Games: The Misfits, Steam Client Beta, RAZED, Lamplight City, Din's Legacy, Mavericks

• Free to play third-person shooter 'The Misfits' has a Linux version that's currently hidden on Steam, works well

  The Misfits, a free to play third-person shooter from PigDogGames that's currently in Early Access has a Linux version on Steam, although it's currently hidden it does work well.

• The latest Steam Client Beta has some fixes for Steam Play, Steam Link improvements and so on

  For those of you who like to live life on the edge, the Steam Client Beta was updated yesterday with some fixes for Steam Play amongst other things. For Steam Play, Valve fixed an issue with install scripts for Steam Play games sometimes not running correctly after you've used Big Picture Mode. Additionally, something a few people noticed with Steam Play was missing DLC, this should also now be fixed. Hopefully not long before those go in the stable client, since they can be quite troublesome issues.

• Fast-paced platform racer 'RAZED' is now out and it's pretty good

  Much like Sonic, the idea is to run as fast as you can while avoiding obstacles with your special running shoes. They're not your ordinary running shoes, since one of them will explode if you run out of energy which you accumulate by running. Any special abilities you have, will also use that same energy so if you use too much—boom!

• Lamplight City, the steampunk-ish detective adventure game is now out

  From developer Grundislav Games, who also made A Golden Wake, Lamplight City is a detective adventure set in a alternate "Victorian" setting.

• Din's Legacy action-RPG enters Early Access with Linux support

  Din's Legacy, the latest action-RPG from Soldak Entertainment has entered Early Access on Steam and early reports suggest it could be good when further developed.

• The MMO tactical shooter Mavericks has a release delay, Linux support still coming

  Mavericks [Official Site] is an incredibly promising sounding shooter with an interesting take on the Battle Royale-type games although it's having a delay in the release. The Windows release for people who become "Founders" (their form of giving people Early Access) was due today, instead they're now aiming for November 29th. Talking about the delay, they mentioned how they needed some "more advanced tools" to keep an eye on what's going on along with needing some gameplay adjustments.

Nouveau and NVIDIA News

• Nouveau Developers Begin Reverse-Engineering NVIDIA Turing Driver Support

  The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards are only officially beginning to ship today, but at least one independent Nouveau developer already has his hands on the hardware and beginning to work on the clean-room, driver reverse-engineering process in order to eventually get open-source "Nouveau" driver support working.

• NVIDIA CUDA 10 Officially Released With Turing Support, nvJPEG, CUDA-Vulkan

  Coinciding with the debut of the GeForce RTX 2080 series line-up is now the official release of CUDA 10.0. CUDA 10.0.130 is now official after being announced back at SIGGRAPH. This NVIDIA compute architecture update provides Turing GPU support and its Tensor Cores, NVSwitch Fabric support, nvJPEG as a new library for JPEG processing, various performance tuning for its expansive library set, a new async task-graph programming model, interoperability improvements with Vulkan and D3D12, and new developer tools.

• NVIDIA have released the 410.57 driver as well as a 396.54.06 Vulkan beta driver to help DXVK

  Along with the release of the GeForce RTX 2080 GPU series NVIDIA have put out a new 410.57 driver to support it. Additionally, there's a new Vulkan beta driver which should help DXVK.

• Help Test Intel+Nvidia Hybrid Graphics GDM3 Fixes In Ubuntu 18.04

  Ubuntu 18.04 shipped with two issues for Intel+Nvidia hybrid graphics users: an increase in power consumption when the discrete GPU is off, and the inability to switch between power profiles with a simple logout (a restart is currently required). These issues are caused by changes in logind, Nvidia drivers packaging (which is now more granular), and the migration from LightDM to GDM3, and they were fixed in Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish.

'Stores' and Network Usage Tools for GNU/Linux

• Alternative Linux-centric App Stores to Google Play for Chrome OS

  The native Linux experience on Chrome OS is relatively new in the form of debian Linux and was limited to the extremely unstable canary and dev channel of the operating system up until recently when it made its debut in the beta channel. The container came in the exclusive form of an interaction via the inbuilt terminal after you might have activated the Linux functionality in the settings of your Chrome system. Before its acclaimed popularity, the sub-platform was infamously codenamed Crostini with what is a relatively active subreddit.

• 16 Useful Bandwidth Monitoring Tools to Analyze Network Usage in Linux

  Are you having problems monitoring your Linux network bandwidth usage? Do you need help? It’s important that you are able to visualize what is happening in your network in order to understand and resolve whatever is causing network slowness or simply to keep an eye on your network.

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