Games: BATTLETECH, Tesla vs Lovecraft and More
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The weekend is about to crash into our lives once again, you're sat staring at your screen wondering what to play and we're here to help.
First up, BATTLETECH is having a free weekend so you have around 1 day and 22 hours to download it on Steam and try it out for free. If you decide you like it, there's 40% off the price right now too.
Steam also has a Square Enix sale going on, where you can grab a number of interesting titles for super cheap including Life is Strange, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Rise of the Tomb Raider and more.
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GOG have another good Linux game now available, with Tesla vs Lovecraft from 10tons now up on their DRM-Free digital shelves.
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Planetary Annihilation Inc continue to make big improvements to Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, the massive-scale RTS that has Linux support.
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I was very impressed with Rise of Industry last time I took a look at this strategic tycoon game from Dapper Penguin Studios. They have another big update out along with an announcement about leaving Early Access.
First, to get the biggest news out of the way, it's going to leave Early Access on May 2nd. Just before that, there's going to be another huge update which will add in AI competition.
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Ventilator Shark's great looking parkour platformer, Space Rabbits in Space will be coming to Linux.
I spoke directly to the developer, who (slightly amusingly) said "There will be a Linux version, we just don't have ETA on that yet (2 people, 1 dog, exhausted to heck [we are, the dog is fine])".
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The Talos Principle, Croteam's fantastic first-person puzzle game has a fresh beta available to test with some major changes.
It includes massive changes under the hood, including a much more up to date version of their Serious Engine. This brings with it 64bit by default, OpenGL removed in favour of Vulkan along with "various other optimizations, fixes, and tweaks that will make your gameplay experience better without you knowing why that is".
I did a few benchmarks this morning just to see how it's working now and unsurprisingly the Linux version remains incredibly smooth. With the performance options cranked to Ultra, rendering at 1080p and MSAA x4 on it was hitting an average of 112 FPS.
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10tons, who are well known for their top-down shooters are unleashing their latest title 'Undead Horde' in Early Access on March 6th.
| Linux Foundation, Linux 5.0 and Linux 5.1
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I suspected Linux Foundation went to the dark side when they started strange deals with Microsoft. But I'm pretty sure they went to dark side now.
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With the Linux 5.0 kernel due out within the next week or two, here's a look back at the biggest end-user facing changes for this kernel release that started out as Linux 4.21.
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With the Linux 5.1 kernel cycle soon to kick-off, an early batch of fixes for the AMDGPU DRM driver and other fixes were sent in on Thursday to queue along with all of the new functionality being staged in DRM-Next.
There's a lot of DRM improvements and throughout all the kernel subsystems of new material queuing up for Linux 5.1. On the AMDGPU side there is AMDGPU DC seamless boot bits, PCI Express bandwidth utilization is now exported to user-space, Vega power management updates, DCC support for scanout surfaces, better page-flipping in DC, and various Vega 20 fixes.
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Videos: Manjaro 18.0.3 Cinnamon, Bash Commands and FLOSS Weekly With ClearlyDefined
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In this video, we look at Manjaro 18.0.3 Cinnamon.
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We chill and look at some cool commands for the BASH terminal and scripts.
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Carol Smith is the program manager for ClearlyDefined, a project under the Open Source Initiative. ClearlyDefined is an open source project to crowd-source the gathering, curation, and upstreaming of licensing and security (and more) data about free and open source projects.
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