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Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up
7 January 2020 at 11:11 am UTC
Nice to see alternatives to ASEprite and Piskel out there. Hopefully it takes off! It helps they've got one of the Godot core team working on it, too.
FOSS game engine Godot Engine aiming for Vulkan support by 'mid 2020'
2 January 2020 at 1:39 pm UTC Likes: 1
Late 2020 is the earliest I'd say for 4.0. And this month for 3.2 sounds equally overly optimistic considering the issues it's been having with its betas. February, March more likely.
Little Red Dog Games announce Rogue State Revolution, a political thriller roguelike
23 August 2019 at 11:11 am UTC
Rogue State did support Linux... kind of. Being an AGS game, if you used a copy of the AGS runtime for Linux with it, it ran. Needed Steam stub libraries as I recall, and performance was absolutely awful, but it ran.
Atari VCS to start shipping in March 2020 (backers get it in December), with a new website and store partners
11 June 2019 at 9:26 pm UTC Likes: 2
Following the 70/80s 8-bit computer naming pattern, I see...
OpenXR from The Khronos Group and Monado from Collabora could unify VR & AR
20 March 2019 at 10:14 am UTC
Hopefully that XKCD comic about standards won't come and bite them in the arse. Done carefully and properly, this could be a ground-breaker.
Shovel Knight sells 2 million copies, Linux sales account for 1.1% of Steam sales
15 April 2018 at 3:14 pm UTC
Quoting: BlackBloodRumGoes to show though, even if Steam says we're at 0.001% of users we can still count for a larger number of sales than our expected userbase.

So yes, we're only 0.001% but we can still add that 1.1% (more or less depending on game) to a games sales. That's still extra money for the developers whichever way you spin it.

What would be interesting is to see statistics on a big game ported by Aspyr like DiRT Rally (epic game) and where we would stand on a game like that.

The numbers must be OK because codemasters have let them port a few games now.

Aspyr, care to help? :-D
I do know they declined to have a prior game in the F1 series ported to Linux due to lack of sales though, so it's not that good. Presumably Aspyr managed to convince them to give another shot.
Microsoft is rumoured to be looking to buy Valve, EA and others
30 January 2018 at 8:40 pm UTC Likes: 2
Everyone has their price, including Gaben. I suspect Valve is the most likely target for reasons already stated, and yes, I do think it's naive to think he wouldn't sell up to MS for sufficient billions. Everyone has their price.
Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition is coming from Beamdog, Linux support confirmed
21 November 2017 at 10:52 am UTC
Hasbro own the rights to it now.

If there's no editor (even if the editor is Windows/Mac-only), then I wouldn't consider buying this.
The open source recreation of Daggerfall hits an important milestone
20 October 2017 at 11:21 am UTC
At least, unlike Unreal Engine (which has to because its source code is publicly available), Unity does not forbid certain types of licensing (such as GPL) being used with projects made with it.
The open source recreation of Daggerfall hits an important milestone
17 October 2017 at 6:27 pm UTC
It's as open source as it can be considering the base engine. It'd be interesting to see it transplanted to an OSS engine like Godot ala OpenMW (OGRE->OSG), but I am well aware that's probably not exactly realistic to expect (and not that it matters all that much anyway).

Giving Daggerfall the graphical fidelity of the later games would be fantastic, along with certain gameplay improvements. Nice to see this progressing!
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