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Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Aug 1, 2019 7:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
ACO is a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD hardware, announced by Valve earlier this month. It's aimed as a replacement for LLVM and its main two goals are best-possible code generation for game shaders, and fastest-possible compilation speed.

Waves 2: Notorious, an absolutely mad twin-stick shooter arrives on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Aug 1, 2019 4:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
As a follow-up to 2011's Waves, Waves 2: Notorious has arrived on Linux as part of the 0.73 Early Access update on Steam.

SDL 2.0.10 released, testing a more regular release cycle

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 28, 2019 10:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
If you're a game developer, you've likely heard of SDL 2 and plenty of you are probably already using it. In fact, SDL 2 helps power a huge amount of Linux games and a new release is out now.

The streamlined fighting game "Fantasy Strike" has now officially released for Linux

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 27, 2019 10:04 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Featuring Linux support, Fantasy Strike is a fighting game that's quite streamlined giving more people an opportunity to enjoy it while still being difficult to master.

Deck-building post-apocalypse roguelike "Nowhere Prophet" is out now for Linux

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 26, 2019 10:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Nowhere Prophet, a deck-builder with a difference where your cards truly matter has been officially released with Linux support this week so I took a look.

The Great Perhaps is a time-travelling adventure coming to Linux next month

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 26, 2019 4:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Daedalic Entertainment and Caligari Games recently announced that their time-travelling adventure and puzzle game The Great Perhaps is coming to Linux.

The Linux-powered Atari VCS sounds like it's coming along

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 26, 2019 6:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The team behind the retro-inspired and Linux-powered gaming box, the Atari VCS, have put out an "Early Summer Update" of what's going on with the project.

Action adventure platformer "The Forbidden Arts" is planning to support Linux

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 25, 2019 6:19 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The Forbidden Arts, an action adventure platformer with a focus on both discovery and exploration is going to be coming to Linux.

Cortex Command from Data Realms goes open source

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 14, 2019 6:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Cortex Command, a side-scrolling 2D action game originally released back in 2012 has now officially gone open source.

A simple guide to Steam Play, Valve's technology for playing Windows games on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 13, 2019 1:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Games
Looking to test the waters with Linux gaming and don't want to lose access to your favourite Windows games? Here's a simple no-nonsense guide to actually using Steam Play.

Ubuntu LTS releases (and so derivatives too) to get updated NVIDIA drivers without PPAs

Good news everyone! Canonical will now be offering NVIDIA users up to date graphics drivers without the need to resort to a PPA or anything else.

Throw your Owl at everything in "Eagle Island", out now with Linux support

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 12, 2019 10:13 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Games
Few games have a demo that capture my interest so intensely as Eagle Island, thankfully my enjoyment of the demo translated well into the full game.

FOSS game engine "OpenRCT2" for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a fresh release out

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 12, 2019 8:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Ready to build some fantastic rides again? FOSS game engine OpenRCT2 has a brand new release available for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Linux.

GamingOnLinux celebrates writing about Linux gaming for 10 years

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jul 5, 2019 3:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Games
Today, GamingOnLinux (the website) officially turns 10 years old, this is madness and here’s some thoughts and history on it all.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS reviewed for Linux, port by Feral Interactive

The latest entry in the Total War franchise has had me battling all over China in a bid to obtain the mandate of heaven. Becoming emperor is easier when you've got good friends.

Valve release an official statement about the future of Linux support, they "remain committed" to Linux gaming

After the recent upset caused by Canonical's plan to drop 32bit support in Ubuntu, then to turn around and change their plan due to the uproar caused by it, Valve now have a full statement out about their future support of Linux gaming.

Surreal adventure game 'ZED' released for Linux, plus an interview

ZED, a game that might make your own head spin a bit, as you assume the role of an aging artist whose mind isn’t quite all there. Now on Linux, plus an interview.

Epic's Tim Sweeney thinks Wine "is the one hope for breaking the cycle", Easy Anti-Cheat continuing Linux support

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jun 25, 2019 8:15 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
It seems Epic's CEO quite likes Wine and think it might help break the cycle of the majority playing games on Windows, also Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux is still on and Wine support to come.

Raspberry Pi 4 announced and available - sounds like a pretty nice upgrade, Raspbian now based on Debian 10

Not something we usually cover here, but it's a fun bit of hardware news. The Raspberry Pi 4 is now official and it's out and ready to pick up.

Canonical are now saying Ubuntu's 32bit is not being entirely dropped, 32bit libraries will be "frozen"

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jun 23, 2019 4:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
As an update to the situation around Canonical planning to drop 32bit support (and Valve saying bye-bye to Ubuntu 19.10+ support), apparently they're not. Instead, the 32bit libraries will be frozen. Are you confused yet? I sure am.

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