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Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm
Has the Linux revolution finally begun?
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Marathon's upcoming balance patches take aim at godlike knives, strong snipers and ubiquitous shields, while adding some SECRET items
Following the murder of a speedy movement exploit, Marathon developers Bungie have a bunch of other weapons in the arsenal of the uber-powerful runner in their sights. Snipers, knives, and bubble shields are all on the tone down list for the extraction shooter's upcoming patches. Read more
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Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air
MacBook in the mud.
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Original Resident Evil trilogy with GOG's fresh coat of paint is finally on Steam, but you will have to put up with Enigma DRM
Wake up, the Residents are Evil again. Well, what I mean to say is that the oldest Evil Residents, the most classic of Resident Evils, have now hit Steam in the nicely revamped form they took on when GOG brought them back to PC a couple of years ago. Yep, the versions of Resis 1, 2, and 3 that've just hit Valve's storefront include GOG's handy tweaks to help them run in all singing and all dancing fashion on modern hardware. Read more
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The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage
S&box is an upcoming open source game development platform, built using a modified Source 2 engine. Out on 28th April, it's the work of the very same Garry Newman behind the legendary Garry's Mod, who's been working on a spiritual successor at his company Facepunch Studios (also the developers of Rust, and originally known as Team Garry) since 2015. Inasmuch as I am qualified to judge, S&box sounds like a robust tool – it's got features and systems for visual scripting, open world terrain
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Here's your chance to get Marathon for just $1 and score one of my favorite FPS games in recent years for a tiny price
Intense yet consistently fun, Marathon is one of my favorite games at the moment, and you could grab Bungieâs latest game for just a buck if youâre lucky.
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Breath of Fire IV plus classic Resident Evil 1-3 from GOG arrive on Steam - but with DRM
With a little help from GOG, some more classic games have arrived on Steam for those of you who want more retro gaming goodies.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux
Mesa 26.0.4 is out now as the latest bug-fix release for the open source graphics drivers, as work continues on Mesa 26.1.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Steam store home page gets a refresh in Beta, plus another Linux SteamRT3 Beta fix
Valve have pushed out an overhauled Steam store home page in the latest Steam Client Beta, along with another needed fix for the Linux SteamRT3 Beta.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
After rubbing away the sleep from my eyes in disbelief, Valve have updated the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2026 showing explosive Linux growth.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip
This would be like us saying 'Remember the good old days of, uh, 2016?'
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Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way
Is this it, chat?
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Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool's Day by rolling out a Steam storefront 'refresh' that makes it look much nicer
They're not joking (and neither am I).
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Diablo 4's 'April Fowl's Day' joke is a big chicken boss who drops a cluckton of unique loot, like the 'Cluckonomicon' and the 'Eggcecutioner'
Working on my poultry punisher build right now.
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The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation
The hard-hitting reporting no other gaming website would dare to publish.
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US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision
Nintendo has plenty of space to respond, however.
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Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28
Still waiting for a price, but at least we've got a date.
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Black Ops 7's April Fools' joke is very much real: the smallest Call of Duty map in history
Get ready (to die a lot) with me.
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NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)
NVIDIA just announced something quite interesting, in the form of an upcoming update for their GPU drivers for Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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April Fool's Day is upon us, and you know what that means: Bubsy feet pics
A round-up of best gaming-related April Fool's Day jokes we could find.
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Grab some great strategy games in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle
Another nice set of games available here in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle, giving you multiple games together for cheaps.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
Portal 2 project lead Josh Weier says Newell didn't want to impose his ideas on designers, but being one of them wasn't an option.