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UAlbion is an open source game engine for the 1995 classic RPG 'Albion'

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 6, 2020 9:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 6, 2020 6:07 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.

Stuck for a new game? Here's over 50 great games released for Linux in 2019

I know how it is, you look at your list of games and think "I need something new!" and then you click around Steam, GOG, Humble, itch and more and end up going back to the safety of what you already know. Here to help with that!

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 4, 2020 4:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 4, 2020 6:58 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Mint
Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre wrote another of their monthly progress reports on how Linux Mint and their Cinnamon desktop are doing and it's all great news.

Steam hits a new all-time high for users online, Linux share rises

Two quick bits of Steam news to cover this wonderful Monday morning. As expected, Steam does still appear to be growing.

NVIDIA end updates to the 340 series legacy driver for Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 3, 2020 6:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
If you have an older NVIDIA GPU, chances are you've been using the 340 legacy series. Well, NVIDIA have said that it's no longer getting updates.

Descent 3 returns to Linux (and macOS) with an official modern port

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 2, 2020 2:06 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a developer who has ported tons of games to Linux has done it again. Descent 3, has been re-ported and upgraded for Linux (and macOS).

Monitor and stress-test your Linux gaming PC with GtkStressTesting

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 30, 2020 2:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Monitoring your Linux gaming PC is pretty easy, there's some good applications out there to keep an eye on CPU use and more but what about some stress testing to see how it holds up? GtkStressTesting seems nice.

Zombie Panic! Source getting the big 3.1 release with Linux support 'as soon as possible' - needs testing

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 30, 2020 8:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The Zombie Panic! Team put out another update on the progress towards version 3.1, what's turned into a massive overhaul to many parts of the game as Linux support also comes in.

'ReDoomEd', a port of the original Doom level editor, was released on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 29, 2020 11:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
DoomEd was a program written by Carmack and Romero in 1993, to directly build the levels from the original Doom. Twenty seven years later, the developers behind Twilight Edge Software are releasing a free and independent port based on that program.

Get ready to live a Life of Crime with Kingpin: Reloaded announced by 3D Realms - will be coming to Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 28, 2020 9:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Kingpin: Life of Crime is being remastered with 3D Realms recently announced Kingpin: Reloaded bringing new life to the Quake II engine classic.

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on Linux

Sad news today Linux gamers, Psyonix emailed us directly to make sure we saw the news that they're officially ending support of Rocket League on Linux and macOS.

New stable Steam Client up, fixing Steam Survey and NFS mounts on Linux, plus other Steam news

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 24, 2020 12:16 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The first stable update for the Steam Client of 2020, pulling in all the recent changes from the Beta versions. Some needed fixes for Linux are in.

Need a distraction-free art application on Linux? Try out MyPaint

If you have a Wacom-style graphic tablet and you need a simple and distraction-free painting program, MyPaint seems like it could be a really good fit.

The bottle for Wine 5.0 has officially been popped open as it's out now

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 23, 2020 2:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The day has arrived, the official stable release of Wine 5.0 has arrived bringing thousands of improvements and a bunch of new features.

Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up

Today, The Khronos Group has released the next big update the Vulkan graphics API specification with Vulkan 1.2 now available.

Boxtron, the Steam Play tool to run games through a native DOSBox on Linux has a new release

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 17, 2020 12:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Boxtron is another awesome Steam Play tool! Covered here a few times now, like Proton it enables you to play games on Linux that don't have a Linux build setup on Steam only this is for DOSBox games.

Valve continue working behind the scenes for Linux gaming with 'Gamescope'

Valve are definitely up to something. For a little while, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has been tweaking steamcompmgr, the SteamOS session compositing window manager.

Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming

Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. They've now given some more info on what it actually does for Linux.

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