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Heliborne is a pretty fun online Helicopter combat game that has a Linux Beta
1 May 2017 at 12:49 pm UTC

Ah, now I remembered Search and Rescue, that had a Linux version but later became Windows only. It was a non violent game, were you needed to rescue people under difficult conditions. Too bad that style of game never became mainstream.

Need more Serious Sam? Serious Sam's Bogus Detour arrives this summer
10 April 2017 at 3:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

I hope they do a good gamepad support. The video only shows it being played with mouse/keyboard, witch is a Serious® no-no for me for this type of game.

Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME
7 April 2017 at 10:51 am UTC Likes: 5

Personally, I always used KDE. But I find funny when people say Unity was a disaster, when the students in my lab never showed problems using it. Very easy to learn DE if you ask me.

I don't believe, for now, that what we will see in 18.04 will be a stock Gnome 3. I downloaded a ISO from Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 to check it out and my God, what a mess was that. It is too alien for a new user, make no sense for those who came from a tradicional desktop Like Gnome 2 or KDE, exactly like the mistakes Microsoft did with Windows 8, but in a different form. And what STUPID thing to disable by default "tap to touch" option? Now I understand why people did fork the hell of Gnome 2.

With that said, I bet Cannonical will put a makeup in Gnome 3 to make it look like Unity. If not, they will loose more users than they already have.

Feral Fury, a twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite features is out on Linux and it's pretty good
5 April 2017 at 12:07 pm UTC

Twin stick shooters are my Achilles heel with the Steam Controller. Any other type of game I can play almost as good or better than a traditional joypad, but this type of game make me suffer.

But that is okay. I believe in the right tool for the job mantra and that's why I have more than one controller.

Road Redemption has released the big update for Linux gamers, it's actually pretty good
4 April 2017 at 1:12 pm UTC

The gamepad support is bugged for me. Tested with Xbox 360, One, Steam Controller and Logitech F710, all with the same problem of misconfigured axes and buttons.

The game don't allow you to do alter the gamepad settings, and the config files do not show a gamepad section to modify.

It's a old bug, I got it before this big upgrade, witch is a shame because now the game looks very good and much more polished than it was before.

Superposition Benchmark powered by UNIGINE 2 releases this week with Linux support
3 April 2017 at 4:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Last week Phoronix did a benchmark of a embargoed "port". Since the results showed a very heavy program being tested, I bet this is it.

On the plus side, a new engine to push developers to optimize the OpenGL 4.5 side of drivers, another engine besides Deus Ex to look into.

X-Plane 11 is now officially available with day-1 Linux support
30 March 2017 at 10:48 pm UTC

Do not work with radeonsi driver, it refuses to launch.

Blazing Chrome, a classic co-op run ‘n gun plans Linux support
29 March 2017 at 11:58 am UTC Likes: 2

So, they are making the next Contra game, hum? Fine by me, since Konami now only want to do those stupid pachinko machines.

Ubuntu now has a more official PPA to get Mesa updates
27 March 2017 at 3:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Nice. And I just checked and Ubuntu 17.04 just got Mesa 17.0.2, so it looks like this is the year that when you install a modern Linux distro and get (almost) all your hardware supported to the fullest. Kudos for all that made this possible.

Installation 01, a fan-made Halo game plans Linux support
27 March 2017 at 11:51 am UTC Likes: 3

Wow, those guys are in a dangerous spot. Halo is a cash cow for MS and they will send lawyers to trow briefcases at then, if they're feeling that the Halo name are in danger. Especially if the game became really popular and fans start to make comparisons making MS games look bad.

I know that Nintendo would have sent letters to then already if this was a Mario themed game.

As for this game, I'm not a Halo fan but this look really nice, especially if they could introduce a FOV slider in the settings, because the main reason I disliked Halo was the "sniper FOV" of the original Xbox games.