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Ready for the Steam Frame, Khronos Group announced a new OpenXR "Best Practices Validation Layer"

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:48:37 +0000

The Khronos Group, the stewards of various open protocols like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more just revealed a new tool for XR (VR / AR) developers.

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Sentry gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:35:55 +0000

Sentry is a toolkit for game devs to monitor errors, performance and more and now it should work a lot better on Linux / SteamOS with Wine / Proton.

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The Godot Engine 2025 showreel is out

Liam Dawe — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:54:57 +0000

Showing off a bunch of what's capable with the free and open source game engine Godot, the 2025 showreel has been released.

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Unity devs are scrambling to update their games due to a recent security issue

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:41:15 +0000

The Unity team recently revealed a security issue in their game engine, with lots of developers scrambling to update their games.

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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) now available for all developers with FidelityFX SDK 2.0

Liam Dawe — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:23:20 +0000

AMD have finally released FidelityFX SDK 2.0, which includes support for FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), so now all developers can use it.

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JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine

Liam Dawe — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:25:51 +0000

Godot Foundation announced that JetBrains have become a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine development, helping push this cross-platform open source game engine.

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Old School Rally gets hit with a DMCA and taken down from Steam

Liam Dawe — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:21:14 +0000

Showing just how tough game dev can be for smaller teams and solo devs, Old School Rally has been hit with a DMCA and the Steam store page is gone.

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Blender 4.5 LTS arrives with Vulkan fully supported and lots of performance improvements

Liam Dawe — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:04:11 +0000

A big day in Blender land with the arrival of Blender 4.5 LTS, finally bringing Vulkan up to full supported status with it matching OpenGL.

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Vulkan API developers try to address some developer frustrations with a new extension

Liam Dawe — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:12:35 +0000

Vulkan has been out for around 9 years now, and The Khronos Group continue tweaking it for developers to remove frustrations.

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Godot 4.5 beta 1 brings Wayland improvements, shader baking, rendering improvements

Liam Dawe — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:52:51 +0000

Godot 4.5 is going to be an excellent release of the free, open source and cross-platform game engine with a first Beta needing testing.

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ACTION GAME MAKER confirm plans for Linux support for the editor and game exports

Liam Dawe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:23:24 +0000

ACTION GAME MAKER is the brand new release from Gotcha Gotcha Games, who are known for the RPG Maker series and it's good news for Linux fans.

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Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.6.2 released

Liam Dawe — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:08:41 +0000

The latest release of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer has been released, with version 2.6.2 bringing assorted improvements.

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Khronos Group announce the Vulkan Video Decode VP9 Extension

Liam Dawe — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:58:01 +0000

Another expansion of the Vulkan graphics API has arrived with the Vulkan Video Decode VP9 Extension.

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ACTION GAME MAKER devs exploring Linux support for the editor and exports

Liam Dawe — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:21:30 +0000

ACTION GAME MAKER, the upcoming game making toolkit from Gotcha Gotcha Games (RPG Maker series) are exploring Linux support now.

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Ubisoft open sourced Chroma, their colourblind simulation tool

Liam Dawe — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:42:28 +0000

Wonderful to see! Ubisoft announced yesterday that they've open sourced their colourblind simulation tool Chroma (UbiChroma as it's called on GitHub), after several years of internal use and development.

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Discord wants developers to stick it inside their games with a new SDK

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:54:14 +0000

One of the great things about modern online gaming is how (usually) easy it is to link up with friends. You have your friends list on Steam, GOG, Epic and others but what about Discord? They want a bigger piece of the pie now.

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Amazon GameLift Streams allows devs to run their own streaming platform - supports Linux and Proton runtimes

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:50:28 +0000

Amazon recently announced their new GameLift Streams service, allowing game developers to spin up their own game streaming solutions.

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Godot Engine 4.4 is out now with Jolt Physics, Ubershaders, Interactive in-game editing

Liam Dawe — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:22:00 +0000

Godot Engine 4.4 has been released bringing with it a plethora of advancements for game devs, so it might be time to give it another look.

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Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages

Liam Dawe — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:23:36 +0000

AI this, AI that - you can't go anywhere without something trying to force AI on you. Usually a company trying to get you to buy into what they've wasted billions on. So indie devs have begun fighting back with their No Gen AI Seal.

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The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:00:08 +0000

It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).

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Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

Liam Dawe — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:51:49 +0000

Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.

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Epic Games devs talk about solutions to the Unreal Engine stuttering issues in games

Liam Dawe — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:11:58 +0000

If you've played a game using Unreal Engine, or for that matter any modern game engine, you've likely encountered various forms of stuttering. One major issue is shader stuttering, as games build up that cache and it seems Epic Games have a solution for Unreal Engine.

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GDC 2025 survey shows PC game development growing with lots interested in Valve's Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:21:13 +0000

The latest Game Developers Conference (GDC) survey has been released, and it gives a rather glowing overview of how great things are for PC gamers with lots of developers working on games.

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SDL 3 officially released for game devs plus an SDL 2 to SDL 3 compatibility layer

Liam Dawe — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:35:43 +0000

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a popular free and open source library for developers that handles audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick and graphics with SDL 3 now available. Plus a new SDL 2 to SDL 3 compatibility layer.

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Can 2025 please be the year more games add Text and UI Scaling

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:09:54 +0000

I get it, you worked hard for hours and days and weeks on your incredibly cool-looking interface for your game. You made it so all the text perfectly lines up everywhere and picked a slick looking font, but it's all too darn small.

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Godot Engine's 2024 Showreel shows a lot of fun stuff for the open source game engine

Liam Dawe — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:30:49 +0000

The cross-platform free and open source Godot Engine has another showreel up, giving you a nice look at what some developers have been making with it.

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EA pledge another 23 accessibility patents for public royalty-free use

Liam Dawe — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:39:04 +0000

EA did another actually genuinely great thing here. They've expanded their previous patent pledge for game developers to use without problems.

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Vulkan API 1.4 released with new required extensions, better 8K rendering

Liam Dawe — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:32:27 +0000

The Khronos Group have today announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 API specification, with various changes and improvements for game and application developers.

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Khronos Group takes over cross-platform Slang shading language from NVIDIA

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:33:29 +0000

Interesting industry news here for you, especially for developers. The Khronos Group announced they've launched the Slang Initiative, taking over the Slang shading language supported by NVIDIA since 2017.

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Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing

Liam Dawe — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:37:29 +0000

An exciting new feature for game developers has begun to land in the free and open source Godot Engine, with the start of interactive in-game editing.

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s&box the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod now has a Steam page up

Liam Dawe — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:46:21 +0000

Making it easier to follow along and get notified when it's available, s&box the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod now has a Steam page up.

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Steam gets new tools for game devs to offer players version switching in-game

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:58:32 +0000

Valve announced something that I'm sure a lot of game developers and players will appreciate: new APIs to allow developers to have version switching directly in their games!

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SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview released

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:32:18 +0000

One missed in the inbox of no return from last week. The next-generation SDL 3 is closing in on a proper stable release now with the SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview now available for game developers.

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From November 15, all Steam games sold in Germany will need an Age Rating

Liam Dawe — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:13:31 +0000

Earlier in 2024, Valve announced that games being sold in Germany were going to require an Age Rating to continue to be sold, and now there's a deadline.

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Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches

Liam Dawe — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:05:00 +0000

Epic Games are once again trying to entice more game developers to not only ship same-day on the Epic Games Store, but to use Unreal Engine too.

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Microsoft embraces more open standards with DirectX 12 adopting SPIR-V

Liam Dawe — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:45:33 +0000

Quite a big surprise, but truly a welcome one, and a great one for game developers. Microsoft are moving more towards open standards by adopting SPIR-V for DirectX.

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Frame of Mind developer ended up coding the game on Steam Deck for a year

Liam Dawe — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 10:05:44 +0000

Here's a fun one for you. What do you do when you're a game developer and your laptop dies? Use your Steam Deck to continue developing of course.

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Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee

Liam Dawe — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:43:47 +0000

After a complete disaster a while ago that saw many developers jump-ship, and cause a huge PR problem, Unity have now cancelled the Runtime Fee.

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Godot Engine 4.3 is out now with huge new features and a fancy release page

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:54:55 +0000

Looks like the Godot team went all-out for the Godot Engine 4.3 release, bringing this royalty-free open source game engine into a bright future.

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Second Dinner (MARVEL SNAP) now investing in W4 Games for Godot Engine

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:30:41 +0000

Clearly, Godot Engine is going places, with more and more games using this cross-platform free and open source game engine that doesn't require royalty payments and now they've pulled in Second Dinner who developed MARVEL SNAP.

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FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux thanks to DXVK

Liam Dawe — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:09:56 +0000

Developer Ethan Lee yesterday announced the release of FNA 24.08, bringing with it preparation for the upcoming release of SDL 3 and a fun addition of Direct3D 11 support on Linux thanks to DXVK.

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Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art tool v1.0 is out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:38:37 +0000

I love good pixel art, and so it's nice to see more tools becoming available for game developers, especially when they're open source too. Pixelorama version 1.0 is out now after 5 years in development.

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Developing a Video Game with Unreal Engine 5 on Linux

Vasilis — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:10:26 +0000

In November 2022, we started a side project in my company, a video game called Cuprum 2929. Because I love Linux (being a full user since 2009) and I'm the owner of the company, I made the bold decision to fully develop it on Linux.

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RPG Maker / Pixel Game Maker devs move to Godot for Action Game Maker

Liam Dawe — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:23:56 +0000

Gotcha Gotcha Games known for the RPG Maker series and Pixel Game Maker have announced Action Game Maker and it's being made with the open source Godot Engine.

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Popular multiplayer code editor Zed gets a Linux release

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:44:01 +0000

A little break in the gaming news for a moment to mention that Zed, a "high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter", now has a Linux version available.

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Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

Liam Dawe — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:50:07 +0000

Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

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SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

nwildner — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:40:54 +0000

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

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SDL 3 has a first preview release out with HDR and Vulkan for the 2D rendering API

Liam Dawe — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:09:28 +0000

Fun times ahead for game developers, as the very popular SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has a preview of the upcoming SDL 3 now available for feedback and testing.

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AMD FSR 3.1 announced with Vulkan support, upscaling quality improvements

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:46:21 +0000

During GDC, AMD announced the latest big upgrade to come for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution with version 3.1 planned to launch in Q2 2024.

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The Mirror aims to be a Roblox & UEFN alternative and now it's open source

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:33:23 +0000

Roblox and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite sure are popular, but you know what would be better? An open source project, where creators can actually own what they make rather than being attached to Roblox and Fortnite. The Mirror wants to change that.

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