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Steam Play Proton 5.0-4 is up fixing Origin, GTA V, Denuvo and more on Linux

Another new release of Steam Play's Proton software is up and while small in number of changes, it's quite a mighty update overall for this Linux compatibility layer.

SDL 2, the hugely important cross-platform development library updated to 2.0.12

SDL 2 (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is the go-to solution for many developers doing cross-platform work, providing an API to hook into audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware across various platforms and a big new release is out.

Diablo on Linux levels up again with a new devilutionX release

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 11, 2020 5:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Diablo on Linux. Sound familiar? Well, we only just recently talked about Freeablo and now devilutionX has a brand new release made available for this classic.

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, a tactical RPG is funded and on the way to Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 7, 2020 7:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint from Trese Brothers, a tactical RPG set in the neon-soaked future of 2231 is now funded on Kickstarter and on the way to Linux.

Dandara gets a big free update with the Trials of Fear Edition - available on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 7, 2020 8:19 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Dandara was quite a surprise, a metroidvania platformer with a gravity-defying movement mechanic that entirely changed you how play and it just got a big update with the Trials of Fear Edition.

OBS Studio gains another big sponsor with Facebook

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 1, 2020 6:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Do you make videos? Livestream? Well, you probably know of or use the cross-platform open source OBS Studio and how it's basically the go-to for such things and they just gained another huge sponsor.

Metro Exodus to get a release date for Linux "soon" say 4A Games

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 29, 2020 8:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Recently, Metro Exodus ended its Epic Store exclusivity and Deep Silver (the publisher) confirmed it was heading to Linux. In a recent Reddit AMA (Ask me anything), the developer 4A Games mentioned the Linux port too.

Blendo Games have open sourced their strategic space adventure 'Flotilla'

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 29, 2020 9:19 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
To celebrate Flotilla turning 10 years old, Blendo Games announced today that it's been made open source.

Open source 'Panfrost' driver for Mali GPUs gets initial GLES 3.0 support

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 28, 2020 6:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Do you have a system laying around rocking a Mali GPU (perhaps in a Chromebook)? The good news is Mesa just got experimental support for OpenGL ES (GLES) 3.0 to give them more advanced graphics support.

Popular free rhythm game 'osu!' now provides a Linux build with releases

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 24, 2020 1:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
osu!, going under the current development name of osu!lazer is a very popular free rhythm game and they're now doing official builds for Linux gamers.

Canonical need a little testing hand for a newer Steam package on Ubuntu 20.04

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 24, 2020 5:41 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Games, Ubuntu
With Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" being released in the next few months, the team over at Canonical are looking for a little help testing their updated Steam package.

NVIDIA talk up bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 24, 2020 3:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
With Ray Tracing becoming ever more popular, NVIDIA have written up a technical post on bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan to encourage more developers to do it.

Challenging turn-based RPG 'Stoneshard' now available for Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 23, 2020 3:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
True to their word, Ink Stains Games have delivered a Linux version of their open-world turn-based RPG Stoneshard that's currently in Early Access.

Metro Exodus is now live on Steam and Deep Silver say it's coming to Linux

While Metro Exodus was exclusive to the Epic Games Store for a while, it later went live on Google Stadia (which is Debian Linux) and today it's finally available on Steam. It also appears to be coming to the Linux desktop with news on that due soon.

Looks like the narrative thriller 'The Suicide of Rachel Foster' will come to Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 15, 2020 12:39 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Releasing next week on February 19, it's looking like 'The Suicide of Rachel Foster' will also be coming to Linux although it's not clear yet exactly when.

Mutant soap opera adventure 'Mutazione' now available for Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 14, 2020 11:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Nominated for multiple awards so it must be a little bit special, the mutant soap opera adventure Mutazione has now been released for Linux.

Logitech Wheel manager 'Oversteer' has a huge new release - also check out 'new-lg4ff' for more features

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 14, 2020 4:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Oversteer is quite possibly one of my favourite open source applications, as it's made working with my own Logitech G29 a really great experience.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over - here's the winners

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in so it's time to show the top five for each group.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update

CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.

Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK has another small release up

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 9, 2020 7:08 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Another fresh release of the Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer, DXVK, was released today which continues their cycle of bug fixing.

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