A look back over some popular articles for September 2020

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for September 2020, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover! If you wish to keep track of these overview posts you can with our Overview RSS - we might bring this back as a regular column to enable some catch-up and a place for chat in the comments.

Here's what was popular with our readers:

• NVIDIA announce the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 with 2nd generation RTX and then also The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)
  • Going over plenty of details on the new NVIDIA GPUs
• Microsoft Edge comes to Linux in October as a preview
  • That's right, no need to wipe your glasses as that's a real headline here. Microsoft are bringing their Microsoft Edge browser to Linux in October.
• Valve developer shows off Gamescope for Linux at XDC 2020
  • As we highlighted in our initial XDC 2020 article, one of the presentations this year was from a Valve developer who is working on Gamescope.
• With a rewritten rendering engine that gives Vulkan support, X-Plane 11.50 is out now
  • Laminar Research have now released a huge upgrade to their flight simulator with X-Plane 11.50, which brings in lots of rendering changes and advancements.
• Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
  • Stadia, GeForce NOW and Microsoft's own xCloud have more competition coming with Amazon formally throwing their controller onto the sofa with Amazon Luna. Interestingly it's powered by Windows but should still work in the browser on Linux.
• A cancelled old RTS named 'Hard Vacuum' gets revived with OpenRA
  • OpenRA, the highly versatile open source game engine you can use to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Dune 2000 and more is bringing a game back from the dead with Hard Vacuum.
• NVIDIA GeForce NOW on Linux can run without user agent spoofing in a browser
  • Looks like NVIDIA might be ready for the next push in cloud gaming with their GeForce NOW service, as it's even easier to run it on Linux.
• GNOME 3.38 'Orbis' is out now to showcase a modern Linux desktop
  • GNOME 3.38 "Orbis" just landed today, which brings in another 6 months of hacking away at all the tech behind the GNOME desktop for a fully modern Linux environment.
• A new security flaw is revealed with 'BlindSide' on Linux affecting Intel and AMD
  • VUSec have published and shown an example of a newly discovered flaw present with both Intel and AMD processors when used with Linux.
• Beamdog just gave Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition a big graphical boost
  • Beamdog have released the latest development updates to Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition for everyone, and it comes with some wonderful upgrades.
• Free first-person shooter-strategy 'Unvanquished' is now properly open source
  • After a long period of silence, it seems a lot was going on behind the scenes for Unvanquished and it's now properly open source all the way through.
• Story-driven, tactical stealth game Desperados III is now available on Linux PC
  • THQ Nordic and Mimimi Games kept to their word, with Desperados III now being officially released for Linux PC and macOS along with the latest update.
• Skullgirls developer Lab Zero lays off everyone who hadn't quit
  • Things didn't go well for Lab Zero Games, after many essential staff up and quit over the behaviour of studio owner Mike Zaimont.
• KDE Plasma 5.20 Beta is out and it's huge
  • While GNOME recently had their own big release, the KDE team aren't far behind for showing off their latest modern Linux desktop environment with Plasma 5.20 Beta.
• Enjoy the classic Unreal Tournament on modern platforms with OldUnreal - new update out
  • With the blessing of Epic Games, the team at OldUnreal continue maintaining the classic Unreal Tournament and they have a big new release out.
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs go open source
  • Frictional Games have announced that they've now open source the game engine behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs as open source under the GPL.
• Lenovo launches ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs with Ubuntu pre-loaded
  • Are you in the market for new Linux hardware? Lenovo are expanding their selection, with an announcement today of more Linux-ready ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs.
• Crusader Kings III is now out, some thoughts on the medieval mayhem
  • Paradox Development Studios’ newest entry in the character-driven medieval strategy series has come out today. And, boy, is it ever good to be the king.
• SteamTinkerLaunch is a huge all in one Linux wrapper tool for gaming
  • You all love to tinker right? SteamTinkerLaunch is an open source project to bundle together tons of available extra options for running your Steam games.
• NVIDIA confirms $40 billion deal to buy Arm
  • Huge industry news to mention this morning! NVIDIA has confirmed they're buying Arm for $40 billion.
• Manjaro Linux 20.1 'Mikah' is out now with a theme refresh
  • Manjaro Linux, the semi-rolling distribution based on Arch Linux has a new stable build release out with Manjaro 20.1 'Mikah'.
• Dell announce new XPS 13 laptop models, will support moving from Windows to Ubuntu
  • Dell is a company we don't often cover here, however we're now on their press lists and they sent over something quite interesting today with their new XPS 13 laptop models which come with the latest 11th Gen Intel Core processors. (ARTICLE UPDATED)
• Explore a nightmarish world of twisted religion in Blasphemous - now available for Linux
  • The Game Kitchen and Team17 have now delivered on their promise of official Linux (and macOS) support for Blasphemous as it's now available.
• A little round-up of Gamescom news for Linux PC fans
  • With Gamescom 2020 now over and done with, there was quite a lot of news to sift through and it's easy to get a bit lost. We're here to help, with a nice little round-up of what's going to be supported on Linux PC.

We published a total of 222 articles last month! You can see who contributed articles on this page. Don't forget we're much more than just news. We have a community Forum, we post public monthly updates of plans here, we have a Steam Tracker, a Crowdfunding List and lots more in the Sections menu on the navbar. 

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What was your favourite Linux and Gaming news through September 2020?