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Atari announced Breakout Beyond, a fresh spin on the classic from the devs of BIT.TRIP
5 Feb 2025 at 7:53 am UTC Likes: 2

Not quite the classic you remember.
I liked it better when it was called Arkanoid.

the script has been flipped—literally! Players now progress sideways
Going back to Pong...

originally slated as an Amico Intellivision exclusive, Atari agreed to acquire and complete the development
Weren't both of those new consoles Linux-based? And yet...

you'll need Proton to run it on Linux
... no Linux love?

Physics building game Besiege gets a big 10 year anniversary update
4 Feb 2025 at 5:40 am UTC Likes: 1

Going by the release date on Steam, it's been (just under) 5 years. So yeah, they are clearly counting early access.

GDC 2025 survey shows PC game development growing with lots interested in Valve's Steam Deck
24 Jan 2025 at 8:31 am UTC Likes: 5

Sad to see the Mac percentage still at double the Linux percentage, despite Apple being so hostile, and the Steam user statistics clearly indicating where the growth is...

SDL 3 officially released for game devs plus an SDL 2 to SDL 3 compatibility layer
23 Jan 2025 at 7:04 am UTC Likes: 1

If SDL3 gets added to Fedora's repos
$ sudo dnf list SDL3*
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
SDL3.i686 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates
SDL3.x86_64 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates
SDL3-devel.i686 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates
SDL3-devel.x86_64 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates
SDL3-static.i686 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates
SDL3-static.x86_64 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates
SDL3-test.x86_64 3.2.0-1.fc41 updates

GE-Proton 9-23 released with a Battle.net update fix for Linux / Steam Deck
23 Jan 2025 at 6:55 am UTC Likes: 1

Blizzard, for all its faults (and there are many) have always been pretty okay with linux
Sam Lantinga (SDL author) was working there for a time. Rumor has it there were native Linux builds of their games during that time, but sadly never publicly released...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lantinga [External Link]

GE-Proton 9-23 released with a Battle.net update fix for Linux / Steam Deck
21 Jan 2025 at 5:42 am UTC Likes: 1

> ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit

Dunno what Nvidia has planned for v570, but I wouldn't expect any major performance improvements? As for ntsync, that is more for robustness / correctness, it's not expected to be much faster than what Proton already does. It will improve vanilla WINE, which is what the touted benchmarks show...

GE-Proton 9-23 released with a Battle.net update fix for Linux / Steam Deck
19 Jan 2025 at 12:07 am UTC Likes: 3

I wonder what the [redacted] EGS game is... oh, that's the literal name of the game :huh:
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/redacted-d9d21e [External Link]

THREAT VECTOR is an action sci-fi horror FPS coming from KillPixel Games
17 Jan 2025 at 7:27 am UTC Likes: 2

This retro FPS scene really needs a swift kick in the butt. They all look the same.
I'm certainly getting Quake 2 vibes from the screenshots. But it's not due out until 2027, so plenty of time for things to change...