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The team behind SUPERHOT are now helping to fund other indie games
A nice story for a Friday morning as the SUPERHOT team have announced SUPERHOT PRESENTS, a fund to help other indie game developers who don't want or need a publisher.
Category: Misc
Facepunch adjust their Linux plans for Rust, refunds being offered as it won't continue at all
As an update to the Rust situation, Facepunch have now changed their plans for the Linux version. They've decided to offer refunds, as they won't continue it at all.
G2A have extended the deadline for their proposed key-blocking tool, as more developers are unhappy with them
Recently, after G2A appeared in the spotlight once again for being terrible, they offered to make a key-blocking tool for developers.
Putting a Linux game on Steam: Missing Executable - a common pitfall for game devs
This comes up so often when testing games for developers and surprisingly often for newly released Linux games - a missing download.
Facepunch Studios confirm their plan for the Linux version of Rust, to be split from Windows & Mac
Garry Newman from Facepunch Studios has put out a new blog post detailing their final plans for the Linux version of the survival game Rust.
KDE has an unpatched security issue that's been made public
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
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
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.
What have you been clicking on this weekend?
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?
Blender 2.80 is out, a major advancement for this FOSS 3D creation suite
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
It's been a while since I last asked and plenty of games have been released or updated since then. Let's get talking.
Seems that the Linux version of Supraland will not be heading to GOG (updated)
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
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"
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.
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