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Killing Floor 2 for Linux is 'indefinitely on hold' as they can't find a developer
10 Jan 2018 at 8:28 pm UTC Likes: 16

"During Killing Floor 2's development a choice was made to rewrite the DirectX rendering system. "

Well, the fault is completely on them for making the bad decisions.

A look at some incredible Linux gaming deals going on right now
25 Nov 2017 at 10:21 am UTC

Quoting: GuestMankind Divided for what reason? everyone else said it was a disappointment and cashgrab.
Full price maybe. This price it is absolutely worth it.

Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME
7 Apr 2017 at 8:36 am UTC Likes: 6

Question: Is there any interest in me doing a separate site to cover general Linux news?

I'd guesstimate not really. But covering aspects that have impact on the gaming side of things is expected?

Edit: Or rather, there might be interest, but would it be worth your time.
Edit2: And the biggest thing in this that affects the gaming side of things is that Mir is gone, long live Wayland.

F1 2016 won't be coming to Linux, as sales of F1 2015 weren't strong enough
3 Apr 2017 at 11:21 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: UltraAltesBrotThat means other Feral ports seem to have been a financial success.. which is good i guess?
How many of them had a sequel ported to prove?
X-Com series.

F1 2016 won't be coming to Linux, as sales of F1 2015 weren't strong enough
3 Apr 2017 at 11:04 am UTC Likes: 7

Sad but at the same time understandable decision when resources are finite.

Wine 2.5 released with 30 bug fixes and various improvements
1 Apr 2017 at 4:01 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Joeyboots80Awesome. So, does anyone know what's left till Wine is DX11 feature complete?
https://www.winehq.org/winapi_stats [External Link]

Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
31 Mar 2017 at 4:48 pm UTC

I didn't see this mentioned in the article and skimming the comments it wasn't discussed. Is this also a situation where one would want to change the CPU governor to performance? I'm referencing this https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/you-will-want-to-force-your-cpu-into-high-performance-mode-for-vulkan-games-on-linux-due-to-a-bug.9369

Another Steam Beta Client update released, allows moving game location
18 Jan 2017 at 12:22 pm UTC

After the whole rm -rf fiasko I have been real hesitant in doing any fiddling with Steam libraries. Maybe someday it will get my trust back...

Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 Jan 2017 at 12:04 pm UTC Likes: 9

Penguins are binary for Civ6, back turned to viewer is obviously zero.

Edit: Almost forgot:

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE!