Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros

The European Commission (EC) has opened a ‘call for evidence‘ (via LWN.net) to inform the “European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy.” In other words, it’s looking for experts and relevant parties to help it figure out how to push towards open source software. This has the SteamOS-loving and Linux-pining part of myself getting all excitable on…

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Larian’s given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it’s ‘alligator’

Unsurprisingly, Larian Studios isn’t revealing much about Divinity‘s story, characters, and world, not least because it’s likely to change a lot from now until its eventual launch. Baldur’s Gate 3 made significant changes to characters and story arcs from its early access launch, so it’s a fool’s errand to even attempt to pin anything down…

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‘I wish Wyll had gotten more content’ says the Baldur’s Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads ‘might have been a mistake in hindsight’

Baldur’s Gate 3, you may have heard, was quite a good videogame. Good enough to make PCG history, even. But not every part of it shines equally. Wyll, the origin character and (if you’re not playing as him) party member, is notoriously a little underbaked. He’s so straightforwardly good as to be, well, maybe a…

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Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it’s a ‘big year for games ending in 6’ ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: ‘I’m practically living off hopium and copium at this point’

There’s an Xbox Direct showcase happening on January 22, and Microsoft has teased three games that will appear: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation. In response to a post on X about said showcase, UsagiMoonlight wrote,” More excited for Horizon 6 than GTA 6 atm,” to which Microsoft responded, “Big year for games…

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Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it’s a ‘big year for games ending in 6’ ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: ‘I’m practically living off hopium and copium at this point’

There’s an Xbox Direct showcase happening on January 22, and Microsoft has teased three games that will appear: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation. In response to a post on X about said showcase, UsagiMoonlight wrote,” More excited for Horizon 6 than GTA 6 atm,” to which Microsoft responded, “Big year for games…

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Gigabyte’s new OLED gaming monitor debuts ‘HyperNits’ brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?

Along with just about every other monitor brand on planet earth, Gigabyte has unleashed a load of new OLED gaming displays at CES 2026. Question is, how to stand out from all that competition? Gigabyte’s answer, it seems, is “HyperNits.” Yup, kiss goodbye to plain old regular nits. Say hello to HyperNits. Well, maybe. According…

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Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation ‘only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,’ reckons KCD2’s exec producer, and probably didn’t impact the games’ reception

Kingdom Come: Deliverance, as a series, is no stranger to controversy. The first came in for criticism from progressive voices over representation and its depiction of the conflict between the Czech protagonists and their Cuman enemies, while the second game managed to upset the opposite end of the political spectrum by featuring gay romance and…

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AMD leaves the door open to an official ‘beta’ version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs

Call them FSR 4, FSR Redstone, FSR Whatever, AMD’s latest generation of AI-enhanced upscaling technologies are definitely a major step forward. Which makes it a great pity that they’re not available for older generations of AMD GPUs, like RDNA 3. The just possibly good news is that, in a new interview, AMD has left the…

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