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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.
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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.
Steam and CS:GO just keep knocking down records as Steam hits over 24 million concurrent users
There seems to be no stopping Steam right now, Valve are on a roll with repeatedly breaking their own user records.
The Atari VCS is in trouble again as Rob Wyatt sues Atari for lack of payment
Rob Wyatt, the architect behind the original Xbox and someone Atari hired to work on the Atari VCS system is now suing Atari over their failure to actually pay up.
Terraria has now sold over 30 million copies as they get closer to the massive Journey's End update
Terraria from developer Re-Logic has now officially passed 30 million sales and shows no sign of stopping, as they approach a huge update with Journey's End.
Add crazy effects to your images with 'PhotoMosh', a powerful but easy to use free web app
We interrupt your regularly scheduled gaming news to mention PhotoMosh, a fun and quite powerful free web application to mess around with your images. It's actually pretty cool.
Struggling with regular expressions? Then visit 'Regex Crossword', a site to learn them through a Sudoku-like game
Regular expressions are often difficult for anyone to get their head around and so Regex Crossword turns learned them into a bit of a game.
Collabora partnered with Microsoft to get OpenGL and OpenCL on DirectX
A very interesting use of open source in action here from the incredibly smart team over at Collabora who teamed up with Microsoft engineers to get OpenGL and OpenCL via DirectX.
Help GamingOnLinux beat Coronavirus, join us on Folding@home
Alright Coronavirus, this has gone on long enough. It's time to kick your arse. Want to help? We've made a team on Folding@home for you to spare your unused CPU/GPU cycles for research.
mod.io secures funding to expand their cross-platform and cross-store modding service
mod.io is a cross-store and cross-platform modding solution founded by Scott Reismanis (Mod DB, Indie DB) and it appears they're expanding to bring their fancy modding tech to everyone.
What have you been playing recently and what are your thoughts?
It's Sunday, it's a lazy day for some and plenty of you are probably playing through your backlog of games - so what have you been playing and what do you think about it?
As Puppygames reflect on the release of Basingstoke, they say it financially ruined them
Basingstoke released back in 2018 and in my opinion, it was a damn fun game that really got my blood flowing. Sadly, it went quite under the radar and it seems it pretty much ruined Puppygames.
China bans Plague Inc: Evolved as Coronavirus fear spreads
China hasn't exactly been the easiest market to release games in, for various reasons, and now they've banned Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam.
Linux Game Publishing returns in an archived form
Linux Game Publishing, a name I rarely hear nowadays have returned to the internet with a new hosted archive of their original website.
OBS Studio gains another big sponsor with Facebook
Do you make videos? Livestream? Well, you probably know of or use the cross-platform open source OBS Studio and how it's basically the go-to for such things and they just gained another huge sponsor.
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