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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and XCOM 2 are both super cheap this weekend
4 February 2017 at 12:11 pm UTC
@Kujo: I have an AMD RX 480. With the current Mesa git 17.1 it is playable @ > 30 fps if you do reduce the graphics settings a bit. The driver has been tweaked a lot in the last weeks.
Cossacks 3 for Linux finally has a release date and it's close (updated)
3 February 2017 at 10:36 am UTC Likes: 1
Great, I am really looking forward to it!
DiRT Rally announced for Linux, arriving on March 2nd
2 February 2017 at 1:31 pm UTC Likes: 3
Great news again, Feral! I already own all your other Gnu/Linux ports and I will definitely go for this one as well (from the Feral store, not Steam) ;) Thanks!
An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia'
1 February 2017 at 6:25 pm UTC
@Shmerl: what kind of setup are you using for programming instead of an IDE? Is it based on a text editor like vim/emacs?
An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia'
1 February 2017 at 6:07 pm UTC Likes: 2
Thanks for the great interview, Liam and Simon Roth. The game looks really great. I am reluctant to buy early access titles but I'll keep a close eye on it.

In terms of IDE: I guess you have tried Eclipse. Would be interesting to know why you decided against it.
Mesa 13.0.4 stable released, time to update to get the latest fixes
1 February 2017 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 1
Just compiled and installed it. Nice to see these maintenance uodates even with the next major release around the corner.
GOG adds the classic strategy game 'Constructor' with Linux support thanks to DOSBox, it's free until tomorrow
31 January 2017 at 5:32 pm UTC
Very nice! Thanks, gog!
Albion Online announce new equipment, new PvE content and more coming in the 'Galahad' update
20 January 2017 at 6:07 pm UTC
I bought Albion Online when the beta started. But haven't really played more than one hour so far ;-) I'll certainly take a closer look when the full release happens. I do like the effort they are putting into it.
The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons
17 January 2017 at 4:48 pm UTC Likes: 4
Mesa is an open source / free software graphics driver package for Linux. It includes drivers for different graphics cards from different vendors (i.e. Intel, Nvidia, AMD). The Nvidia driver in this package is called nouveau.

Mesa is an open source / free software alternative to the proprietary drivers provided by the graphics cards vendors (e.g. Nvidia's proprietary driver).

These drivers provide an API for developers to write their 3D programs. For GNU/Linux this was typically OpenGL. Recently a new API was created which aims to offer more low-level access to graphics cards features and thus potentially provide more performance. The name of this API is Vulkan. On Windows you have Direct3D as another alternative.

For Nvidia graphics cards on Linux most users go with the proprietary drivers and not Mesa. For AMD graphics cards it is the other way around. So if you have an Nvidia card you would probably want to stick to the proprietary drivers (which provide OpenGL and Vulkan btw.) and not care so much about Mesa.

I am not at all an expert on this topic, so please correct me if necessary.
Exploring a floating island in 'Pocket Kingdom', a very well done throwback to Amiga games
17 January 2017 at 4:32 pm UTC
I wish they would release this game DRM free (e.g. on gog or itch.io). While I do not like DRM in general, it feels especially wrong for retro games.
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