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Humble Bundle plan to put the much loved sliders back on bundle pages
After a bit of an uproar from customers, Humble Bundle have decided to ditch their idea of replacing sliders that let people customize where their money goes.
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Big screen gaming distribution GamerOS continues picking up the SteamOS slack
While Valve continue ignoring SteamOS for now, GamerOS continues to mature the big-screen Linux experience with another big release available to download now.
Humble Choice for May is up now with Metro Exodus, Hellpoint, Fury Unleashed + more
Ready to grab another bundle of interesting games? Humble Choice for May is up now with Metro Exodus being the big headliner game this month.
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It's been some time since we reached out to the community, so here's a reminder: we are completely funded by readers and we need your support.
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a minority investment in Discord
After all that talk of a possible Microsoft acquisition, and then that being shot-down, it seems Discord really will continue solo while pulling in more investors.
Steam Play Proton 6.3-3 is out now with Origin Overlay working, vkd3d-proton v2.3.1
Ready for another fun week testing out more games? Valve have you covered with the latest update to Proton.
The Sunday Section is here for Linux and gaming fans
Another week down, plenty of items missed that we couldn't fit in. Here's your Sunday Section going over a few random bits of news. Grab a coffee and enjoy.
A round-up of some popular Linux and gaming articles from April 2021
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for April 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!
Seems like we haven't seen the last of Spectre, UVA Engineering discover new CPU attacks
Spectre is one in a list of critical vulnerabilities in modern processors that was discovered over the last few years, and it seems it's not been solved yet.
NVIDIA driver 465.27 is out now for Linux
A small stable update is out for NVIDIA users with a new driver 465.27 that rolled out on April 29 adding support for new laptop cards and some bug fixes.
Wolfire Games filed a lawsuit against Valve over abuse of their market position
Here we go again, yet another lawsuit has been filed against Steam developer Valve Software over an alleged abuse of their market position with their 30% cut.
Collabora take another shot at futex2 Linux Kernel syscalls to help Linux gaming
Collabora developers have been working for some time on back-end Linux Kernel improvements to help Linux gaming, and Wine / Steam Play Proton - the latest patches have now been posted for futex2.
Google finally adds a search bar to Stadia, some big UI changes coming that look good
It's hard to believe that Google, leader of the search engines took this long to implement search into Stadia but it's finally here. The Stadia team also announced some good other changes coming.
Entroware reveal their refreshed Apollo with 11th Gen Intel and Iris Xe Graphics
Looking for your next Ubuntu powered ultrabook? We might have what you're looking for with the new Entroware Apollo.
Trine 4, Hotline Miami 2 and Floor Kids for Stadia Pro in May and more updates
The next set of games coming to Stadia Pro has been announced with Trine 4, Hotline Miami 2 and Floor Kids plus April 30 is your last chance to grab some of them.
Seems like game store GOG is doing well overall in their new figures with revenue up 114%
Taking a leaf out of Steam's book here perhaps on sharing a little more, GOG have for the first time ever, given an overview of how the store is doing and it's looking good.
VKD3D-Proton 2.3.1 rolls out along with a quick-fix to Proton Experimental
Valve contractors and CodeWeavers continue tweaking VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 over Vulkan with another fresh update out now, and a small update to add it into Proton Experimental.
Vulkan gets a new extension to aid API-translation layers like OpenGL on top of Vulkan
The Vulkan API has been updated once again with the latest 1.2.177 spec update available, and curiously it pulls in a new extension to help API translation layers.
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux version 1.5.8 is out fixing a critical bug
Have plenty of games on the Epic Games Store? The Heroic Games Launcher continues maturing to allow you to download and play them on Linux through a native application.
Collabora using AI to enhance VR hand tracking in Monado, the open-source OpenXR runtime
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) is continuing to be a very interesting space with lots of innovation going on and Collabora are at the front of this with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.
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- NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)
- OptiScaler tool gets a huge new release with more upscaling and frame generation goodies
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