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KDE has an unpatched security issue that's been made public

By Liam Dawe, 7 Aug 2019

Here's your morning dose of uh-oh, a security researcher has made an unfortunate vulnerability in KDE public. Not something we usually cover, but since there's no fix available it's worth letting you know.

Psyonix are removing randomized loot boxes from Rocket League

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2019

Rocket League, the awesome sports game about smacking balls into goals using rocket powered cars is going through some changes.

Looks like we might see the end of developers constantly changing their Steam release date

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2019

Steam isn't perfect, that's for sure and one particular issue that constantly comes up is how some developers have been abusing the release date display.

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What have you been clicking on this weekend?

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2019

The weekend is almost over and a nice week full of news is about to begin. Before it does, let's get talking! What have you been playing?

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Blender 2.80 is out, a major advancement for this FOSS 3D creation suite

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jul 2019

Hot on the heels of the announcements of both Epic Games and Ubisoft supporting further Blender development, the massive Blender 2.80 release is now available.

Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jul 2019

For our third bit of Valve news today, they also recently announced that their Mesa shader compiler "ACO" had a bit of an upgrade recently as well.

Khronos releases the OpenXR 1.0 specification aimed at unifying VR and AR

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2019

Today, The Khronos Group has formally announced the OpenXR 1.0 specification as an exciting step towards bringing together the various different ways of interacting with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

Zink, the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan is still progressing

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2019

Remember Zink? The project announced in October last year from developer Erik Faye-Lund at Collabora, which provides a Mesa Gallium driver for getting OpenGL on top of Vulkan, well it's still going.

A look over Steam's top releases for June 2019, plus a look at the top games by player count

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

Just like I did for May's releases, here's a look over the Valve blog post highlighting some of their top games released in June.

Defiant Development, makers of Hand of Fate are closing up and moving on

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

Some sad news to share today as Defiant Development, makers of Hand of Fate have announced they are "ceasing Development" and the team are "looking for new roles".

Ubisoft and Epic Games are now supporting Blender development

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2019

Two surprising bits of news recently about Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite as they've managed to secure some extra funding from two big names.

What have you been playing and what are your thoughts?

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2019

It's been a while since I last asked and plenty of games have been released or updated since then. Let's get talking.

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Seems that the Linux version of Supraland will not be heading to GOG (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2019

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Supraland released for Linux on Steam on July 2nd and it just released on GOG today but it seems the Linux version will not be heading to GOG.

Dota 2's prize pool for The International 2019 has surpassed $25 million, breaking previous records

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2019

The International 2019 tournament that starts in August just hit a recording-breaking prize pool sum.

Paradox Interactive on Linux support, it's being done on a "case by case basis"

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2019

There's been a lot of chatter in the Linux gaming community recently, centred around Paradox Interactive and future Linux support. It's not all doom and gloom.

It’s a tough time to be an indie developer, with Steam’s new sale event causing wishlist deletions

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2019

As an unintentional side effect of Valve's latest sales event, the Steam Grand Prix, it seems a lot of users have begun cleaning out their Steam Wishlists.

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Steam

Canonical have released a statement on Ubuntu and 32bit support, will keep select packages

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2019

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It seems Canonical have done a bit of a U-turn on dropping 32bit support for Ubuntu, as many expected they would do. Their official statement is now out for those interested.