This is the latest rumor that’s been hitting the interwebs! Apparently this speculation is coming from Ars Technica, which is not your average tabloid. There’s not much substance per se to report at this stage, but some elements are indeed… 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
It’s a relatively new project on the scene, but it’s been making some noise for a little while now. DXVK is a layer for WINE to convert DX11 calls on the fly to Vulkan. It’s not an integral part of… Continue Reading
Vulkan is a great graphics API. It had a little problem, namely adoption. Apple did not support Vulkan in any way, instead recommending developers for macOS and iOS devices to use Metal, their home-made API. For games developers, this meant… Continue Reading
Following the previous podcast with Icculus, here’s now the second part of our conversation with him. In the previous part (that you ought to read/listen to before going through this article), we came back on what brought Ryan Gordon to… Continue Reading
Feral Interactive has been good to us racing games fans. After GRID Autosport, F1 2015 (unfortunately an average game) and the recent Dirt Rally (as reviewed), here is a new Codemasters game landing on Linux (after the Mac/Metal client). A… Continue Reading
Feral has announced at the end of last week that they were working on releasing F1 2017 on the Linux platform (i.e. Ubuntu and SteamOS as target distributions) by the 2nd of November 2017. This confirms our previous assumptions based… Continue Reading
Following the release of Dawn of War III on Linux (see our review), and its related Vulkan renderer, Feral has reached another step in its usage of the new API, after its first successful Mad max experiment. Yet, as you… Continue Reading
As you know, I am not as much interested in SteamOS as I used to be (long story short: my patience grew thing when I ended up hitting the same issues over and over again, and drivers not being updated… Continue Reading
It’s been something like a month now since Feral released a public beta of Mad Max’s Vulkan Renderer, following the initial port released last year using OpenGL. The effort to support Vulkan is natural as it is seen as the… Continue Reading