Attempt 4 - Collabora sends in futex2 patches for the Linux Kernel to help Wine / Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Here we go again, open source consulting firm Collabora have sent in the futex2 patches to the Linux Kernel for a fourth time now even more work has been done with the aim to help Wine and Steam Play Proton.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets some big changes for non-Prime accounts

By Liam Dawe,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is going through some changes, as Valve attempt to deal with the bad actors now it's free to play with big changes to non-Prime accounts.

Rainbow Six Siege launching on Stadia, along with a big Ubisoft+ expansion

By Liam Dawe,
It appears that at least Ubisoft are being serious about Stadia, with Ubisoft+ rolling out to more countries and they're bringing a bunch more games to Stadia too.

The Seagull is an upcoming stylized 3D adaption of the classic by Anton Chekhov

By Liam Dawe,
The Seagull, a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov is getting a full stylized 3D adaption from Team Dogpit when it releases later this year.

War Thunder "Red Skies" brings many new machines and new locations

By Liam Dawe,
Do you hear that? It's the War Thunder! It's back with another huge upgrade named "Red Skies" which comes with plenty of new toys to play with across different nations.

Loved Celeste? You're going to want to play brain-twisting precision platformer Sunblaze

By Liam Dawe,
Celeste was tough, incredible and beautiful but controller-throwing annoying and Sunblaze sits along nicely beside it now as one of my new favourites.

If you're looking for a virtual table-top check out the latest Foundry VTT

By Liam Dawe,
Foundry VTT (Foundry Virtual Tabletop) is probably one of the absolute best there is for playing virtual table-top games on Linux and there's a huge new release out with a new video to explain the whole thing.

Thousand Lives is an upcoming minimalist rogue-lite role playing life simulation

By Liam Dawe,
Thousand Lives is a fresh take on a text-adventure styled RPG rogue-lite adventure, and from the little we've seen it's easily worth keeping an eye on.

Loop Hero gets a big 1.1 Beta upgrade and a mini-documentary

By Liam Dawe,
After being something of a mega indie hit when it launched Loop Hero quietened down quite a lot but it back with a fresh Beta upgrade and it's a big one.

Pop!_OS 21.04 has a Beta out now with their new COSMIC desktop

By Liam Dawe,
System76 have recently released the first Beta of their Linux distribution Pop!_OS 21.04, which comes with their brand new COSMIC desktop environment.

Atari VCS finally actually launches (in the US) on June 15

By Liam Dawe,
After the crowdfunding campaign with lots of delays, more delays, a lawsuit and so on the Atari VCS will finally be released into stores (at least in the US) on June 15.

Proton Experimental prepares for NVIDIA DLSS, optional NVAPI and more game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and CodeWeavers have released another fresh Proton Experimental build for testing upcoming features of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux gaming with Steam Play.

It's been over "20 years in the making", Blender 2.93 LTS is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The Blender team today are making quite the super-effective splash about the Blender 2.93 LTS release mentioning how it's been "20 years in the making".

Total War: ROME REMASTERED gets a small first patch, devs looking into AI improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: ROME REMASTERED had a bit of a rocky start to life but Feral Interactive, Creative Assembly and SEGA are planning to keep improving it which sounds good.

Creators of Warhammer 40K Gladius have announced their new 4x strategy ZEPHON

By Liam Dawe,
Proxy Studios, developer of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius and Pandora: First Contact have just recently announced their brand new upcoming 4x strategy game ZEPHON.

Star Drifters talk their Linux sales for titles like Danger Scavenger, plus a key giveaway

By Liam Dawe,
Star Drifters recently did their first native Linux release with Danger Scavenger, so their Community & PR Manager got in touch to mention how it all went.

OBS Studio 27.0 out with service integration, browser dock support and Wayland on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio 27.0 is now officially out marking one of the biggest releases they've ever done, especially if you're a Linux user and it's looking great.

Deck-building roguelite Griftlands from Klei is out now and it's wonderful

By Liam Dawe,
After only recently adding Linux support, Klei Entertainment has now officially released their incredibly stylish and engrossing deck-builder Griftlands.

itch.io hosting a huge Queer Games Bundle 2021 with hundreds included

By Liam Dawe,
Want to support small teams and queer creators? Well here's a good chance for you with the itch.io Queer Games Bundle 2021 and there's quite a lot inside.

Judge upholds $4M damages in the patent case against Valve for the Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe,
Back in February 2021 we wrote an article about how Ironburg Inventions (a subsidiary of Corsair Gaming) were suing Valve for the Steam Controller and Valve has now firmly lost the case.