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It would only take one "killer" game for the Linux platform to explode its way into mainstream gaming, DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson told Polygon, revealing that the development studio would "strongly" like to get into Linux.

OS4 is based on Xubuntu Linux but is there enough of a difference to give OS4 a unique identity. The inclusion of an Amiga emulator is certainly a nice touch.

The successful game development studio Creative Assembly told in an interview, that the company is going to publish its latest strategy title Rome 2 for SteamOS.

We all love our smartphones and tablets, but they go out of style so fast. With newer and more powerful gadgets coming out every six months or so, it doesn’t take long for old phones to pile up around the house, especially if you’re on a family plan. You could recycle these old phones, or sell them, but we have a better idea. You should root it (here’s how to root) and turn it into a server for any one of the many needs you may have!

An interesting open-source project pointed out to Phoronix this week was an OpenRISC emulator that's written in JavaScript. Making things more interesting is that it can now even run Wayland and a Linux image with keyboard support while being able to use JavaScript and other common open-source programs from this JavaScript-based emulator that runs in modern browsers.

Broken Glass Studios announced a few days ago that The Dark Mod Standalone has reached 2.0 and is available for download, so now stealth game fans can get in on the action on Linux easily.

Korora was born out of a desire to make Linux easier for new users, while still being useful for experts. The main goal of Korora is to provide a complete, easy-to-use system for general computing. Originally based on Gentoo Linux in 2005, Korora was re-born in 2010 as a Fedora Remix with tweaks and extras to make the system "just work" out of the box.

Valve has updated the Linux build of the popular Left 4 Dead 2 game to fix some crashers and add microphone support.

... the likes of which the world has never seen!

Everybody are curiously waiting to see what Ubuntu 13.10 will offer to Ubuntu lovers. Ubuntu 13.10 Final beta is already out a week before. If you have Ubuntu 12,10, 12.04 Precise Pangolin or older version of Ubuntu on your system, and want to upgrade to this new release, just follow the simple steps below and you can easily upgrade from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy both Desktop and as well as Server editions.

APITrace has been around for a few years and has evolved into the best open-source application for OpenGL debugging and tracing/replaying of OpenGL events. APITrace also supports OpenGL ES and Direct3D/DirectDraw while new features continue to be added.

Two weeks after first publicly unveiling its unique dual-touchpad Steam Controller to the world, Valve has posted a video showing just how that controller will work with a variety of PC games, including those not specifically designed for the controller in the first place.

If you are a music enthusiast, you may often want to edit MP3 files for various reasons. In Linux, there are many free MP3 editor software tools at your disposal. This tutorial explains how to cut, split or edit MP3 files by using a Linux tool called audacity.

Earlier this week there was the news of Intel contributing their OpenMP Runtime to LLVM in order to advance the open-source compiler project. Now to end off the week is news that Apple, who continues to invest significantly into LLVM and employs many of the key contributors, has open-sourced their stack unwinder for the project.

Linux is not for everyone, just the way not everyone likes roses; some like lilies. Since an operating system is not a flower it’s less about preferences and more about what gets your job done in the best possible manner. An operating system is a very powerful tool which assists us in getting things done.

ISEE is shipping one of the tiniest Linux-enabled SODIMM style computer-on-modules we’ve encountered. The IGEP Aquila COM is based on TI’s popular, industrial-focused Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 system-on-chip, offers 3D-accelerated video, Ethernet, USB OTG and Host ports, serial, CAN, and numerous other interfaces, and is supported with a compact baseboard and Yocto-built embedded Linux.

In the most incalculably ironic twist of fate ever devised by the computer gods, the iPhone 5S with iOS 7 is afflicted by a bug that results in a random Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and then a complete reboot. While the iPhone BSOD lacks the mumbo-jumbo of mostly useless information that’s present on the Windows BSOD, the similarities between the iPhone 5S/iOS 7 and Windows BSODs are shocking — even the shade of blue is virtually the same.

Mad Catz announced $250 pre-orders for its Nvidia Tegra 4-based Android game console. The MOJO Micro-Console for Android ships with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, USB and Ethernet ports, and a separate gamepad controller with multiple modes for playing games on TVs, PCs, or other Android devices.

Irina Blok may have drawn one of the most recognized logos in the world, but her association with the green Android has not made her famous. Blok can think of only one incident when she garnered the public’s attention for designing it. In 2010, she and her 6-year-old daughter were in a movie theater waiting for “Alice in Wonderland” to begin when an Android logo flashed on the screen. Her daughter, Blok recalls, suddenly stood up and yelled, “My mommy invented that!” Everyone in the row in front of them turned around to stare. Blok was so embarrassed, she says, that she sank down behind her tub of popcorn.

VIDEO: Allan Clark, Chair of the OpenStack Foundation explains what the organization is now doing as it prepares for its new Havana release.