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Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way

By Liam Dawe,
Embracer Group continue to sell off more with the latest being Gearbox, which has been picked up by Take-Two Interactive in a $460 million deal.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps

By Liam Dawe,
After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

By nwildner,
Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from adding EA anticheat into FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 we're about to see another game broken on Linux / Steam Deck with Battlefield V.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

By Liam Dawe,
In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced

By nwildner,
Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.

Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599

By Liam Dawe,
After being revealed early in February, the upcoming Orange Pi Neo that will come with Manjaro Linux now has a price, and there will be multiple versions of it although we still don't exactly have a clear release date.

Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
At last! Users from Ubuntu 24.04 onwards that's scheduled to release on April 25th should hopefully see a smoother Linux gaming experience.

Draw 7 and hope you get a good hand in the Steam Deckbuilders Fest

By Liam Dawe,
Running through until April 1st at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, the Steam Deckbuilders Fest is live filled with games with cards of all sorts.

SDL 3 has a first preview release out with HDR and Vulkan for the 2D rendering API

By Liam Dawe,
Fun times ahead for game developers, as the very popular SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has a preview of the upcoming SDL 3 now available for feedback and testing.

MangoHud manager GOverlay 1.1.1 released upgrading to QT6

By Liam Dawe,
GOverlay, the app you can use if you want a UI to manage overlays like MangoHud has a new release out that upgrades its insides and fixes some bugs.

Steam Deck and Desktop Steam Beta fixes a Steam Play bug with Windows versions

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh Steam Beta Client update on March 22nd, and with it a bunch of bug fixes for both Steam Deck and Desktop Steam.

Proton 9.0 (Beta16) brings more regression fixes, updated Steamworks SDK

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released another Beta version of Proton 9.0, what will become the next main stable version of Proton on the path to getting as many games running as possible on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 9.5 released

By Liam Dawe,
Another two weeks are done and so a fresh update of the Windows compatibility layer is live with the Wine 9.5 development release.

Humble brings back a bunch of boomer shooters for this game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
In the new Back with a Vengeance: The Best of Boomer Shooters Humble Bundle, you can grab some hot action for cheaps and they all work well on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

System76 release upgraded Lemur Pro laptop, plus a desktop sale now on

By Liam Dawe,
Hardware vendor and Pop!_OS Linux developers System76 have revealed a fresh upgrade for their ultraportable laptop, the Lemur Pro. Plus, they have a big desktop sale now on.

Founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer blasts publisher greed

By Liam Dawe,
As reported by Eurogamer at GDC (Game Developer's Conference), during the Game Developers Choice Awards where Baldur’s Gate 3 won Game of the Year, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke had some strong words to say about the games industry.

GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA

By Liam Dawe,
Well, that didn't last long did it. After a first release, GitLab have already pulled down the Nintendo Switch emulator suyu, due to a DMCA hit as a result of it being forked from yuzu which Nintendo shut down.

AMD FSR 3.1 announced with Vulkan support, upscaling quality improvements

By Liam Dawe,
During GDC, AMD announced the latest big upgrade to come for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution with version 3.1 planned to launch in Q2 2024.

3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

By Liam Dawe,
Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.
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