Latest Articles - Page: 879

The guys over at itch are doing some truly interesting work. The itch store is open to all developers, they have an open source client and they talk openly about their work. A developer of their games client has written up about how they compress data for downloads.

During the livestream I did last night I had one of those moments where you fully appreciate how far Linux gaming has come.

Samuel Pitoiset (Valve) discovered an issue in radeonsi (Mesa) that Marek Olšák has now patched up and is already in Mesa-git.

Wine 2.0-rc6 is now available and it brings in another 21 bug fixes which should make this a seriously stable release. It has no new features, as they are in a code freeze.

Albion Online, the Linux-friendly MMO has another blog post and video detailing changes coming to this interesting MMO.

If you fancy scaring yourself silly this weekend, be sure to check out Alien: Isolation - The Collection which is 70% off on the Feral Interactive store.

As Samsai is away on secret business, I will be taking control of the Friday livestream today and probably next week too. I will be livestreaming Saturday as well, so double the Liam fun!

If you weren't already sold on Yooka-Laylee, this new multiplayer trailer might just sell you on it and it looks fantastic.

Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.

Originally available to anyone who went to a physical Games Workshop store, this Legendary Lord has now been made available for free on Steam if you own the game.

The upcoming RPG by inXile Entertainment is looking good. There’s a pair of new trailers that show off more of the game systems and offer a preview of what we can expect once the game is out.

The next installment in the noir point and click adventure will be arriving soon. This humor-laced adventure will throw more of everything at the player, including more crime bosses and allies.

SteamOS isn't being left out in the cold like some would believe, as it too today got a big update with new shiny stuff.

This is the big one. Steam have released a major update of the Steam client which not only adds in some big new features, it also drastically improves the Linux client.

In May it will be five years since the Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter. Linux support was a stretch goal they reached and we still have nothing to show for it.

Imperium Galactica II: Alliances just released for Linux & SteamOS and it looks like it's a native version.

Long War 2 is the massive overhaul mod for XCOM 2 from the same people who did the original Long War for the previous XCOM game.

Our contributor Cheeseness went to 'linux.conf.au' and did a talk on porting games to Linux, it's worth a watch.

Mesa 17 (formerly Mesa 13.1) has it's first Release Candidate and it's a pretty big release for users of open source graphic drivers.

Fumiko! A new single-player, story-driven game that has been developed with Unity and Linux is coming out next month. It looks absolutely bizarre, but in a good way.