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SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0
SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0

Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0.

16 March 2024 - SDL_Storage API - 18 Comments
Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device
Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device

When hearing of "Orange Pi Neo" this weekend from sources at FOSDEM 2024, I just assumed it was yet another Orange Pi single board computer... But then to hear it's a handheld game console from Orange Pi again gives off the impression of some low-power ARM device. It turns out though that the Orange Pi Neo is a forthcoming AMD Ryzen powered handheld gaming console.

5 February 2024 - Orange Pi Neo - 12 Comments
SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use
SDL 2.30 Released With New API Additions For Steam Use

While all major feature development for the Simple DirectMedia Layer "SDL" is currently focused on SDL 3.0 for this library commonly used by cross-platform games for various hardware/software abstractions, SDL 2.30 released on Thursday as a new point release in the SDL2 series.

2 February 2024 - SDL 2.30 - 4 Comments
"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU
"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU

Embark Studios' The Finals free-to-play first person shooter has proven quite popular since its release in early December. The Finals is a game powered by Unreal Engine 5 that has been running on Linux thanks to Valve's Steam Play (Proton + VKD3D-Proton). With the latest Mesa driver activity, Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with their open-source driver can now handle this popular game.

15 January 2024 - Intel XeSS Workaround - 18 Comments
ScummVM 2.8 Gets More Games Running
ScummVM 2.8 Gets More Games Running

ScummVM 2.8 is out this New Year's weekend to end out 2023 by getting more games running on this open-source software that started out re-implementing LucasArts adventure games and other game titles.

30 December 2023 - ScummVM 2.8 - 5 Comments
Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots
Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots

Unvanquished has been a promising open-source first person shooter game in development for over a decade. It started out putting monthly alpha releases and quite a brisk development pace but in recent years the releases have been much less frequent. This year started out with Unvanquished 0.54 being released and in now approaching the end of the year is seeing a new point release.

10 December 2023 - Unvanquished 0.54.1 - 11 Comments
W4 Games Raises $15M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot
W4 Games Raises $15M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot

Last year W4 Games was formed by Godot game engine developers as part of an effort to strengthen the open-source Godot ecosystem as well as work on commercial products and services, such as integrating with the proprietary game console/cloud platforms. They started out with $8.5 million dollars last year while this week announced a series A funding round of $15M.

9 December 2023 - W4 Games - 11 Comments
Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking
Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking

While there hasn't been much in the way of new Linux game ports from Feral Interactive since Steam Play (Valve's Proton + VKD3D-Proton) took over the scene, they do continue maintaining their GameMode open-source service and today released GameMode 1.8 with work by them and the open-source community.

6 December 2023 - GameMode 1.8 - 8 Comments
PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default
PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default

While more applications continue enabling Wayland support and getting into a shape by default, the PCSX2 open-source PlayStation 2 emulator recently moved in the opposite direction: disabling Wayland support for their distributed builds.

26 November 2023 - PCSX2 - 153 Comments
Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux
Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux

Lutris 0.5.14 is out today as the newest feature update to this Python-written open-source solution for managing your games on Linux whether they be native titles or via Steam Play / Wine as well as integrating into popular gaming services like Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and EA App. With Lutris 0.5.14 this centralized Linux game launcher has picked up some additional capabilities.

20 October 2023 - Lutris 0.5.14 - 11 Comments
Polychromatic 0.8.2 Released For Managing Razer Peripherals On Linux
Polychromatic 0.8.2 Released For Managing Razer Peripherals On Linux

Polychromatic continues evolving as the open-source management software for Razer peripherals on Linux that makes use of the independently-developed OpenRazer kernel drivers for improving the customization experience around Razer mice, keyboards, and other devices on Linux.

8 October 2023 - Polychromatic + OpenRazer - 4 Comments
AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git
AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git

With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel.

16 September 2023 - AMD Ryzen + Radeon Linux 6.6 Gaming - 13 Comments
CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes
CrossOver 23 Enables EA App On Linux, Many Fixes

While many Linux gamers are all-set these days by making use of Steam and leveraging Valve's Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux, for those running macOS or also wishing to enjoy more office/application-oriented Windows software on Linux support, CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 23 as the newest release of their commercial Wine-based software.

16 August 2023 - CrossOver 23 - 20 Comments
SDL2 Now Transitioning To Maintenance Mode
SDL2 Now Transitioning To Maintenance Mode

With today's release of SDL 2.28 it also marks the SDL2 library entering maintenance mode for this open-source software that's relied upon by Valve and many cross-platform games.

20 June 2023 - SDL 2.28 Released - 10 Comments
VKD3D-Proton 2.9 Released With Performance Improvements
VKD3D-Proton 2.9 Released With Performance Improvements

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.9 as the latest major update to this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan API implementation that is used by Steam Play (Proton) for running modern Windows games on Linux.

19 May 2023 - VKD3D-Proton 2.9 - 14 Comments
D8VK v1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 8 Games Atop Vulkan
D8VK v1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 8 Games Atop Vulkan

While DXVK is used by Steam Play for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan and there is also VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 on Vulkan, D8VK's aim is for the aging Microsoft Direct3D 8 API atop Vulkan for enhancing the experience of older games on Linux.

10 May 2023 - D8VK 1.0 - 27 Comments
Open 3D Engine 23.05 Released With Many New Features
Open 3D Engine 23.05 Released With Many New Features

It's been just under two years since Amazon's Lumberyard game engine was spun into the Open 3D Engine and the Open 3D Foundation established under the Linux Foundation. Today the project is celebrating its newest open-source game engine update with Open 3D Engine 23.05.

4 May 2023 - Open 3D Engine 23.05 - 5 Comments
OpenRazer 3.6 Brings Support For New Razer Peripherals On Linux
OpenRazer 3.6 Brings Support For New Razer Peripherals On Linux

While prominent gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer still is not officially supporting Linux with their vast array of products, thanks to the community-driven OpenRazer project there is unofficial open-source support and can work quite well when paired with the likes of Polychromatic as a nice user interface. Out today is OpenRazer 3.6 in enabling the latest Razer products on Linux.

30 April 2023 - OpenRazer 3.6 - 7 Comments

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