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Open source gamepad config tool 'SC Controller' has a pre-release to support more gamepads

By Liam Dawe,
SC Controller is the rather fantastic open source configuration tool for the Steam Controller, only now it's expanding to cover more gamepads.

Atari are launching a new gaming system, the 'Ataribox' and it runs Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another Linux-based gaming system is coming, this time from Atari. The Ataribox will run on an AMD processor and it sounds quite interesting.

Setting a primary monitor for launching games in a dual monitor rig

By scaine,
If you have two monitors, launching games can be a bit hit or miss as to where they end up. Here's a way that you might take some of the pain out of simple gaming on a dual monitor set up.

Valve put the Steam Controller and Steam Link on a big sale again

By Liam Dawe,
Still haven't picked up a Steam Controller or Steam Link? This latest sale might tempt you to do so as they're cheap.

Entroware have unleashed Zeus, a powerful new "Ultra Mobile" Linux laptop

By Liam Dawe,
In the market for a pricey and powerful laptop? Zeus has descended from the heavens for your Linux needs.

The HTC Vive just had a price cut, VR just became a little more accessible

By Liam Dawe,
Virtual Reality just became a little more accessible, as the HTC Vive has had what looks like a permanent price cut!

AMD RX Vega GPUs released along with a new AMDGPU-PRO Driver

By Liam Dawe,
The brand new line of AMD GPUs are upon us, with the release of AMD RX Vega along with a new AMDGPU-PRO Driver.

The new Entroware Hybris could make a reasonable Linux gaming laptop

By Liam Dawe,
Entroware, the UK-based Linux hardware vendor have released two newer laptops and one of them could be a reasonable gaming unit.

Valve's Knuckles VR controller looks pretty decent, dev kits going out

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released in public a quick start guide for their new VR Knuckles controllers, they look pretty good.

The Steam Link & Steam Controller are on sale on Amazon & GAME

By Liam Dawe,
For those hardware enthusiasts looking for a cheap purchase, you might want to know that Amazon and GAME have discounted the Steam Link and Steam Controller. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU

By Samsai,
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.

The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux market-share has increased, slightly

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware Survey has been released and this time around Linux has actually increased the share by a small amount.

Shadow of Mordor on AMD Ryzen CPU suffers from a performance hit due to non-optimal thread scheduling

By ghem,
While doing some comparative benchmarks between my RX 470 and GTX 1060 on a Ryzen 1700 CPU and an i7-2700k CPU, I encountered odd behaviour with Shadow of Mordor.

AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' announced with up to 16 cores

By Liam Dawe,
Well then, AMD are truly back in the game now aren't they! They have announced the AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' which will come with up to 16 cores.

Steam Controller & Steam Link on sale for a few days, the Link is especially cheap

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have put up the Steam Controller and Steam Link for sale for the next few days and the Steam Link has a pretty big saving.

The 'Razer DeathAdder Chroma' is quite possibly the nicest mouse I've ever owned

By Liam Dawe,
After my wireless mouse finally stopped charging anything and the temporary £5 replacement mouse was just terrible, I decided to take a look at the Razer DeathAdder Chroma.

The next version of SDL will have Steam Controller support out of the box

By Liam Dawe,
If there's one thing that does frustrate me about the Steam Controller, it's that games often need SC Controller to be run if outside of Steam. If the game uses SDL, in future this may not be needed.

NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster

By Liam Dawe,
Based on their Pascal architecture, NVIDIA has announced their top-end GPU the 'TITAN Xp' and it's an absolute monster of a card.

The Entroware Kratos-3000 is another power-house laptop Linux users might be interested in

By Liam Dawe,
Entroware have updated their Linux laptop line-up again with the Kratos-3000 and it's a little beast for sure.

AMD have announced Ryzen 5 will launch in April

By Liam Dawe,
AMD initially launched Ryzen 7 their enthusiast higher performing chips, but now they're gearing up for the lower end with Ryzen 5 which will launch on April 11th.
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