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Apple is now funding Blender development joining many big names

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct

There's apparently absolutely no stopping the Blender train, with the developer announcing that Apple has now joined their development fund.

NVIDIA Beta 495.29.05 rolls out with GBM for expanded Wayland support

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct

NVIDIA has today released the 495.29.05 driver as a Beta in their New Feature Branch and it's a relatively big one.

AMD Radeon RX 6600 launches today aimed at high-refresh rates and 1080p

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct

AMD has today released the AMD Radeon RX 6600, a new RDNA 2 GPU that has a focus on 1080p as well as high refresh rates.

AMD celebrates 5 years of Ryzen, a Zen 3 refresh with 3D V-Cache due in 2022

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct

AMD has released a video featuring Robert Hallock their director of technical marketing and John Taylor their chief marketing officer to celebrate 5 years of Ryzen with new info.

Proton Experimental sees GreedFall, Eve Online and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl working

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct

Another update to Proton Experimental has landed as of October 11 bringing with it more fixes and even more Windows games are now working on Linux.

Helping to keep your game library tidy Lutris 0.5.9 is out supporting Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct

The Epic Games Store comes to the game manager Lutris, giving you an even better place to deal with your game library split across many different stores.

The Epic Store on Linux continues getting easier to manage with Heroic Games Launcher

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct

Heroic Games Launcher has a fresh update released and it comes with some mighty fine new features, all in the name of making your Epic Store library easier to manage on Linux.

The ScummVM retro game project celebrates a 20th anniversary with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct

A big celebration to be had for the folks working on ScummVM, the project that bundles together various game engines to allow you to play many older games easily on modern platforms.

GOG removes HITMAN after customer backlash over online features

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct

Recently we wrote about the stealth assassination game HITMAN landing on GOG. Not specifically Linux news but interesting industry news to keep an eye on, due to the massive backlash it had and now GOG has removed it for sale.

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Looks like the important futex2 work is finally going into the Linux Kernel to help gaming

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct

After a long bumpy road with many revisions, it appears that the futex2 work sponsored by Valve is finally heading into the upstream Linux Kernel.

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Wine 6.19 is out new with more joystick work, more modules converted to PE

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct

The Wine 6.19 development release is out now following more weeks of hacking away trying to create the best possible Windows compatibility layer.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 470.62.05 rolls out for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct

More improvements and new extensions have landed for the NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver with version 470.62.05 out now.

Get a look inside the Steam Deck in Valve's latest video

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct

Want to see inside a Steam Deck? Valve has delivered in the latest video although they're keen to remind people not to do any of this yourself.

TUXEDO announce the new InfinityBook Pro 14 with RTX 3050 Ti and Tiger Lake H35

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct

TUXEDO have refreshed their InfinityBook Pro 14 model with some impressive new internals that makes for a good all-round laptop if you can afford it.

Qualcomm, Valve, AMD and more team up for Wi-Fi Dual Station

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct

Wi-Fi Dual Station is the name of what appears to be quite the leap for latency-sensitive gaming where a wired connection remains top but for how long? Probably forever but the gap is getting shorter.

Twitch has suffered a huge leak of source code with a possible Steam competitor (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct

Twitch is not having a good time lately. On top of battling bots engaging in hate-raids spamming chats with horrible things, it appears they've also suffered a massive data breach. UPDATED.

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Humble Choice for October 2021 lands with Amnesia: Rebirth

By Liam Dawe, 5 Oct

Another fresh month has landed with a cool breeze and Humble Bundle have their next set of curated games available in their Humble Choice subscription.

A look at the top 100 Steam games and how many will work on Linux and the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 5 Oct

Across various previous articles we've looked at how many games are supported on Linux and how many Windows games work with Steam Play Proton, so let's take a look at the current top 100.

Proton Experimental expands NVIDIA DLSS support on Linux to DirectX 11 titles

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct

Only a few days ago Proton Experimental saw an update to pull in NVIDIA DLSS support for DirectX 12 and as of today's update this has expanded to DirectX 11 titles too.

GTA III & Vice City reverse-engineered code taken down on GitHub again by Take-Two DMCA

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct

The saga continues for the GTA III and Vice City code that was reverse engineered and available on GitHub, as it has now been taken down once again from a DMCA request.