Colony building sim 'Maia' has a big update, taking another look
'Maia' is an Early Access colony building sim that has always shown promise, but the problem is that it has been quite buggy. This new release has polished the game up quite a bit.
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Small update to the PC info system today, you can now get a 'forum signature image'
Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your pc details and username.
Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21
It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.
Transport Fever confirmed for day-1 Linux release on November 8th, plus gameplay video
Transport Fever is really starting to look great, and the best news is that Linux is confirmed to be a day-1 release. We also have a new gameplay video.
Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR
Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.
Mesa has now hit full OpenGL 4.4 support for AMD radeonsi and Intel
As of today Mesa now has full OpenGL 4.4 support (with 4.5 already done) for both AMD radeonsi and Intel (i965/gen8+). Mesa won't actually expose any higher than OpenGL 4.3 until Mesa (well, someone) pays up for the Conformance Tests.
Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver
The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.
Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers
Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.
Through the Woods no longer coming to Linux due to platform-specific technology
This is really annoying. 'Through the Woods', a very promising psychological horror is no longer coming to Linux and was only announced two weeks before release due to platform-specific technology.
Steam to get a massive update soon, Asia revenue increased nearly 500% since 2014 and more
More information courtesy of all the developers at SteamDevDays. Steam will apparently be getting a massive update/refresh soon and the amount of games releasing on Steam has been increasing by a lot.
Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made
Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.
Recursed, a mind bending puzzle platformer that's actually rather good is now out for Linux
Recursed, is a new indie puzzle platformer that might just warp your mind a little bit. I've been playing it and don't let the graphical style fool you, it's quite good.
Looks like VR support for Linux will be shown off at SteamDevDays this week, about time
VR support for Linux has been lacking and the communication around it has been pretty damn poor by Valve and HTC, but it seems this is about to change at SteamDevDays.
AMD Zen looks like it will release at CES in January 2017
In January 2017 it looks like AMD will finally release their brand new clean-sheet (it's a new design) Zen CPU architecture, and damn it sounds exciting.
Race cars with the worst handling ever made online in ForeveRacers
My god, ForeveRacers might be my new favourite stupid thing. It's an online racer where the cars are all top heavy physics wobbly things.
Earth Space Colonies released out of Early Access, features full Linux support, initial thoughts
For those who know me, they will know I love strategy and sandbox building games. Not only that but I love things based around space and other planets. So Earth Space Colonies deserved a try.
Parkitect, the cute theme park builder updated again with new rides, loans and more
Parkitect is coming along really nicely, and looks to be a great answer to having a theme park builder on Linux. The developers have put up a new build with new rides including bumper cars, and the ability to get a loan.
Superposition Benchmark, a new GPU stress-testing tool from UNIGINE
UNIGINE are building a brand new benchmark stress-test named 'Superposition Benchmark'. They have put out some more information on it, and they want to get it onto Steam.
Earthlock: Festival of Magic has a public opt-in Linux test build, no longer requiring an invite
Earthlock: Festival of Magic is a rather great looking adventure RPG inspired by some older JRPGs, the developers recently opened an invite-only Linux test, but they have decided to open it up to everyone.
Fun looking action RPG 'Dungeons & Robots' now has an official Linux version
Dungeons & Robots is currently in Early Access and it looks like a lot of fun, the developers have recently given the game an official Linux build.
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