Games and DXVK

• The Atari VCS team aren't doing themselves any favours by accusing The Register of being professional trolls

  It seems the Atari VCS team are burning bridges before they're even built, as they accused the well respected tech news site The Register of professional trolling. A user on Facebook sent Atari a link to this article by El Reg that basically savaged the Atari VCS. I'm surprised I missed that article, so I've done a little catching up this morning reading everything through.

• There's a new Linux beta of 'Black Mesa' that fixes it running on Linux, Xen levels nearly finished

  For those who've been wanting to play Black Mesa, the fan-made recreation of Half-Life you're in luck as Crowbar Collective put up a Beta for Linux users. For me, previously, the game just wouldn't launch since one of their recent updates. If you now opt into the "public-beta" on Steam, it should work once more. Really great to see Crowbar Collective get serious about fixing issues in their Linux build!

• Build your base and raid enemies in 'Scrunk' coming to Linux next month, also has a Battle Royale mode

  Scrunk is a game I discovered today that instantly captured my interest for the interesting team-based build and survive mode. Arriving on Steam in Early Access on July 12th with Linux support, it looks like it could be a lot of fun. The main mode has teams build and fortify their base, surviving world-events like blast-zones, mech units and so on.

• Visual novel 'Higurashi When They Cry Hou' part 6 is now out

  Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi recently released as the sixth chapter in the series and they all have Linux support. From what I understand, they're slight remasters over the original versions. They include both English and Japanese text as well as the option to choose the original or the updated character sprites. The series has been popular with both users and critics, to the point that it has both Manga and Anime adaptions. So to have the games on Linux is quite a treat it seems!

• Basemark GPU is a new benchmark tool that supports Linux and many different APIs

  A few days ago, Basemark officially announced and have now released Basemark GPU, their latest benchmarking tool and it has Linux support. Officially, it seems they're only supporting Debian/Ubuntu (see the note at the bottom about that though…).

• Looks like miniLAW: Ministry of Law is heading to Linux, get ready to be an arm of the law

• In Monster Prom I was rejected even after letting a princess ride me

  Monster Prom is a game I honestly completely ignored when it released. I will hold my hands up to that and tell you how much of an idiot I was for doing so. Note: Key provided for me.

• DXVK 0.60 Released With Support For 64-Bit Floating Point Instructions, Optimizations

  DXVK 0.60 is now available as the newest feature release for this translation layer that allows Direct3D 11 games running on Wine to be mapped to Vulkan rather than Wine's default OpenGL translation layer. With DXVK 0.60 there are more performance optimizations and other feature additions. New features to DXVK 0.60 are support for 64-bit floating point instructions and improved context flush behavior for games utilizing queues incorrectly. There are also optimizations around Vulkan pipeline barriers and Vulkan descriptor sets, leading to higher GPU throughput and reducing CPU overhead, respectively.

• DXVK for Direct3D 11 over Vulkan in Wine has a new 0.60 release

  Summer heat got you parched? Why not wet your whistle with some Wine as DXVK has a fresh release out today.

Android Leftovers

• The new best web browser for Android

• Android P Will Encourage OEMs to Adopt Stronger Biometric Systems

• Google's AR “Measure” app comes to all ARCore Android phones

• HTC's already having shipping problems with the U12+ [Update]

• Nano Android Wallet Users Advised to Move Funds Due to Security Flaw

• Malicious App Infects 60000 Android Devices – But Still Saves Their Batteries

Ubuntu Is Used All over the World, Reveal Initial Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop Metrics

During the development cycle of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), Canonical announced that there would be an optional personal and system data collection tool implemented in the operating system to help them improve Ubuntu. Later, closer to the final release, it was revealed that the data collection tool was implemented in an all-new Welcome screen displayed only once after the first boot. The data collected by Canonical to improve the Ubuntu Linux operating system contained information about Ubuntu flavor used and version, users' setups, installed software, network connectivity, OEM manufacturer, CPU family, RAM, disk size, screen resolution, GPU vendor and model, as well as users' location based on the options they choose during the installation.

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