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Come watch a Linux game get built up and packed during the Linux Application Summit
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.
Category: Misc
Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11
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.
Facebook announces their own Cloud Gaming service
Facebook announced yesterday that they're throwing their controller into the Cloud Gaming ring, although they seem to be doing it differently.
Developer of Hive Time reflects on the release and their pay what you want model
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.
According to a Stadia developer, streamers should be paying publishers and it backfired
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.
bpytop might be the freaking-coolest way to monitor your Linux system
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.
CodeWeavers releases CrossOver 20, big rebranding with 'PortJump and ExecMode'
CodeWeavers, one of the biggest sponsors of the compatibility layer Wine have announced a major rebranding along with the release of Crossover 20.
Prison Architect turns 5 and gets two classic editions available to download
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.
System76 are doing some serious magic with Pop!_OS and Auto Tiling
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.
SteamTinkerLaunch is a huge all in one Linux wrapper tool for gaming
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.
Microsoft Edge comes to Linux in October as a preview
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.
Valve rolls out News Channels onto Steam to follow your favourite curators - like us!
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.
Godot Engine documentation is about to get much better with a new hire
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.
Albion Online continues pulling in record player counts
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.
Borderlands 2 will see no further updates for Linux / macOS from Aspyr Media
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.
What have you been gaming on Linux lately? Come chat
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.
Skullgirls developer Lab Zero lays off everyone who hadn't quit
Things continue not going well for Lab Zero Games, after many essential staff up and quit over the behaviour of studio owner Mike Zaimont.
Spiritfarer for Linux is now live on itch.io, dev apologises for ableist writing
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.
Vlambeer celebrates 10 years of indie dev by announcing time is up
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.
Linux Format has a Collabora dev talk about Steam's Linux container 'Pressure Vessel'
Linux Format issue 267 went out today (not affiliated) and in it there's a rather wonderful interview with Simon McVittie, a software engineer at Collabora who also works on things for Valve to do with Steam on Linux.
- Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
- Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler
- 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
- Chiaki-ng the open-source PlayStation Remote Play app gets better streaming quality and stability
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- Away all of next week
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