Leftovers: Gaming
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Open-Source Doom 3 Spin Updated With Many New Features
While many initially looked at ioDoom3 as the exciting fork of id Software's id Tech 4 / Doom 3 source-code as it was done by some of the same folks as ioquake3, there sadly hasn't been much to report on in recent times for the project. Fortunately, the independent "dhewm3" is making strides as an open-source Doom 3 project.
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Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide Expansion Released & Thoughts From A Civ Addict
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Unity To Abandon Their Web Player In Favor Of WebGL
For games developed in Unity and designed to be run from the web-browser, Unity has offered a Web Player plug-in for browsers. However, with Chrome dropping NPAPI support and other browsers changing their plug-in handling, Unity is dropping that plug-in to instead just use open web APIs and using WebGL for graphics. Unity has already supported WebGL but now it's about the death of their Web Player.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 Linux or Mac Ports Uncertain
While Divinity: Original Sin 2 is pretty much confirmed for Microsoft Windows following its successful Kickstarter campaign, the same cannot be said for the Linux or Mac version of the game.
The independent Larian Studios wants to remain publisher-free, and collected little over $2 million with its Kickstarter fund campaign. However, despite expectations of a Linux/Mac port for the game, the developers have pretty clearly stated that they cannot afford to port the game on other platforms at the time of release.
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Virtual Programming Is Porting Four More Titles To Linux
Virtual Programming has published their latest in-development titles for Mac and Linux, which includes the Overlord and Saints Row games making it over from Windows.
While many Linux gamers particularly don't like Virtual Programming Linux game ports due to their use of the eON wrapper layer, which started out as a train wreck but has improved for recent games like DiRT Showdown, they're bringing more games over to Linux.
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SteamOS 2.0, emulators on Raspberry Pi, and more open gaming news
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Unigine 2.0 Officially Released With Big Improvements For This Linux-Friendly Engine
While the Unigine engine isn't used by too many games compared to its presence in simulation and other industries, it remains one of my favorite engines for its top-notch Linux support over the years, beautiful OpenGL capabilities, and powering the most demanding Linux graphics tech demos. Today Unigine Corp is excited to announce the release of Unigine 2.0.
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Valve Is Trolling Us With A New Half-Life 3 Leak
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HL3 References In Dota 2 Are Raising Eyebrows
SteamDB has revealed some new references to Half-Life 3 content within today's Dota 2 game update.
Most evident is "hl3.txt", which is a file defining some game assets while there are also some other new game definition files. Some of the definitions do differ with Source 2 and there's also some VR-related definitions.
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