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The Vulkan-based compatibility layer for D3D 11 and Wine 'DXVK' has a new release out
14 Apr 2018 at 10:10 pm UTC

How fast this project is advancing is truly impressive. Hope the guy behind it, doitsujin (German in japanese), stays motivated.

The first results of the GZDoom survey are out, 10% are on Linux
10 Apr 2018 at 12:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: nateHere are a couple upcoming GZDoom wads that I'm looking forward to trying once totally finished:

Doom, the Golden Souls 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBt49x5hEvk [External Link]

Hocus Pocus Doom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhT0eb5ECV8 [External Link]
This one is great too

Castlevania: Simon's Destiny
http://www.moddb.com/mods/castlevania-simons-destiny [External Link]
View video on youtube.com

Nightdive Studios has released the source code for System Shock
7 Apr 2018 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

it's using a software renderer which has a few routines written in powerpc assembly.

Lingotopia, a language learning game about being lost in a city is fully funded, has a demo
24 Jan 2018 at 6:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

Be warned that this game is using romaji for the japanese part.

Killing Floor 2 for Linux is 'indefinitely on hold' as they can't find a developer
11 Jan 2018 at 12:20 am UTC

From what i have read there and here, they were using Unreal engine 3 for their two previous games and found out that it was more interesting for them to (heavily) modify UE3 instead of buying UT4 and porting what was already done on KF2.

Steam hits another record of over 18.5 million concurrent users online
7 Jan 2018 at 5:55 pm UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickThere is a linux compatible battleeye service used with ARMA3 now. Perhaps some file swapping will work, but likely version mismatch.
BattleEye does support GNU+Linux since early 2016. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/battleye-anticheat-now-supports-linux-already-live-in-ark-survival-evolved.6637

SteamOS has a fresh beta update with some major package updates
5 Jan 2018 at 11:10 am UTC

The steam machine reminds me the Apple Pippin:

  • Hardware same as PC (Macintosh)

  • Running a PC OS (MacOS)

  • Produced by third parties (Bandai)


The Pippin was a huge failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin [External Link]