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Epic Games acquires Quixel with its enormous library of 3D and 2D assets
Epic Games have reached down the back of the sofa and pulled up enough loose change to acquire Quixel.
Category: Misc
Abbey Games announce they're going to let staff go in December as they "scope down"
Abbey Games, a developer known for titles like Reus, Renowned Explorers: International Society and most recently Godhood announced today things aren't going so well.
Microsoft confirm their new Chromium-powered Edge browser is coming to Linux
Not Linux gaming related, sure but still very interesting news. During their Ignite conference, Microsoft confirmed their new Chromium-based Edge browser will release for Linux.
The Sunday odds and ends Linux and gaming section
Sunday is a day to do the dishes, hoover the halls, wipe the decks and probably play a whole lot of video games. Here's our Sunday section of interesting things.
AMD has the highest quarterly revenue since 2005, Zen 3 is design complete
Things seem to be going quite well for AMD lately, as they just posted up their financial results for Q3 and thanks to 7nm Ryzen, Radeon and EPYC processor sales they're looking good.
Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
Time for a good brew, some relaxation, perhaps a little gaming and our Sunday roundup of interesting happening within the Linux and gaming sphere.
Embark Studios, AMD and Adidas are all now supporting Blender development
The team behind the free and open source 3D creation suite, Blender, are once again celebrating as they've managed to secure even more funding from some interesting names.
The Children's Commissioner in England has called on the government to class loot boxes as gambling
Here could be the start of another nail in the coffin for loot boxes, as the Children's Commissioner in England has put out a new report after a little study was done.
Need an easy way to manage a Linux game server? LinuxGSM is great and recently passed 100 supported titles
A project that perhaps isn't as well known as it should be: LinuxGSM makes managing Linux game servers easy and they recently hit a fun milestone.
Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
Sunday is a day mostly of rest, relaxation and kicking butt in some games. Before that though, let's have a little look at a few bits and pieces of missing news and what was interesting recently.
The Internet Archive website has added another 2,500 MS-DOS games
Another point scored for game preservation. The Internet Archive have added another 2,500 MS-DOS games you can play right in your browser.
Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
Almost time to begin another week full of news, before we do let's run over a few interesting happenings recently.
What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
It's reader question time here on GamingOnLinux, something we do infrequently to generate a bit of discussion.
Things are going downhill for the Atari VCS as Rob Wyatt quits
It's now confirmed that Rob Wyatt, someone who Atari made a big thing over joining them has quit citing non payment of invoices for at least six months.
The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA
Following on from Ubisoft and Epic Games becoming Blender sponsors, NVIDIA have also thrown a bucketful of money into the ring.
Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news
Here's a bit of interesting industry news for you on this fine Monday afternoon. Alen Ladavac, who helped to co-found the Serious Sam and Talos Principle developer Croteam has moved onto game streaming.
Throne of Lies ends support for Linux but it could return in future
Joining Rust, Natural Selection 2 and Forager this year is Throne of Lies from Imperium42 Game Studio who have decided to end Linux support for their online multiplayer game.
The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper
Sunday! It's here again already so let's go over some recent interesting news, some sales and whatever else we may have missed during the week that could be interesting.
HopFrog is removing Linux support from Forager and MacOS is not coming now either (updated)
How about a kick in the teeth with your coffee this Friday morning? Well, that's what I've got for you. Developer HopFrog has announced they will be removing Linux support for Forager and Mac is no longer coming.
The clever Steam 'Deep Dive' experiment has a big update with a new matching system
One of the current experiments in Steam Labs is called Deep Dive, which Valve worked with game developer Lars Doucet to create. It's a really cool idea and it got a nice big update recently.
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