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Embracer Group swallows up even more developers and publishers
Embracer Group has announced today that they (or their direct subsidiary companies) have acquired a bunch more developers and publishers and so the concerning consolidation continues.
Category: Misc
Get your bag packed for some exploration in the Humble Remarkable Roguelikes Bundle
Love your roguelikes? Humble have a nice little package waiting for you to pick up with the Humble Remarkable Roguelikes Bundle that's now live.
Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 31
Has it really been months since our last episode? Woops. We're back! Introduction the Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 31.
I'm now a true convert after using a Vertical Mouse
After using traditional PC mouse for most of my computing life, I decided to finally see what all the fuss was about with a Vertical Mouse and I'm sold.
Proton 6.14 GE-2 and Wine 6.14 GE-2 are out, easily update Proton GE with ProtonUp
Multiple updates to community-built versions of Proton and Wine, along with a very interesting bit of software to help you upgrade Proton GE called ProtonUp.
Valve fires back in the lawsuit from Wolfire Games
We've been waiting to hear how the lawsuit from Wolfire Games (and others) would progress against Valve, and now we at least have word from Valve on what they think.
AMD and Valve working towards a new CPU performance scaling design for AMD CPUs
With the X.Org Developers Conference 2021 coming up, they've now announced that the initial program schedule is up and there's a fun sounding talk from AMD developer Ray Huang on working with Valve on new performance scaling design for AMD CPUs.
A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through July 2021
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for July 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!
Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again
The day I'm sure many have been waiting for, and just as many probably thought it wouldn't happen. Linux has finally hit 1% again on the Steam Hardware Survey.
You can get Delver, Tower of Time and more in the Humble RPG Heroes Bundle
It seems Humble Bundle are starting to ramp-up their game bundles again and they have another with the Humble RPG Heroes Bundle that has some great games inside.
Wine 6.14 released with Mono updates, more prep work for GDI syscall interface
The Wine hackers have today popped open another bottle to let it breathe for a bit, with the development build Wine 6.14 now available for testing.
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT announced and launching August 11
AMD has lifted the lid on the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, a fresh RDNA 2 powered GPU that will be launching August 11.
You can now support the Flatpak package format on Open Collective
Flatpak is the next-generation of packing applications and games for Linux and now you can directly support it.
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) gets real close to properly working Linux support, free Kythera AI
We mentioned recently that the newly announced Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from the Linux Foundation and Amazon AWS was closer to proper Linux support, and we have a fresh update on that.
Proton Experimental updated for Microsoft Flight Simulator, Origin fixes
Here we go again, ahead of the weekend a fresh version of Proton Experimental has gone live allowing you to test the latest adjustments for playing Windows games on Linux.
AMD remains on-track for Zen 4 and RDNA 3 in 2022, Ryzen 5000 G-Series soon
AMD recently did their Q2 2021 financial results and investor call, and they seem to be thoroughly confident on their roadmap for upcoming advances with the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures.
Godot 3.4 beta 2 is out improving web exporting, crypto, rendering improvements
Technically this is the first true Beta for Godot 3.4 as they mostly skipped the first when it had a major issue. Godot 3.4 is coming with some really great sounding improvements for this cross-platform free and open source game engine.
Humble's Early Access All-Stars Bundle has some fun treats, save on Humble Choice
Want to pick up what could turn into some truly great games? Humble has a new bundle out with the Humble's Early Access All-Stars Bundle.
Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games
Frozenbyte being the developer behind titles like the Trine series, Shadwen, Has-Been Heroes and the upcoming Starbase talks a little about Proton and future native Linux support.
Ray tracing with AMD RADV on Linux gets closer with the 'World's Slowest Raytracer'
While Ray Tracing has been available on Linux with NVIDIA for a long time now, the open source RADV Mesa driver for AMD GPUs is lagging behind but more work is progressing on it.
- GE-Proton 10-4 brings updates for winewayland, AMD FSR4 and more game fixes
- VacuumTube is the best way to watch YouTube on Steam Deck, SteamOS
- XWVM is a modern Unity engine to play STAR WARS - X-Wing, first Alpha out now
- SaveState is an open source versatile game save backup manager - now with Linux support
- Point and click adventure The Mystery of Doomsday Valley confirmed for Linux
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