Hot on the heels of Nvidia’s new GTX 780, the new top-of-the-line for consumer video cards, Nvidia did not spare 24 hours before releasing version 319.23 of their Linux driver. What’s new in this release? Well, a whole lot of everything, including support for the GTX 780 itself! Here is a brief overview of the [...]
World of Goo Developer Debuts Little Inferno For Linux
Burning stuffed penguins in Linux Developer of the mega-successful casual strategy gem World of Goo is back, and this time they’ve brought Linux along for the first ride! Tomorrow Corporation‘s much anticipated, already award-winning indie game Little Inferno is now available in the Humble Store, and we can’t wait to play it! So, what’s this [...]
BeagleSNES: Now You Can Build Your Own Embedded SNES
There is no denying that Raspberry Pi is at the top of the heap when it comes to mind-share — and profit-share — of small computers. The Raspberry Pi has revolutionized not only the way we think about small computers, but has also given us a glimpse into a future of nearly disposable, single-duty, utilitarian [...]
Tennis Elbow 2013 Now Available For Linux
Linux? Chances are you’ve never suffered from Tennis Elbow… If you’ve ever woken up in the morning with a hankering for a Tennis simulation on Linux, you’ve certainly been disappointed each time. Until now, the only simulation we’ve ever heard of — and the only one Google has ever heard of — is Free Tennis. [...]
Gold Farmers May Face Heavier Treasury Scrutiny Under New FinCEN Guidance
On March 18, FinCEN – the financial crimes enforcement arm of the United States Treasury – released guidance regarding the use of BitCoin and other virtual currencies that are exchanged for actual cash. This ruling could have meaning, however, for “gold farmers” as well. Gold farmers, or businesses that deal in the buying, selling and [...]
Closed-source Linux Tycoon Now Available For DOS
From a cube-shaped planet far from earth… From the deepest darkest corner of the deepest darkest dungeon of Bizarro World, Bryan Lunduke releases Linux Tycoon, his closed-source game about an open source operating system for a closed source operating system no one uses. That’s right, you thought today’s earlier headlines were a pump-fake-pass for April [...]
Kerbal Space Program Gets Native Linux Version
I don’t play many PC games, in fact, I only play one: Kerbal Space Program (KSP). KSP is a spaceflight game in which you personally design and build every craft you launch, with the goal (such as it is) to explore the solar system. If you can dream it up, you can build it. Not [...]
“Hacking the Xbox” Released as Free eBook in Honor of Aaron Swartz
Well known hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang has announced via a post on the website for “No Starch Press” that he has decided to release his infamous work “Hacking the Xbox” as a free eBook in honor of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Honoring Aaron Aaron’s shocking suicide in January of this year, widely believed to be [...]
A New Way to Play: MG Handheld Review
We first told you about the MG back in September of 2012, when it was in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign attempting to raise a staggering $950,000. Perhaps they were inspired by the historic success of the OUYA just a few weeks prior, hoping to repeat that system’s incredible funding level on the same $950,000 [...]
Improve Linux Gaming Performance With FSGamer
Gaming on Linux Ever since the advent of Steam for Linux, performance issues have miffed gamers; especially those who are using Ubuntu’s Unity and are forced to use Compiz as their display compositor. Those issues have been combated in several ways. Nvidia and AMD have been ‘stepping up to the plate’ so to speak with [...]