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Steam Machines Not Likely Until 2015

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2014

It looks like Valve will be delaying Steam Machines release untl next year thanks to doing more work on the controller. This is actually good news.

Why We Shouldn't Accept Bad Linux Ports

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2014

Thanks to the recent fiasco of The Witcher 2 I wanted to write down some thoughts on why we shouldn't accept bad quality ports from developers.

Steam In-Home Streaming Now Open To All, Linux Streaming To Come Soon

By Liam Dawe, 22 May 2014

Valve has finally opened up Steam's in-home streaming feature to everyone. Currently it allows you to Stream Windows games to different operating systems.

Alienware State Their Steam Machine Won't Be Very Profitable

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2014

Alienware's general manager spoke to another site about his thoughts on Steam Machines and how he feels theirs will sell.

Where Will AMD Take Their Drivers In Future On Linux?

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2014

Out of the ashes of my controversial thoughts on AMD in the post highlighting their new mini gaming box comes an editorial about AMD's graphics drivers.

Gigabyte's AMD Mini Gaming PC Gets A Downvote For Poor Linux Support

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2014

This is fun, Ars Technica a rather big general tech news website has done a review of Gigabyte's AMD powered mini gaming box and give it a demerit for its poor Linux support.

ROCCAT Ryos MK Glow Review

By Xpander, 27 Apr 2014

Its a time to give my personal review about my new keyboard. Roccat Ryos MK Glow - a Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with good opensource Linux driver support.

AMD Releases 14.4 Release Candidate Graphics Driver

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2014

AMD have pushed out a public Release Candidate of their 14.4 driver for users of AMD graphics chips. Nice to see them include change-logs now.

Hardware

Steam Controller May Not Arrive Until Near The End Of The Year

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2014

It seems the Steam Controller may not arrive until near the end of the year. The news comes thanks to PC Gamer & PAX.

Nvidia Releases 337.12 Beta Driver, Brings Back Over-clocking

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2014

Nvidia is looking to get even more serious about Linux with their push to put over-clocking back in the Linux driver, hooray!

Hardware

Are More AAA Games Waiting For Steam Machines?

By Liam Dawe, 7 Apr 2014

So, you all know by now that Tropico 5 has been pushed back for the Steam Machines release and it does beg the question, are more AAA games waiting for Steam Machines?

Steam Hardware Survey For March 2014, Linux Is Just Holding

By Liam Dawe, 7 Apr 2014

Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.

Interview With Stefan Achatz Developer Of ROCCAT Gaming Hardware Drivers For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2014

I took some time to have a chat with Stefan Achatz who took it upon himself to write drivers and interfaces for ROCCAT gaming hardware to make sure they work on Linux.

Facebook Buys Oculus VR, The Internet Freaks Out

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2014

So, you all heard about Facebook buying Oculus Rift right? I considered doing an article last night, but I decided to let my own and everyone else's hot heads cool down a bit.

Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Development Kit 2 Announced

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2014

Oculus has announced their second generation VR development kit with many improvements, it's closer to what the retail release will be.

Valve's Vogl OpenGL Debugger Now Works On AMD's Drivers

By Liam Dawe, 15 Mar 2014

Valve's Rich Geldreich has been busy, he has now fixed a number of issues that where driver specific to AMD, allowing the debugger to work for AMD now too.

Steam Controller Update, New Design Shown

By Liam Dawe, 14 Mar 2014

Valve has shown off the latest iteration of their Steam Controller and it's looking sexier than ever.

Proper Nvidia PhysX Linux Support Soon With Nvidia GameWorks

By Liam Dawe, 14 Mar 2014

Looks like Nvidia are stepping their game up, they announced Nvidia GameWorks recently and one their videos specifically mentions Linux support.

Puppy Arcade - Retro Gaming Live CD

By Scott Jarvis, 5 Mar 2014

Puppy Arcade is a FREE retro gaming operating system, with many emulators included for different systems & consoles, plus the multi-system rom browser 'Rom-Loader', and many other exclusive tools.

Valve Games On AMD Foss Drivers

By Half-Shot, 28 Feb 2014

It’s pretty common knowledge Nvidia users get some good drivers at the trade-off of binary blob drivers (or not, depending on your ethics) and that AMD are often left in the dust, but how can open source drivers change that?

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