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.
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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.
Voidpoint have said they will not be "censoring" Ion Fury by removing stupid gay joke
Voidpoint, what are you doing? I am so confused at this point. After releasing a statement we posted last week in our Ion Fury post, the team at Voidpoint now seem to be doing something of a ridiculous U-turn.
Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE no longer coming to Linux after the successful Kickstarter
After a successful Kickstarter that planned Linux support and now being released on Steam, the developer of Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE has issued a post about platforms no longer happening.
What have you been playing this week and what are you clicking on this weekend?
Another week has almost finished, it's now the weekend and it's super hot here which means it's time to hide indoors and play games.
System76 announce their own graphical Firmware Manager
System76, the company known for their Linux hardware and the Pop!_OS Linux distribution recently announced their new Firmware Manager.
The situation with Blood: Fresh Supply getting a Linux version is looking a little unclear
Blood: Fresh Supply is the revamp of the classic 90's first-person shooter Blood, released by Nightdive Studios in May this year. It seems updates to it have come to an end.
The team behind SUPERHOT are now helping to fund other indie games
A nice story for a Friday morning as the SUPERHOT team have announced SUPERHOT PRESENTS, a fund to help other indie game developers who don't want or need a publisher.
Facepunch adjust their Linux plans for Rust, refunds being offered as it won't continue at all
As an update to the Rust situation, Facepunch have now changed their plans for the Linux version. They've decided to offer refunds, as they won't continue it at all.
G2A have extended the deadline for their proposed key-blocking tool, as more developers are unhappy with them
Recently, after G2A appeared in the spotlight once again for being terrible, they offered to make a key-blocking tool for developers.
Putting a Linux game on Steam: Missing Executable - a common pitfall for game devs
This comes up so often when testing games for developers and surprisingly often for newly released Linux games - a missing download.
Facepunch Studios confirm their plan for the Linux version of Rust, to be split from Windows & Mac
Garry Newman from Facepunch Studios has put out a new blog post detailing their final plans for the Linux version of the survival game Rust.
KDE has an unpatched security issue that's been made public
Here's your morning dose of uh-oh, a security researcher has made an unfortunate vulnerability in KDE public. Not something we usually cover, but since there's no fix available it's worth letting you know.
Psyonix are removing randomized loot boxes from Rocket League
Rocket League, the awesome sports game about smacking balls into goals using rocket powered cars is going through some changes.
Looks like we might see the end of developers constantly changing their Steam release date
Steam isn't perfect, that's for sure and one particular issue that constantly comes up is how some developers have been abusing the release date display.
What have you been clicking on this weekend?
The weekend is almost over and a nice week full of news is about to begin. Before it does, let's get talking! What have you been playing?
Blender 2.80 is out, a major advancement for this FOSS 3D creation suite
Hot on the heels of the announcements of both Epic Games and Ubisoft supporting further Blender development, the massive Blender 2.80 release is now available.
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