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System76 laptops are on sale, plus they will donate to select open source projects from sales until Jan 3rd

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

After recently releasing their own in-house designed Thelio desktop system, System76 have announced they're giving away some funding to open source projects from laptop sales.

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Free and open source RTS 'Wyrmsun' has a big update with a new civilization, new buildings and more

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2018

Wyrmsun, the free and open source retro-looking RTS just had a sizeable update with some great new stuff included.

The excellent Streets of Rogue has another update adding lots of little things and improved performance

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2018

Easily one of my favourite games for being absolutely nuts, Streets of Rogue has been updated yet again.

DXVK for Direct3D 11 with Vulkan in Wine has another update with 0.53

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2018

DXVK advances so quickly it's really quite incredible, it had a release only a few days ago and here we are with another.

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Wipeout-inspired racer BallisticNG now has Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2018

For those who remember Wipeout, the fast-paced futuristic racer you will probably want to take a close look at BallisticNG now it has Linux support.

Testing F1 2017 Linux port on AMD GPUs

By Samsai, 3 Nov 2017

You have likely read Liam’s thoughts and port review of F1 2017. I am going to complement his work by bringing you some numbers from the AMD side of things with my RX 580 and R7 370. So, hold onto your hats for we are benchmarking now!

Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU

By Samsai, 19 Jun 2017

Inspired by the recent release of Dawn of War 3, I decided to try out the experimental GCN 1.0 support in the new AMDGPU kernel driver and share my experiences.

Total War: Shogun 2 & Fall of the Samurai released for Linux, port review and thoughts

By Samsai, 23 May 2017

The Linux ports of Total War: Shogun 2 & Fall of the Samurai have now been shipped by Feral Interactive. Here's a port report and a review based on gameplay of Shogun 2 itself.

So, I played... Black Mesa

By Samsai, 13 Mar 2017

Oh boy, this review has been in the works for ages now but I decided that it’s better late than never and I’ve finally compiled my thoughts on Black Mesa, the fan remake of Half-Life. So, let’s check it out!

DiRT Rally tested on R7 370 and an A10-9600p APU

By Samsai, 3 Mar 2017

I might be just a bit late with these numbers but I figured I’d share them nonetheless. Let’s check out how well DiRT Rally runs on my Radeon hardware!

DiRT Rally system requirements revealed ahead of the Linux release next month, NVIDIA & AMD supported

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Feral Interactive have released the specifications required to run DiRT Rally that will release on March 2nd for Linux.

Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes

By Samsai, 5 Jan 2017

The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution released for Linux, port report and thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2016

Feral Interactive have ported another set of cracking good games. This time we have Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution to fill our strategy needs!

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution announced for Linux this month!

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2016

Do not adjust your monitors, you read that correctly. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution are officially coming to Linux and will be released on September 29th.

Wargame: European Escalation works once again for Nvidia users, two years after breaking

By Liam Dawe, 11 Sep 2016

It seems Wargame: European Escalation was broken for nearly two years for Nvidia GPU users on Linux. The recent Nvidia 370.28 driver seems to have fixed it.