Games: Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, Horror Story: Hallowseed, and More

  

• Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - Fates Divided announced, Linux support "shortly after Windows" | GamingOnLinux

  Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - Fates Divided was just announced by Creative Assembly and SEGA for release on March 11, and porting studio Feral Interactive confirmed it for Linux "shortly after Windows". Taking place starting at 200 CE, this Chapter Pack for Three Kingdoms sees two childhood friends, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, go head to head as they battle against each other's growing ambition. With a childhood bond about to break, it can only mean one thing - Total War.

   

• Horror Story: Hallowseed is a psychological horror game coming to Linux this Summer | GamingOnLinux

  Available currently in Early Access for Windows, developer Jeff Winner and publisher 1C Entertainment make it clear that Horror Story: Hallowseed is going to be supported on Linux and macOS too. It's been on Steam in Early Access since July 2020, with 1C Entertainment taking it on as publisher as of this month now that it's approaching the full release. Horror Story: Hallowseed is a single-player story-driven psychological horror game that takes place in a fictional location, forgotten by time, all wrapped in a mysterious demonic terror. Three friends were camping in the woods, when an obscure event takes them away, causing two of them to disappear. Left alone in an unknown place, Michael seeks answers about what happened, while trying to find his friends.

• Get some great games for the weekend in these new bundles

  As usual, we will highlight those in bold text that have Linux builds.

Top 10 Linux Distros for Gaming

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GNU Poke Reaches 1.0

• Release notes for poke 1.0

  I am happy to announce the first release of GNU poke, version 1.0.
  
  The tarball poke-1.0.tar.gz is now available at
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-1.0.tar.gz.
  
    GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive,
    extensible editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing basic
    entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged
    procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe
    data structures and to operate on them.
  
  This release is the product of 3 years of work resulting in 4126
  commits, made by 19 contributors.
  
  The program is far from being perfect and there are known bugs and
  limitations in place.  We also have lots of awesome ideas still to be
  implemented, extensions we want to add, pickles for many data formats
  to write, documentation to improve, and lots of work in
  progress... the GUI, the machine-interface... working in poke is so
  fun that it is difficult to stop :'D
  
  But it is time to start the releasing cycles so everyone can benefit
  from poke, which is already immensely useful for many activities like
  systems programming, testing of software, design and documentation of
  file formats and protocols, reverse engineering, and much more.
  Releasing often will hopefully also bring in more developers to our
  little but enthusiastic community... there is so much to do!
  
  In any case, we wish you have fun with poke and that you find it
  useful.
  
  Please send us comments, suggestions, bug reports, *patches*,
  questions, complaints, bitcoins, or whatever, to poke-devel@gnu.org.
  
  Many of the poke developers and users populate the #poke IRC channel
  at irc.freenode.net, and you are more than welcome to join us there
  and say hello.
  
  Now it is time to mention the names of all the people who have
  contributed with code and/or documentation to this release.  In
  certain but no significant order they are:
  
     John Darrington
     Tim Rühsen
     Luca Saiu
     Bruno Haible
     Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor
     Eric Blake
     Egeyar Bagcioglu
     Kostas Chasialis
     Darshit Shah
     Dan Čermák
     David Faust
     Carlo Caione
     Henner Zeller
     Aurelien Aptel
     Indu Bhagat
     Darkstar
     Michael Drüing
     Pierre-Evariste Dagand
  
  My gratitude to you all!  It is a real pleasure to hack with you.
  
  Finally, as a personal note, I would like to dedicate this release to
  my father Eduardo.  For this is also your work in a sense, and I love
  you very much.
  
  And this is all for now.
  Happy poking!
  

• GNU poke 1.0 released

  Version 1.0 of GNU poke is out. "GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them."

• GNU poke 1.0 released

• GNU Poke 1.0 Released For Poking At Binary Data

  The newest GNU project seeing its first release is GNU Poke, which is being inaugurated at v1.0 after being in development for the past three years. GNU Poke 1.0 is an interactive editor for binary data that beyond basic editing capabilities has an integrated, interactive programming language for describing data structures and operating on them. There is a GUI in the works for Poke along with many other features planned but after the initial three years of development they feel it's now in good enough shape for declaring a 1.0 release.

5.12 Kernel: Data Loss Risk, Adreno, and Firmware Performance Data

• Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels - Phoronix

  As a quick PSA for those that may be eager to test out early Git builds of the Linux 5.12 kernel, I've been hitting a very nasty issue on multiple systems leading to corruption / data loss.

• More Open-Source Adreno 500 Series Support, A6xx Speedbin Sent In For Linux 5.12 - Phoronix

  Last week the main set of DRM subsystem updates were sent in for the Linux 5.12 merge window. That pull included exciting additions like Radeon RX 6000 series OverDrive and Intel Xe VRR. Mistakenly left out of that pull request last week were the open-source Qualcomm Adreno driver improvements for the "MSM" kernel driver while now that code has landed. As previously noted, there are some noteworthy Adreno improvements this cycle. The driver now has support for the Adreno 508 / 509 / 512 GPUs with the Adreno 508 being found in the Snapdragon 630, the 509 in the Snapdragon 636, and the 512 is in the Snapdragon 660.

• Linux 5.12 To Expose Firmware Performance Data - Phoronix

  Last week saw the main set of ACPI and power management updates for Linux 5.12 while for the second week of the merge window has been the follow-up work with Intel Simple Firmware Interface removal and also an additional ACPI update. Noteworthy with yesterday's ACPI pull is support for parsing of the ACPI Firmware Performance Data Table (FPDT) and now exposing that under sysfs. The ACPI FPDT tables provide platform initialization platform records with data pertaining to the boot process. Via the Firmware Performance Data Table it's possible to track the performance of each UEFI phase - helpful in measuring hardware/software changes, etc.