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SDL2 has pulled in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter
SDL2, the cross-platform development library has now merged in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter.
Category: Misc
Seems like there's no hope for BattlEye support within Steam Play
With Valve and Easy Anti-Cheat in talks to get EAC supported within Steam Play, many readers asked about BattlEye as it's another anti-cheat solution blocking games actually working with Steam Play on Linux. I now have an answer on that.
Ryan Gordon is re-working "sdl12-compat", a tool to provide SDL2 to software using SDL1.2
This is pretty fun! Game porter Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has announced that they've picked back up an older project called sdl12-compat, which provides SDL2 compatibility for older software stuck on SDL1.2.
Cities: Skylines turns four years old, has some impressive stats
Cities: Skylines, probably the best city-builder available on Linux has turned four years old and Paradox have released some impressive stats on it.
Paradox Interactive sale going on Humble Store and Paradox have opened a new studio
Two bits of Paradox Interactive stuff to cover today! First, the have a big sale going on the Humble Store with loads of Linux games and they've also opened a new game dev studio.
A look at some sales figures for Spinnortality, a cyberpunk management sim
For those interested in seeing how well indie games are selling, developer James Patton who made Spinnortality has given out some interesting details including a breakdown per-platform.
ProtonDB released another data dump, here's a quick look over some February 2019 info
ProtonDB, the rather nice ratings website where you can go and give your thoughts on games played through Steam Play put out another data dump, here's a look inside.
GOG are ending their 'Fair Price Package program', soon after letting staff go
It appears things aren't going overly well for game store GOG at the moment, under increasing competition they're starting to feel the heat.
A reminder about Steam's platform-specific wishlist feature you should be using
Back in 2017, Valve rolled out a small change to the wishlist feature on Steam that quite a few people still don't know about.
Surviving Mars gains official modding support outside of Steam
For those players who picked up Surviving Mars outside of Steam through stores like GOG or the Paradox Store (to use in the Paradox Launcher), you can now add in some mods.
What have you been playing recently and what do you think of it?
It's question time once again, time to tell the world what you've been playing and let us know if it's worth getting.
Six years ago today, Steam was released for Linux - Happy Birthday
Happy official birthday to the Steam client for Linux, today marks six years since it released for everyone.
Gaming and Linux graphics talks at FOSDEM 2019
I spent the last weekend in Brussels, Belgium attending the FOSDEM conference -- a free event focused on free open-source software, and a place where free-software developers can meet, share idea and collaborate.
Details on how Slay the Spire sold on Linux plus some thoughts
In the past, I've spoken to many developers about how their games sold on Linux and this time we have information on Slay the Spire to share.
A quick run over some details from the recent ProtonDB data
Every now and then, the people behind ProtonDB release data dumps from user generated reports of games tested in Steam Play. Here's a look.
The war of the PC stores is getting ugly, as Metro Exodus becomes a timed Epic Store exclusive
While this might not be specific to Linux gaming, it's still something interesting I've wanted to talk about. Metro Exodus from 4A Games and Deep Silver has jumped ship from Steam to the Epic Store.
Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?
It's nearly the end of January already, feels like the year is going rather quickly! With all the releases we've had lately along with some excellent games last year, what are you clicking on this weekend?
Putting games across multiple stores is not easy, as developers keep noting recently
One thing we see often, is that developers stick to one store. When they do put their game across multiple stores, the Linux version is often late or left out entirely. There are reasons for that, as developers have spoken about recently.
Unity have updated their Terms of Service and they seem a lot more fair
After the debacle over Unity and Improbable's SpatialOS, it seems Unity has made some solid steps after a lot of feedback on their Terms of Service.
The 'Linux Steam Integration' project has a fresh minor release out
Back to work at Intel, developer Ikey Doherty has put out a fresh release of the Linux Steam Integration project.
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