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Microsoft Build - DirectX and Linux (WSL) plus more
During the Microsoft Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft has raised a number of eyebrows at their Linux plans.
Category: Misc
11 years later Minecraft sells over 200 million copies
It's hard to believe that Minecraft, a blocky survival game originally created over a weekend has gone onto sell over 200 million copies.
Come tell us about what you've been gaming on Linux lately
Another week down, plenty of new games have released or been updated and we're about to begin another cycle. Let's have a chat.
Microsoft president admits they were wrong on open source
During a recent online event the current Microsoft President, Brad Smith, opened up a little bit about open source and their previous failures with it.
Move over Stream Deck, give me some Stream Pi
The Stream Deck from Elgato is a nifty little bit of hardware, helping out anyone who does video content have access to a ton of commands at the touch of a button and now it has some more open competition with the Stream Pi.
Egosoft, developer of X4: Foundations talks up moving to Blender and appreciating open source
During a recent livestream, the Egosoft team whose most recently title is X4: Foundations, talked a lot about their plans for the game and they had some fun bits to share on using the open source app Blender.
According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big
It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.
What are you clicking on this weekend? Come have a chat in the comments
Another week down, most of us are still in lockdown with the Coronavirus and there's plenty of time to play games.
Total Mayhem Games drops Linux support for We Were Here (updated)
Total Mayhem Games have announced that We Were Here, a co-op puzzle game series, will no longer support Linux. UPDATED 25/06/20.
If you work for the NHS you can get free games from the Games for Carers initiative
Here's a nice feel-good story for today. If you work for the NHS in the UK, you're now able to get a free game thanks to the Games for Carers initiative.
Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too
VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now beaten the all-time player record of Dota 2
Four years ago, Valve's free to play MOBA Dota 2 hit 1,295,114 concurrent players and today it's finally been beaten by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Voice actor of the Team Fortress 2 'Soldier' Rick May, has died
Some sad news to share today as Rick May, known to some PC gamers as being the voice of the Soldier class in Team Fortress 2 has died after catching the Covid-19 Coronavirus.
GNOME launches a 'Community Engagement Challenge' with cash prizes
With an idea to help get beginner coders interested in FOSS, and to help improve coding skills, the GNOME Foundation has teamed up with Endless for a Community Engagement Challenge.
What have you been playing recently? Come tell us what you think about it
Every so often we like to have a chat with our readers, and find out what you've been really getting into lately on Linux.
Steam and CS:GO just keep knocking down records as Steam hits over 24 million concurrent users
There seems to be no stopping Steam right now, Valve are on a roll with repeatedly breaking their own user records.
The Atari VCS is in trouble again as Rob Wyatt sues Atari for lack of payment
Rob Wyatt, the architect behind the original Xbox and someone Atari hired to work on the Atari VCS system is now suing Atari over their failure to actually pay up.
Terraria has now sold over 30 million copies as they get closer to the massive Journey's End update
Terraria from developer Re-Logic has now officially passed 30 million sales and shows no sign of stopping, as they approach a huge update with Journey's End.
Add crazy effects to your images with 'PhotoMosh', a powerful but easy to use free web app
We interrupt your regularly scheduled gaming news to mention PhotoMosh, a fun and quite powerful free web application to mess around with your images. It's actually pretty cool.
Struggling with regular expressions? Then visit 'Regex Crossword', a site to learn them through a Sudoku-like game
Regular expressions are often difficult for anyone to get their head around and so Regex Crossword turns learned them into a bit of a game.
- It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
- Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is now Steam Deck Verified with a big update
- Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 on Linux, D7VK has a 1.0 release out now
- NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX
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