We tend to regard Feral and Aspyr as the key porting companies in the Linux world, yet this would be reductive. More individuals and companies dedicate themselves to porting games on Linux, infrequently making headlines. But we ought not discount… Continue Reading
A few days ago, the Steam Machines page on the Steam client suddenly disappeared while there were still some links towards a few models kind of available. Outrage! Valve is abandoning Steam Machines! SteamOS will be the next to be… Continue Reading
While it was certainly looking like a scam at some point (accepting money, with no prototype at all, and uber-optimistic hardware delivery timelines), it looks like the Smach Z project is making some serious progress. They have announced the final… Continue Reading
If you are like me and use different controllers to play games on Steam, such as the Dual Shock 4 from Sony (don’t forget you can use it on Linux using the excellent ds4drv driver), you will find that sometimes… Continue Reading
Recently I was in the business of replacing one of my machines at home (all running Linux by the way), and while I had initially considered simply replacing parts at first, I became aware through various channels of the availability… Continue Reading
Atari has just revealed via a mailchimp newsletter than they intend to release their new retro-looking console, Ataribox, for 300$ in early 2018 (late spring). You may be wondering why we are even covering this? Well, big surprise, this will… Continue Reading
Yup, I am still digging in that Linux Gamers survey we conducted back in March 2017. Now on to a very different topic… no more GPU stories. This time we will be reviewing what gamepads Linux gamers are currently using.… Continue Reading
Following our survey conducted back in the end of March 2017, we have collected a wealth of information regarding the usage pattern of Linux gamers from the Reddit communities (hopefully a representative sample of the larger Linux gaming audience). You… Continue Reading
Following the Q1 2017 survey that we conducted at the end of March this year, we are going to share progressively some of its results, and today we start with a specific focus on a new question we have added… Continue Reading
A Linux gamer, PyGuy, has recently uploaded a video on youtube to demonstrate how things work with SteamVR on Linux so far, using Serious Sam VR to show what the system is capable of. First, it’s not plug and play… Continue Reading