Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project

Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project

Mesa is a long-running project that started life as an open-source driver, bringing the OpenGL graphics API to a host of different platforms. Today, developers from AMD, Google, Intel, and others all take part. One of the most well-known Mesa drivers is RADV: A Vulkan-based driver specifically for AMD’s GPUs running on a Linux operating…

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Poor Monster Hunter Wilds gets politely thrown under the bus as Capcom promises Resident Evil Requiem won’t run as badly

You shouldn’t personify or feel pity for games—developers? Certainly, they’re people. But the game itself is not alive, and it doesn’t have feelings, and any sentimentality or nostalgia you feel for it is a mere trick of the light. Unfortunately, I am not taking my own advice, because Monster Hunter Wilds is getting so thoroughly…

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New Steam update adds new ‘customise’ tab your games—letting you finally organise things by release date, or just look at Big Naturals Withers every time you open Baldur’s Gate 3

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been the kind of person to get organised—that’s partially because I have a pesky disorder that gets in the way of such things, but it’s also just a personality flaw. I don’t do home decoration, and all my important paperwork sits in a loose jumble in a draw…

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Guide: Every Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Release

All confirmed Switch 2 Game-Key Card games. For Switch 2, Nintendo has introduced a different type of physical release: Game-Key Cards. They’ve proven controversial amongst gamers as they contain no actual game data. Instead, once the game is downloaded, they function as a key that must be inserted into your Switch 2 to access the…

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Celeste developer starts 2025 with a ‘huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure’ as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade

Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the “difficult decision” to cancel its follow-up project Earthblade, citing long term creative difficulties compounded by a conflict within the studio regarding the rights to Celeste. In a blog post published on the Extremely Ok Games website, studio director Maddy Thorson wrote, “We are opening the year with…

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