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Using Linux on the GPD Win 2 (so far)
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 13th of February 2018 02:05:45 AM Filed under

Since Steam already works (with full game controller support) on Windows 10, I didn’t bother trying to install Steam or any heavier-duty games in Linux.
Overall I’d say that for now Linux on the GPD Win 2 is a bit of a mixed bag, at least for the prototype I’m testing. It’s usable, but I can’t think of a lot of reasons why you would really choose it over Windows 10 on this particular device… unless you either really hate Windows or really know what you’re doing and think you might be able to get the non-working hardware to function properly.
That said, there is a way to have the best of both worlds. The GPD Win 10 ships with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update pre-installed, which means you can use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to install Ubuntu or OpenSUSE from the Windows Store.
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Games Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 12th of February 2018 06:39:14 PM Filed under
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Dawn of War III likely to get no more major updates as it hasn't sold well
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Sudden Strike 4 updated again with full camera rotation, increased zoom and more
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GOG now has the creepy point & click puzzle adventure Goetia
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Asteroid belt trucking in open world action adventure game 'Redshift 7'
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Can't Drive This, the racer where the other player builds the track is rough, but shows promise
It's been a while since Can't Drive This [Steam] gained Linux support, so I finally set aside some time to take a proper look. An amusing idea, where one player races and the other builds the track as you go.
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Dead Ground mashes together Tower Defense and other games to make something fresh
If you've wanted to try a Tower Defense game that mixes in Action and Survival elements, you're in luck. Dead Ground [Steam] has elements of them all.
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Linux On Nintendo Switch? Hackers Show That It’s Possible
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 12th of February 2018 10:48:01 AM Filed under

Every popular hardware in today’s times that tries to bind users to a particular software or operating system, becomes a target of hackers. They make continuous attempts to find ways to exploit the security measures. Along the similar lines, hacker group Fail0verflow has claimed to have found a Nintendo Switch hack.
The group has posted the picture of Switch booting a Debian GNU/Linux installation. The picture also shows a serial adapter connected to one Joy-Con docks. Notably, Fail0verflow is the same group that hacked Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3.
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The best Linux distro for gaming in 2018
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 12th of February 2018 01:23:06 AM Filed under

A Linux gaming distro, as the name suggests, is tailored for avid gamers. As such it usually comes bundled with games to play, as well as drivers for graphics cards, games controllers and so forth.
There aren't many Linux distros specifically made for gaming. This isn't because Linux users dislike games, but rather it’s due to the fact that most modern Linux distros support virtually every type of recent graphics card anyway. As such, any regular Linux distro can easily be turned into a ‘game station’.
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Razer doesn’t care about Linux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 12th of February 2018 12:45:14 AM Filed under

Razer is a vendor that makes high-end gaming hardware, including laptops, keyboards and mice. I opened a ticket with Razor a few days ago asking them if they wanted to support the LVFS project by uploading firmware and sharing the firmware update protocol used. I offered to upstream any example code they could share under a free license, or to write the code from scratch given enough specifications to do so. This is something I’ve done for other vendors, and doesn’t take long as most vendor firmware updaters all do the same kind of thing; there are only so many ways to send a few kb of data to USB devices. The fwupd project provides high-level code for accessing USB devices, so yet-another-update-protocol is no big deal. I explained all about the LVFS, and the benefits it provided to a userbase that is normally happy to vote using their wallet to get hardware that’s supported on the OS of their choice.
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Games: Summer Islands, Them's Fightin' Herds, Warbands: Bushido
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 12th of February 2018 12:16:59 AM Filed under
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Summer Islands strategy and simulation game will see Linux support
Summer Islands [Steam, Official Site], a game inspired by the classic Holiday Island is set to release sometime this year and it seems it will have Linux support. When it does go to Steam, it will be an Early Access title with no firmer date currently stated other than "2018".
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Them's Fightin' Herds, a fighting game featuring 4-legged combatants will gallop onto Linux
Here's one I missed a while back. Them's Fightin' Herds [Official Site, Steam, Humble Store], a fighting game inspired by My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will be coming to Linux.
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Rolling dice and killing samurai, thoughts on Warbands: Bushido
Combining tabletop aesthetics and inspirations, this tactics game pits a small band of warriors against challenging odds. I played a fair amount of Warbands: Bushido [Official Site] and have a few thoughts to share.
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Introducing Zero-K, a Real-Time Strategy Game for Linux
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 10th of February 2018 08:49:27 PM Filed under

Zero-K is a game where teams of robots fight for metal, energy and dominance. They use any strategy, tactic or gimmick known to machine. Zero-K is a game for players by players, and it runs natively on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Zero-K runs on the Spring Real Time Strategy Game engine, which is the same engine that powers Evolution RTS and Kernel Panic the game. Many consider Zero-K to be a spiritual successor to Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation. Zero-K also has a large and supportive player and developer community.
When you first open the game, you'll see a panel that shows you what is going on in the Zero-K community.
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Games: Train Station Simulator, Attack of the Earthlings, Steam Audio 2.0 and Nintendo
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 9th of February 2018 06:17:00 PM Filed under
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The Early Access 'Train Station Simulator' now has official Linux support
Train Station Simulator [Steam, Official Site], the Early Access game where you build and manage your own station has now officially added Linux support.
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Attack of the Earthlings is like a reversed XCOM with a little comedy and it's pretty good
Attack of the Earthlings [Steam, Official Site], a new strategy game from Monstrum creator Team Junkfish plays like a reverse XCOM and it's pretty good.
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Steam Audio 2.0 Adds AMD TrueAudio Next Support
Valve has added support for the AMD/GPUOpen TrueAudio Next within the latest beta of SteamAudio 2.0.
Steam Audio as a refresher is Valve's full-featured spatial audio solution designed for VR and gaming audio in general. Steam Audio can be enabled into Unreal Engine 4, Unity, and other game engines with also having a C API. SteamAudio does support Linux.
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Hacker group manages to run Linux on a Nintendo Switch
Hacker group fail0verflow shared a photo of a Nintendo Switch running Debian, a distribution of Linux (via Nintendo Life). The group claims that Nintendo can’t fix the vulnerability with future firmware patches.
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Nintendo Switch Linux hack offers good news for homebrew
For as long as consoles have been around, people have been hacking them. Nintendo in particular has a long and storied history with hackers, especially with its more modern consoles. Healthy homebrew scenes popped up around the Wii, DS, and 3DS, and now that the Switch is on the scene, hackers have turned their attention to it.
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Games: Twine and SugarCube, Unearned Bounty and More
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 9th of February 2018 02:13:16 PM Filed under
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How to use Twine and SugarCube to create interactive adventure games
Storytelling is an innate part of human nature. It's an idle pastime, it's an art form, it's a communication tool, it's a form of therapy and bonding. We all love to tell stories—you're reading one now—and the most powerful technologies we have are generally the things that enable us to express our creative ideas. The open source project Twine is a tool for doing just that.
Twine is an interactive story generator. It uses HTML, CSS, and Javascript to create self-contained adventure games, in the spirit of classics like Zork and Colossal Cave. Since Twine is largely an amalgamation of several open technologies, it is flexible enough to do a lot of multimedia tricks, rendering games a lot more like HyperCard than you might normally expect from HTML.
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Unearned Bounty, a free-for-all multiplayer naval combat game releases next week
On February 15th, Unearned Bounty [Steam] a free-for-all multiplayer naval combat game will release on Steam with Linux support, it will also be free.
While the game is planned to be free, I've read that the only items you will be able to purchase are entirely cosmetic, so winning will still be down to your skill.
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Noir-styled point and click 'Bear With Me' now has a Collector's Edition, first episode goes free
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The excellent 'Oxygen Not Included' Occupational Upgrade is now out
Oxygen Not Included [Steam] is such an addictive game it's quite crazy and the Occupational Upgrade seems to be pretty good.
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Nintendo Switch Hacked to Run Linux
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 9th of February 2018 01:58:03 PM Filed under

Hacking group fail0verflow has discovered a vulnerability in Nintendo Switch that allows the installation of Linux, basically opening the door to something that the parent company hoped it’d never come true: pirated games.
In a post on Twitter earlier this week, fail0verflow revealed that Nintendo Switch comes with a bug that cannot be fixed with firmware updates and which can be abused at any moment to install Linux.
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