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Testing integer scaling with Valve's gamescope micro-compositor for Linux

By Linas,
20
Gamescope from Valve developer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais is described as a micro-compositor that can spoof a virtual screen with a desired resolution and refresh rate and control/resize the output as needed. Here's a few early scaling tests taken.
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Come watch a Linux game get built up and packed during the Linux Application Summit

By Liam Dawe,
3
As we mentioned previously the Linux Application Summit will be happening online this November 12 - 14, and it seems one Linux game porter will be attending.
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Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11

By Liam Dawe,
18
Collabora have been doing presentations during the Open Source Summit, with one particular talk from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi on the "State of Linux Gaming" being quite interesting. Plus Collabora are hiring.
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Facebook announces their own Cloud Gaming service

By Liam Dawe,
24
Facebook announced yesterday that they're throwing their controller into the Cloud Gaming ring, although they seem to be doing it differently.
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Developer of Hive Time reflects on the release and their pay what you want model

By Liam Dawe,
13
Hive Time from developer 'Cheeseness' released nearly a year ago, and so the developer has written up a length post on the development and the finances. A good read if you like behind the scenes dev info.
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According to a Stadia developer, streamers should be paying publishers and it backfired

By Liam Dawe,
48
After a three day event to show off new games for Stadia, along with three special demos now live you would think Google was having a good time. Unfortunately, one developer derailed it all.
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bpytop might be the freaking-coolest way to monitor your Linux system

By Liam Dawe,
25
Okay, hear me out. You want to keep an eye on your system for things like RAM use, disk space, processor load and more…but you want something a tiny bit flashy that's still simple enough to run in a terminal window? You need to try out bpytop.
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CodeWeavers releases CrossOver 20, big rebranding with 'PortJump and ExecMode'

By Liam Dawe,
10
CodeWeavers, one of the biggest sponsors of the compatibility layer Wine have announced a major rebranding along with the release of Crossover 20.
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Prison Architect turns 5 and gets two classic editions available to download

By Liam Dawe,
1
Today, October 6, Paradox Interactive are celebrating Prison Architect turning 5 years old so they've done something a bit special to mark the occasion.
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System76 are doing some serious magic with Pop!_OS and Auto Tiling

By Liam Dawe,
12
With the release back in April of Pop!_OS 20.04, the distribution made by hardware vendor System76, it came with an impressive Auto Tiling feature that System76 continue expanding.
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SteamTinkerLaunch is a huge all in one Linux wrapper tool for gaming

By Liam Dawe,
26
You all love to tinker right? SteamTinkerLaunch is an open source project to bundle together tons of available extra options for running your Steam games.
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Microsoft Edge comes to Linux in October as a preview

By Liam Dawe,
54
That's right, no need to wipe your glasses as that's a real headline here. Microsoft are bringing their Microsoft Edge browser to Linux in October.
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Valve rolls out News Channels onto Steam to follow your favourite curators - like us!

By Liam Dawe,
6
Over time Steam continues to grow as much more than just a games store, and Valve are showing how today with their next Steam Labs experiment to let you get your news.
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Godot Engine documentation is about to get much better with a new hire

By Liam Dawe,
3
Godot Engine is one of the most exciting, most advanced free and open source game engines around and it's improving when looking at all angles.
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Albion Online continues pulling in record player counts

By Liam Dawe,
7
Albion Online is a 'sandbox' style MMO where you pretty much do whatever you please, and it's proving to be quite popular with a healthy growth in players.
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Borderlands 2 will see no further updates for Linux / macOS from Aspyr Media

By Liam Dawe,
54
After repeatedly trying to get an answer, we now finally have it confirmed that Aspyr Media will be doing no further updates to Borderlands 2.
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What have you been gaming on Linux lately? Come chat

By Liam Dawe,
63
Another week full of game updates, new releases and plenty still to come. Time for another of our weekly chats about all the wonderful gaming we've been doing.
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Skullgirls developer Lab Zero lays off everyone who hadn't quit

By Liam Dawe,
11
Things continue not going well for Lab Zero Games, after many essential staff up and quit over the behaviour of studio owner Mike Zaimont.
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Spiritfarer for Linux is now live on itch.io, dev apologises for ableist writing

By Liam Dawe,
12
Thunder Lotus have been doing well with Spiritfarer, with it going on to receiving very warm reviews and it's now available on even more stores for additional choice but it's not without issues.
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Vlambeer celebrates 10 years of indie dev by announcing time is up

By Liam Dawe,
1
Vlambeer were an indie developer duo consisting of Jan Willem Nijman and Rami Ismail. They recently hit the 10 year mark, and decided to celebrate by announcing Vlambeer is shutting.
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