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Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support
For our third bit of Valve news today, they also recently announced that their Mesa shader compiler "ACO" had a bit of an upgrade recently as well.
Category: Misc
Khronos releases the OpenXR 1.0 specification aimed at unifying VR and AR
Today, The Khronos Group has formally announced the OpenXR 1.0 specification as an exciting step towards bringing together the various different ways of interacting with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
Zink, the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan is still progressing
Remember Zink? The project announced in October last year from developer Erik Faye-Lund at Collabora, which provides a Mesa Gallium driver for getting OpenGL on top of Vulkan, well it's still going.
A look over Steam's top releases for June 2019, plus a look at the top games by player count
Just like I did for May's releases, here's a look over the Valve blog post highlighting some of their top games released in June.
Defiant Development, makers of Hand of Fate are closing up and moving on
Some sad news to share today as Defiant Development, makers of Hand of Fate have announced they are "ceasing Development" and the team are "looking for new roles".
Ubisoft and Epic Games are now supporting Blender development
Two surprising bits of news recently about Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite as they've managed to secure some extra funding from two big names.
What have you been playing and what are your thoughts?
It's been a while since I last asked and plenty of games have been released or updated since then. Let's get talking.
Seems that the Linux version of Supraland will not be heading to GOG (updated)
Supraland released for Linux on Steam on July 2nd and it just released on GOG today but it seems the Linux version will not be heading to GOG.
Dota 2's prize pool for The International 2019 has surpassed $25 million, breaking previous records
The International 2019 tournament that starts in August just hit a recording-breaking prize pool sum.
Paradox Interactive on Linux support, it's being done on a "case by case basis"
There's been a lot of chatter in the Linux gaming community recently, centred around Paradox Interactive and future Linux support. It's not all doom and gloom.
It’s a tough time to be an indie developer, with Steam’s new sale event causing wishlist deletions
As an unintentional side effect of Valve's latest sales event, the Steam Grand Prix, it seems a lot of users have begun cleaning out their Steam Wishlists.
Canonical have released a statement on Ubuntu and 32bit support, will keep select packages
It seems Canonical have done a bit of a U-turn on dropping 32bit support for Ubuntu, as many expected they would do. Their official statement is now out for those interested.
Canonical are now saying Ubuntu's 32bit is not being entirely dropped, 32bit libraries will be "frozen"
As an update to the situation around Canonical planning to drop 32bit support, apparently they're not. Instead, the 32bit libraries will be frozen.
What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it? It's mostly Dota Underlords for me
Let's lighten the mood a bit shall we? It's question time here on GamingOnLinux! Let's have a talk about what you've been playing recently.
Valve looking to drop support for Ubuntu 19.10 and up due to Canonical's 32bit decision (updated)
Things are starting to get messy, after Canonical announced the end of 32bit support from Ubuntu 19.10 onwards, Valve have now responded.
Canonical planning to drop 32bit support with Ubuntu 19.10 onwards
As you might have heard by now, Canonical has made the decision to drop 32bit support from Ubuntu 19.10 onwards.
Double Fine Productions acquired by Microsoft for Xbox Game Studios, Psychonauts 2 still for Linux
News just coming out of E3, Double Fine Productions founded by Tim Schafer has been acquired by Microsoft. Specifically, they're now part of Xbox Game Studios.
What are you clicking on this weekend? Let us know your current favourites
It's the end of another busy week for Linux gaming, for many people the weekend is filled full of games.
The dev of "Marble It Up!" had intriguing words to say about the native vs Steam Play argument for a Linux version
Now and then I come across a game on Steam where I ask in the Steam forum about possible Linux support, Marble It Up! is one such game but the developer has decided to let Valve handle it with Steam Play.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS has already sold over one million copies
Smashing Total War records from all angles, Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is now the fastest selling and most popular game in the entire franchise.
- Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet
- Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
- Lossless Scaling Frame Generation for Linux hits 1.0 with a new UI making it easier than ever
- Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat
- Valve finally upgraded the Steam trailer video player, re-encoding around 400,000 videos
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