf2-beta-on-steam-for-linux.html
Which has pretty cool infos and links =)

If you were lurking http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/ like me, you may have missed this important link:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php
It was open since 27th of October! Enjoy!

You may also want to take a look at:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410

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In other project news:
Ubunchu ch.8 is more than half way done =)

Speaking of manga/anime, check this out:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/news/2012-10-08/astronaut-successfully-dubs-space-brothers-anime-from-space
First voice acting done in space! Woot! =D

Parrallella Epiphany Kickstarter by Adapteva

$100 credit card sized Parallella combines FPGA, ARM, & DSPs. 18CPUs @800MHz with 5Watts! o New vid, so tempting! xD http://kck.st/UGQjG3

I wouldn't really know what to do with it that I wouldn't be able to do on a gumstix/raspberry pi ... apart from BOINC and testing 2048-bit RSA or AES cracking solving chess.

Here's an excerpt cos I'm too lazy to iframe, just click the kickstarter link above for full updates, videos and graphics. The project still needs $185k/$750k in 48 hours so if you want to see this project go ahead, support!

The following list shows the major components planned for the Parallella computer:

• Zynq-7010 Dual-core ARM A9 CPU
• Epiphany Multicore Accelerator (16 or 64 cores)
• 1GB RAM 
• MicroSD Card
• USB 2.0 (two) 
• Two general purpose expansion connectors
• Ethernet 10/100/1000
• HDMI connection
• Ships with Ubuntu OS
• Ships with free open source Epiphany development tools that include C compiler, multicore debugger, Eclipse IDE, OpenCL SDK/compiler, and run time libraries. 
• Dimensions are 3.4'' x 2.1''  

Wow, it ships with Ubuntu ... no more annoying qemu images (from my experiences with the gumstix) I guess =P

TF2 beta on Steam for Linux!

Yay! My 2nd favourite game of all time (Tribes 1 being my most favourite) is here!
http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=os

The above links to the data streamed from Steam CDR (read the about page for more details).
There are at least 38 games listed for Linux, including a lot of games from the Humble Bundles.
It's great to know that alongside TF2, there's Killing Floor =)

Can't wait to get my hands on the client (set to run on Ubuntu and closed beta release this month) and test their >200fps L4D2
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

There's also some good news occasionally updated here:
http://steamforlinux.com/

Google Chrome and them devs =P

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html in an iframe:

Lol. Deving for google MUST be fun =P

Found this while wanted a fast browser for Firefox-not-compatible things and fed up with Chromium as it often crashes now.

Obligatory Linux Fix #?25 - KDE PulseAudio

 saw this:

$ start-pulseaudio-kde
fixed it. yep.

Thanks
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Desktops/KDE
=D

Ubunchu!~

WOW (lolwut). Just found this on linuxmint's Tumblr. ( http://linuxmint.tumblr.com/post/33029338128/episode-12-of-ubunchu-a-manga-about-ubuntu )
There's a manga about Ubuntu?! Seriously?!

https://seotch.wordpress.com/ubunchu/
http://www.aerialline.com/comics/ubunchu (japanese page)
http://divajutta.com/doctormo/ubunchu/c.html (translation project page!)

Another great CC project =) [It's CC BY-NC]
Basically Japanese manga on a computer club in highschool that is discovering Ubuntu.
First made in 2009 so it would be the 9.04-9.10 releases of Ubuntu; I personally started using it somewhere in the 7-8.x range. This was before the polished product 10.04 was though, and none of the stupid Unity stuff from 11.04 onwards (KDE/xfce ftw), so it can't comment on those in the first chapters. However, the series is ongoing, hence the post from mint.

The art's alright (but I seriously don't care too much about the art in my manga/anime - look at Initial D, I liked it a lot but all the faces looked ugly to me =P).
The plot and characterisation doesn't have the depth and force of a regular shonen (ONE PIECE!!! =D) but you do get the regular Japanese manga stuff in there (love the stereotypes, melodrama etc.), and it's interesting to see how a manga would work with the whole topic based on a linux distro. lol.