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The Khronos Group seeking paid devs to work on OpenXR runtime Monado
12 Jul 2023 at 6:29 am UTC

Wasn't Collabora working on it already/before? Maybe Khronos thinks they are taking too long / need more help?

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink
6 Jul 2023 at 5:39 pm UTC

Quoting: jordicomaI want imagination to make PowerVR gpus for computers like before.
They tried with the Kyro series a couple decades ago, but it was a bit of a flop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series3_%28STMicro%29 [External Link]

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 14 years old today
5 Jul 2023 at 10:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

I just noticed the mascot in the top banner changes what is being held beneath the flipper; different controllers show up, including a Steam Deck playing what looks like a Star Wars game. Is that new, or have I just been blind? ;-D

You'll be building your own dungeons in Quest Master
13 Jun 2023 at 4:11 pm UTC

It's nice to see Apogee making (publishing?) games again.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 announced for $269 with 8GB VRAM
25 May 2023 at 6:05 am UTC Likes: 1

Even with all the talk about 8GB VRAM simply not being enough now
This just seems obscene to me...

Besides the (always useful) phoronix benchmarks, I also find this helpful in finding good value:
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html [External Link]

It doesn't have data for the latest models just yet, but you can see that the RX 6650 XT is a great value; I considered one a few months back, but got a good deal on a 3060Ti.

This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited
25 May 2023 at 5:46 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MaathI wonder, whatever happened to the Ogre engine?
Still getting regular releases:
https://www.ogre3d.org/news [External Link]

But apparently not terribly popular for public projects; their survey results seem to indicate it gets used by people for internal projects.

Steam gets game trials with Dead Space being first, plus Valve dumps Google Analytics
17 May 2023 at 5:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: itscalledrealityValve also separated the Steam Play enable checkboxes. The new default checkbox only allows you to install Windows games if the Steam Compatibility Tool says it’s okay. There is now a second checkbox for installing all software with Steam Play. Very very very annoying when I tried to install Yume Nikku.
Say what now? That's how it's been from the very beginning. They only changed it for Steam Deck.

Roots of Pacha removed from Steam after fight with publisher Crytivo
15 May 2023 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Liam Dawearguably with Proton, you still get the game. Kickstarter should really be used if you like the game idea, not specifically the Linux side of it.
Just speaking for myself, but I fund Kickstarter projects for the promised native Linux support. If they don't deliver on that, I consider it a failed Kickstarter, as it's not what I funded. There are tons of games already available that I can play with Proton, and if the project "runs great with Proton" I'll pick it up when it's been out for a while, and is on sale. And I have to say, there have been a number of "finished" Kickstarter projects which are "failures" to me - although some do eventually complete - Divinity: Original Sin, Moebius, etc.

Roots of Pacha removed from Steam after fight with publisher Crytivo
15 May 2023 at 5:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the other hand, the publishers sound like jerks and I don't know what the hell a "publisher" is supposed to really do these days.
I don't know the situation here, and there are definitely publishers who pull lots of "dick" moves, but often the role of a "publisher" is to provide funding for development up front. So the developers have funding from the Kickstarter, plus extra funding from the publisher, to keep them running until they actually have something they can sell. That means that the publisher takes on a lot of risk (funding something which may not finish, or have lousy sales), and so they tend to contractually give themselves a large cut of the (eventual) revenue. So if the devs took the money up front, and now have sour grapes because they have something that is selling well, they may not be legally or morally in the right either.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.7.1 hotfix 1 fixes up Epic Games login
4 May 2023 at 5:03 am UTC Likes: 1

I noticed yesterday that the Epic login wasn't working / failing on the captcha, but the alternative login method worked. Today, after updating to the new version, it said I was still logged into Epic, but wouldn't show anything in the library until I logged out and logged in with the captcha.