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As it nears a new release, The Battle for Wesnoth is looking for new contributors
1 Sep 2021 at 12:18 pm UTC

The team is also specifically looking for committed developers willing to help migrating the game’s outdated rendering system to a newer API such as OpenGL or Vulkan.
Odd... did the plan change to rebuild Wesnoth on top of the Godot engine?

Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan continues maturing with a big performance fix
31 Aug 2021 at 9:49 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: FredrikIf I understand it right, its only for AMD, so useless for the majority of Linux gamers since most run nvidia.
A very fast shrinking majority :p

Don't sleep on the 2D action-RPG Chronicon with a big upgrade out now and DLC coming
21 Aug 2021 at 12:39 pm UTC

This game has some serious difficulty issues, meaning it is waaaaay to easy in some character configurations even on the hardest difficulty levels.

Iron Gate explain the new Valheim blocking and staggering mechanics in Hearth & Home
17 Aug 2021 at 7:09 pm UTC Likes: 4

I wish they would work on making the apparently really cool VR mod officially part of the game.

Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu gets much improved performance and rendering accuracy
13 Aug 2021 at 2:24 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: 1xokA stupid question: If I want to play Zelda on it, where do I get the game from?
No one will share a link to an illegal download here.

But you can buy it on a real Switch and rip it off the storage (no idea how exactly), which is legal (for personal use) in most countries.

Looks like the fresh Back 4 Blood Beta is working on Linux with Proton GE
12 Aug 2021 at 9:46 pm UTC

Judging by some online comments it seems EAC is disabled in coop-mode (which makes sense), but enabled in versus mode. So the latter does not work with Proton right now AFAIK.

The game itself looks cool, but the price point is really too high for such a game.

Polychromatic front-end for managing Razer hardware on Linux gets an overhaul
12 Aug 2021 at 9:40 pm UTC

Just started using this (before reading the article... nice coincidence), and I am really liking it so far.

I hope it will see a proper release in the Manjaro repos, as right now I still have to get it via AUR.

Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support
9 Aug 2021 at 8:25 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: udekmp69
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: MekaDragonIt's crazy to see GNU/Linux starting to have more choices for gaming on Steam than Windows lol.
Now if we could just get something like Launchbox... Only reason I have Windows on my tower hooked up in my living room is for it. (Launchbox is a frontend to a ton of different gamestores / emulators, etc. Think BPM with trailers / screenshots / etc for everything from Steam, to Mame to Amiga). problem is, it's written in .Net and doesn't quite work well with Linux... and even if it did work under Proton / Wine, the emulators themselves would also need to be wrapped.

Seriously need some Linux native competitor to it :)
Yeah the closest alternative I can think of is Gamehub, but I think that's more of a Lutris / PoL alternative rather than Launchbox.
There is a Lutris addon for KODI: https://github.com/RobLoach/lutris-kodi-addon [External Link]

Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support
9 Aug 2021 at 3:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

Just tried it with OpenMW. Really nice, even picks up my normal save-games from OpenMW. It also includes the experimental multiplayer fork of OpenMW it seems.