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Ready for the Steam Frame, Khronos Group announced a new OpenXR "Best Practices Validation Layer"
The Khronos Group, the stewards of various open protocols like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more just revealed a new tool for XR (VR / AR) developers.
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Sentry gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux
Sentry is a toolkit for game devs to monitor errors, performance and more and now it should work a lot better on Linux / SteamOS with Wine / Proton.
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The Godot Engine 2025 showreel is out
Showing off a bunch of what's capable with the free and open source game engine Godot, the 2025 showreel has been released.
Unity devs are scrambling to update their games due to a recent security issue
The Unity team recently revealed a security issue in their game engine, with lots of developers scrambling to update their games.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) now available for all developers with FidelityFX SDK 2.0
AMD have finally released FidelityFX SDK 2.0, which includes support for FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), so now all developers can use it.
JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine
Godot Foundation announced that JetBrains have become a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine development, helping push this cross-platform open source game engine.
Old School Rally gets hit with a DMCA and taken down from Steam
Showing just how tough game dev can be for smaller teams and solo devs, Old School Rally has been hit with a DMCA and the Steam store page is gone.
Blender 4.5 LTS arrives with Vulkan fully supported and lots of performance improvements
A big day in Blender land with the arrival of Blender 4.5 LTS, finally bringing Vulkan up to full supported status with it matching OpenGL.
Vulkan API developers try to address some developer frustrations with a new extension
Vulkan has been out for around 9 years now, and The Khronos Group continue tweaking it for developers to remove frustrations.
Godot 4.5 beta 1 brings Wayland improvements, shader baking, rendering improvements
Godot 4.5 is going to be an excellent release of the free, open source and cross-platform game engine with a first Beta needing testing.
ACTION GAME MAKER confirm plans for Linux support for the editor and game exports
ACTION GAME MAKER is the brand new release from Gotcha Gotcha Games, who are known for the RPG Maker series and it's good news for Linux fans.
Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.6.2 released
The latest release of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer has been released, with version 2.6.2 bringing assorted improvements.
Khronos Group announce the Vulkan Video Decode VP9 Extension
Another expansion of the Vulkan graphics API has arrived with the Vulkan Video Decode VP9 Extension.
ACTION GAME MAKER devs exploring Linux support for the editor and exports
ACTION GAME MAKER, the upcoming game making toolkit from Gotcha Gotcha Games (RPG Maker series) are exploring Linux support now.
Ubisoft open sourced Chroma, their colourblind simulation tool
Wonderful to see! Ubisoft announced yesterday that they've open sourced their colourblind simulation tool Chroma (UbiChroma as it's called on GitHub), after several years of internal use and development.
Discord wants developers to stick it inside their games with a new SDK
One of the great things about modern online gaming is how (usually) easy it is to link up with friends. You have your friends list on Steam, GOG, Epic and others but what about Discord? They want a bigger piece of the pie now.
Amazon GameLift Streams allows devs to run their own streaming platform - supports Linux and Proton runtimes
Amazon recently announced their new GameLift Streams service, allowing game developers to spin up their own game streaming solutions.
Godot Engine 4.4 is out now with Jolt Physics, Ubershaders, Interactive in-game editing
Godot Engine 4.4 has been released bringing with it a plethora of advancements for game devs, so it might be time to give it another look.
Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages
AI this, AI that - you can't go anywhere without something trying to force AI on you. Usually a company trying to get you to buy into what they've wasted billions on. So indie devs have begun fighting back with their No Gen AI Seal.
The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming
It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).
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