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Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs in Mesa 20.3 will have some Bifrost support out of the box

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

The continuing battle to have open source Linux graphics drivers support everything possible continues, with the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs hitting more milestones.

Extreme sports game Descenders adds new bike types, tracks, tricks and more

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

RageSquid and No More Robots recently gave the extreme sports game Descenders quite a big free content upgrade, which includes plenty of fancy new extras.

Linux 5.11 to see better support for ASUS gaming laptop keyboards

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

Love ASUS hardware and their ASUS ROG tech? Well it seems Linux Kernel 5.11 will be pulling in some better support for their keyboards.

Open source OpenXR (VR/AR) runtime 'Monado', now passes conformance tests

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

Quite a huge milestone for the in-development open source OpenXR runtime Monado, as Collabora have announced a fresh milestone in its life.

Collabora will be at the Linux App Summit talking about their work with Valve

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

There's another interesting talk coming up this month that you might want to check out, with open source consulting firm Collabora chatting about their work with Valve.

RetroArch will soon get the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

Feel the need to run some classic PlayStation 2 games? It's set to get a lot easier, as the RetroArch team have reported on their work with PCSX2.

VR rhythm game 'Groove Gunner' enters Early Access with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

After a new VR game that's supported on Linux? There's not a lot to pick from but you can now add Groove Gunner to your collection.

A fresh NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.34.01 is out with GeForce RTX 3070 support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

NVIDIA have now updated their super special Vulkan Beta Driver branch adding in support for the latest GPU release with the GeForce RTX 3070.

Gabe Newell of Valve is launching Gnome Chompski into space (yes really)

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, today a press mail from Valve Software entered our inbox because Gabe Newell, president of Valve, is getting a garden gnome sent into space. No this is not Kerbal Space Program.

Grab a free copy of Kingdom: Classic from Humble Store

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

Consider this your weekly quick tip! Humble Store are currently doing a free game giveaway with Kingdom: Classic, you will need to act fast on this one.

Yuppie Psycho expands with an Executive Edition free upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

The dark work-horror comedy Yuppie Psycho from 2019 got a nice surprise upgrade for everyone with Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition available now as a free upgrade.

Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack is out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

Become one with death in the Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack, the latest smaller expansion to the grand space strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios.

Meet the Raspberry Pi 400, a complete setup inside a tiny keyboard

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

The folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have done it again, they've managed to launch a product I really don't need but absolutely want with the Raspberry Pi 400.

Half-Life re-imagining Black Mesa has a Definitive Edition available in Beta now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

As promised by the team at Crowbar Collective around the 1.0 release, a Definitive Edition of Black Mesa is coming and there's now a Beta.

Intel announced Iris Xe MAX Graphics as their first Xe-based discrete GPU

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

Intel did something of a surprise this weekend, especially on a Saturday: they announced their first Xe-based discrete GPU with the Iris Xe MAX Graphics.

Get building in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

Build up and maintain an amusement park in the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in the free and open source modern game engine OpenRCT2.

Steal the sun in Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash is the second season to the visual novel/mech brawler and it's out now.

Testing integer scaling with Valve's gamescope micro-compositor for Linux

By Linas, 2 Nov 2020

Gamescope from Valve developer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais is described as a micro-compositor that can spoof a virtual screen with a desired resolution and refresh rate and control/resize the output as needed. Here's a few early scaling tests taken.

Even More Disc Room, a few gems from the recent Game Jam

By Dennis_Payne, 2 Nov 2020

To promote the release of Disc Room, Devolver Digital sponsored a Game Jam. Here are some of the gems I've found in the entries.

A look back over some popular articles for October 2020

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2020

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for October 2020, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!