Wube Software's hit automation and building game Factorio has just received its Space Age expansion, bringing new planets to expand on, space platforms for mining asteroids, and more.
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Choosing between Windows 11 and Ubuntu can get tricky if you play games and work on your PC at the same time. Data from testing reveals neither is a clear-cut winner, at least when you have Nvidia.
In case you have been wondering which operating system, Windows 11 or Ubuntu Linux,As you should be running in 2023 for gaming on a PC with AMD Radeon graphics, a new test sheds light on it.
Valve has made available several drivers aimed at improving Windows support on its brand-new handheld, the Steam Deck. GPU, WiFi, and Blueooth drivers are the ones available, with audio coming soon.
Valve has opened a new web page to check what games from your Steam library are currently Verified, Playable, and Unsupported on the Steam Deck. New games are being added every day.
The Steam Deck, Valve's upcoming handheld gaming computer, is almost ready for primetime. After the delay last year, the device now has a February 25 release date for the first reservation batch.
Linux gamers do much more effective bug reporting for games than their Windows counterparts, according to game dev Kodera Software. The number of bugs as well the quality of reporting are superior.
The upcoming Steam Deck handheld of Valve won't be leaving behind popular multiplayer games, as Easy Anti-Cheat is now natively supported on Linux, macOS as well as Proton, and Wine.
The latest Steam Client Beta update adds support for Mesa's new single-file shader cache format on Linux. The new caching system should lower the disk space used and improve frametime performance.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive could soon be getting a healthy rise in performance on Linux running OpenGL as GL threading has been enabled via a patch on the next Mesa RadeonSI driver update.
Thanks to this update to DRIconf, Radeon and Intel Vulkan drivers can now access game engine details which should allow for easier workarounds in case of a common game engine defect.
The studio behind the popular survival game Rust, Facepunch Studios, has announced that it is removing the title's Linux client altogether. Anyone who's played this version can get a refund.
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