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The Internet Archive website has added another 2,500 MS-DOS games
Another point scored for game preservation. The Internet Archive have added another 2,500 MS-DOS games you can play right in your browser.
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Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
Almost time to begin another week full of news, before we do let's run over a few interesting happenings recently.
What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
It's reader question time here on GamingOnLinux, something we do infrequently to generate a bit of discussion.
Things are going downhill for the Atari VCS as Rob Wyatt quits
It's now confirmed that Rob Wyatt, someone who Atari made a big thing over joining them has quit citing non payment of invoices for at least six months.
The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA
Following on from Ubisoft and Epic Games becoming Blender sponsors, NVIDIA have also thrown a bucketful of money into the ring.
Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news
Here's a bit of interesting industry news for you on this fine Monday afternoon. Alen Ladavac, who helped to co-found the Serious Sam and Talos Principle developer Croteam has moved onto game streaming.
Throne of Lies ends support for Linux but it could return in future
Joining Rust, Natural Selection 2 and Forager this year is Throne of Lies from Imperium42 Game Studio who have decided to end Linux support for their online multiplayer game.
The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper
Sunday! It's here again already so let's go over some recent interesting news, some sales and whatever else we may have missed during the week that could be interesting.
HopFrog is removing Linux support from Forager and MacOS is not coming now either (updated)
How about a kick in the teeth with your coffee this Friday morning? Well, that's what I've got for you. Developer HopFrog has announced they will be removing Linux support for Forager and Mac is no longer coming.
The clever Steam 'Deep Dive' experiment has a big update with a new matching system
One of the current experiments in Steam Labs is called Deep Dive, which Valve worked with game developer Lars Doucet to create. It's a really cool idea and it got a nice big update recently.
No Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation for Linux but Ashes II and future Stardock titles should be
Good and bad news to share this Tuesday morning. Stardock Entertainment have given an update on the status of porting Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation to Vulkan and Linux.
The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper
Another week has passed already? There's simply not enough time in the week! Since we slow right down during the weekend to get a little downtime ready to be fresh for another week, here's some interesting bits for Sunday reading.
The Linux gaming Sunday round-up paper
Catch up on some recent big news and some things we haven't covered through the week on GamingOnLinux.
A French court has ruled that Valve should allow people to re-sell their digital games
Valve and game developers have a bit of a fight on their hands here, with a French court ruling that Valve should allow users to re-sell their digital games.
Richard Stallman has resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation has resigned and he's also left his position in CSAIL at MIT.
You may want to hold off on Linux Kernel 5.3 and systemd 243 if you use a gamepad
Did you do a big system upgrade recently and notice you're having gamepad issues? You're not alone. Time to downgrade perhaps.
Kind Words, a pretty sweet experience about sending and receiving anonymous letters
Developer Popcannibal (Make Sail, Girls Like Robots) just released an updated version of the Humble Original Kind Words with Linux support.
Unknown Worlds are dumping the Linux version of Natural Selection 2
Some sad news to share this Friday evening, as Unknown Worlds Entertainment have announced they're calling it a day for the Linux version of Natural Selection 2.
Seems like Discord's new "Go Live" feature is not coming to the Linux version
Recently, the voice & text chat app Discord released a pretty fun sounding new feature called "Go Live" which sadly seems like Linux will miss out on.
Accelerated OpenGL in a virtual machine is advancing with virglrenderer
Collabora put out a fresh technical blog post today to talk a little about virglrenderer, with the latest version enabling a big leap for accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine.
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