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What Never Was: Chapter II gets a boost from an Epic MegaGrant
What Never Was, a short story-driven adventure game from Acke Hallgren has been given a funding boost for What Never Was: Chapter II.
Category: Misc
XPRIZE Connect is trying to get kids coding with a competition
The non-profit XPRIZE Foundation has announced XPRIZE Connect, a new "learning initiative" with the first being Code Games: A Global Game-Making Challenge to get kids coding.
GNOME and Rothschild Patent Imaging settle
Back in October 2019, the GNOME project announced they had been hit by what they called a patent troll with Rothschild Patent Imaging. Now it seems it has been resolved and it's a big win for open source.
G2A has paid Wube Software over illegitimate Factorio keys
Last year, the website G2A once again went into the spotlight due to their market place allowing anyone to sell game keys and often they're from dubious sources. Now G2A has given an update.
Lair of the Clockwork God becomes the number 1 Steam 250 hidden gem
Lair of the Clockwork God, a game the blends together a platformer with a point & click adventure just recently became notably highly rated.
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.
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.
- 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
- French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown
- 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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