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Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news

By Liam Squires-Hand, 7 Oct 2019

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

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Oct 2019

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

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Oct 2019

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)

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Oct 2019

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

By Liam Squires-Hand, 2 Oct 2019

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.

No Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation for Linux but Ashes II and future Stardock titles should be

By Liam Squires-Hand, 1 Oct 2019

Good and bad news to share this Tuesday morning. Stardock Entertainment have given an update on the status of porting Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation to Vulkan and Linux.

The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper

By Liam Squires-Hand, 29 Sep 2019

Another week has passed already? There's simply not enough time in the week! Since we slow right down during the weekend to get a little downtime ready to be fresh for another week, here's some interesting bits for Sunday reading.

The Linux gaming Sunday round-up paper

By Liam Squires-Hand, 22 Sep 2019

Catch up on some recent big news and some things we haven't covered through the week on GamingOnLinux.

A French court has ruled that Valve should allow people to re-sell their digital games

By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Sep 2019

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Valve and game developers have a bit of a fight on their hands here, with a French court ruling that Valve should allow users to re-sell their digital games.

Misc
Steam

Richard Stallman has resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT

By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Sep 2019

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Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation has resigned and he's also left his position in CSAIL at MIT.

Misc

You may want to hold off on Linux Kernel 5.3 and systemd 243 if you use a gamepad

By Liam Squires-Hand, 16 Sep 2019

Did you do a big system upgrade recently and notice you're having gamepad issues? You're not alone. Time to downgrade perhaps.

Kind Words, a pretty sweet experience about sending and receiving anonymous letters

By Liam Squires-Hand, 14 Sep 2019

Developer Popcannibal (Make Sail, Girls Like Robots) just released an updated version of the Humble Original Kind Words with Linux support.

Unknown Worlds are dumping the Linux version of Natural Selection 2

By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Sep 2019

Some sad news to share this Friday evening, as Unknown Worlds Entertainment have announced they're calling it a day for the Linux version of Natural Selection 2.

Seems like Discord's new "Go Live" feature is not coming to the Linux version

By Liam Squires-Hand, 11 Sep 2019

Recently, the voice & text chat app Discord released a pretty fun sounding new feature called "Go Live" which sadly seems like Linux will miss out on.

Apps
Misc

Accelerated OpenGL in a virtual machine is advancing with virglrenderer

By Liam Squires-Hand, 28 Aug 2019

Collabora put out a fresh technical blog post today to talk a little about virglrenderer, with the latest version enabling a big leap for accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine.

Misc
OpenGL

Voidpoint have said they will not be "censoring" Ion Fury by removing stupid gay joke

By Liam Squires-Hand, 28 Aug 2019

Voidpoint, what are you doing? I am so confused at this point. After releasing a statement we posted last week in our Ion Fury post, the team at Voidpoint now seem to be doing something of a ridiculous U-turn.

Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE no longer coming to Linux after the successful Kickstarter

By Liam Squires-Hand, 26 Aug 2019

After a successful Kickstarter that planned Linux support and now being released on Steam, the developer of Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE has issued a post about platforms no longer happening.

What have you been playing this week and what are you clicking on this weekend?

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Aug 2019

Another week has almost finished, it's now the weekend and it's super hot here which means it's time to hide indoors and play games.

Misc

System76 announce their own graphical Firmware Manager

By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Aug 2019

System76, the company known for their Linux hardware and the Pop!_OS Linux distribution recently announced their new Firmware Manager.

The situation with Blood: Fresh Supply getting a Linux version is looking a little unclear

By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Aug 2019

Blood: Fresh Supply is the revamp of the classic 90's first-person shooter Blood, released by Nightdive Studios in May this year. It seems updates to it have come to an end.