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The extraction shooter ARC Raiders is out and appears to work on Linux - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-10-30T11:56:34.000Z

ARC Raiders from Embark Studios has released today and even though it has anti-cheat, it still appears to run just fine on Desktop Linux.

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Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-30T10:54:27.000Z

Amazon have cancelled their second attempt at a Lord Of The Rings MMO as part of recent mass layoffs, according to a now-former senior gameplay engineer at Amazon Games.

OpenRazer expands Razer device support with new hardware for Linux users - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-10-30T10:34:44.000Z

Get your latest Razer devices working nicely with all features on Linux with OpenRazer, a new release has expanded the supported devices list.

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Morrowind in Elden Ring mod shows off questing and criminal scumming, and there's only one thing its creator is worried about - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-30T10:29:34.000Z

You can now retrieve Fargoth's ring and get in hot water for not-so-sneakily pilfering someone's sujamma in a mod which is aiming to port Morrowind into Elden Ring. This and more is shown off in the first update video the modder leading the charge has shared since first unveiling their impressive undertaking.

That initial reveal was about a month ago, when modder AnotherPlus lifted the Vvardenveil on the fact they'd managed to transfer Morrowind's landscape across into the FromSoft game. While there are still plenty of placeholders and bits in need of work, they and their team look to be making great progress thus far.

Resident Evil HD REMASTER and Resident Evil 0 now on GOG and in the Preservation Program - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-10-30T10:25:56.000Z

The GOG Preservation Program expands once more and just in time for Halloween GOG now has Resident Evil HD REMASTER and Resident Evil 0.

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VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully cracked platformer about eggs - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-30T09:57:30.000Z

Once upon a time, the great graven cave troll Terry Cavanagh rose from his slumbers, scratched the opals from his beard of woven copper, and said to himself: "Today I will make a 3D egg platform game in which a 3D egg goes platforming, like my hit game VVVVVV, but 3D and with eggs." And because there was no-one around to say "WTF, Terry" or "perhaps you are just hungry" or "Mr Cavanagh, the egg's paucity of external appendages and senses wholly disallow it as a means of self-directed locomotion", that is exactly what he did.

We are all the richer for it, because Egg (subtitle "why not be an egg") is eggcellent. It's also free and playable right now in a browser on Itch.io.

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 30, 2025 - LWN.net

2025-10-30T00:08:28.000Z

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access.
Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0; Tor Browser 15.0; Quotes; ...
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T22:54:36.000Z

For as video gamey a series as The Matrix is, it is a touch surprising there have only been a handful of actual games. Obviously the one that makes most sense is The Matrix Online, what other genre but an MMO could The Matrix could be? Well, there's also Enter The Matrix, which is basically Max Payne, but you still have to wonder what else could have been. Especially because The Wachowskis literally pitched the idea of Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima making a Matrix game directly to Konami.

The Florist sounds like a lovely, cosy game right up until its a survival horror about killer plants - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T21:32:35.000Z

Right, what do we have here, a new game called The Florist, 'ey? About a woman delivering a beautiful flower arrangement to a lakeside town? Well, surely this is one of those wholesome, cosy games I've been hearing about! Nope! It is, in fact, a survival horror, and not the kind that's trying to trick you like I just made a less than half-arsed attempt at.

CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two is surprisingly hesitant about AI usage for entirely unsurprising reasons - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T20:10:14.000Z

Because that sacred line called profit must always go up, we are seeing more and more game studios announce their intention to incorporate various forms of AI tech. PUBG publisher Krafton just recently referred to themselves as an AI-first company, the big wigs up top at EA are reportedly pushing for it hard, it is, seemingly, unfortunately, inevitable. Which makes Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick's comments on it ever so slightly surprising - but only slightly, we'll get back to that.

Descent of Lunaris is a sci-fi dungeon crawler RPG for sickos, with Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei roots - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T18:16:04.000Z

I'm two for two on writing about games set on the moon today, but sometimes that's just how it is! This time around it's about a newly revealed game called Descent of Lunaris, a dungeon-crawling, turn-based RPG whose devs say it's inspired by classics like Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei. And, truth be told, it truly looks like a game for sickos, who I'd like to clarify here I am referring to with every sincere ounce of love in my heart.

Helldivers 2, Minecraft and Sea Of Thieves hit by connectivity issues following big Microsoft services outage - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T18:08:02.000Z

If you're having trouble getting into Minecraft, Helldivers 2 or Sea Of Thieves right now, know that it might have something to do with a Microsoft service outage that has taken services such as Azure offline. All three of the aforesaid games are experiencing spikes on DownDetector.com, and there are reports of disconnections and failed logins on social media. The outage has also affected various possibly more consequential non-gaming things, such as airline bookings and banks. On the upside, it seems to have taken down Microsoft Outlook.

13 years on, TimeSplitters Rewind will finally launch this November, smooshing all three Free Radical games together - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T17:31:23.000Z

Enough time has passed, and enough disappointment endured, that all I can remember of the Timesplitters series is a map's worth of landmine-throwing monkeys. It's possible this is an actual traumatic event from my youth, warped into a harmless videogame anecdote by years of cold water therapy and hypnosis.

We'll find out on November 23rd, when Cinder Interactive release TimeSplitters Rewind - a fan revival project that stirs together modes, maps, and story material from all three original TimeSplitters games. Oh look, they've published a trailer. Let's have a watch and see if it dredges up any additional explosive, hairy, hooting memories.

GNU/Linux man pages 6.16 released - LWN.net

2025-10-29T17:17:11.000Z

Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also available as a PDF book.

Floorboards creak, spooks spook and I harass a man with a bell in detective puzzler The Séance of Blake Manor - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T17:15:16.000Z

Ring ring. Ring Ring. Ring ring. The stern and bespectacled manager of Blake Manor's hotel appears for the eighth time. You're looking a bit narked there mate, I, the investigatorman, observe. Yes, he says yet again, I'm a bit stressed and busy on account of our telegram machine having gone kaput. Makes sense, I reply, can't think of any other reasons why you might be pissed off. He shuffles back into his office for exactly five seconds. Ring ring.

You're being haunted in the demo for spooky detective puzzler The Séance of Blake Manor, which released in full earlier this week, having had a demo up on Steam for a good while. However, I can confirm having taken in the first night of that demo that you're also give the power to do the haunting yourself.

ICANN report: DNS runs on FOSS - LWN.net

2025-10-29T17:05:17.000Z

ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on "the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)". The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US, UK, and EU as they apply to FOSS in the DNS system; it includes findings and guidelines "to strengthen the FOSS ecosystem that is critical to the secure and stable operation of the Internet". From the report's summary:

This ecosystem depends on a global network of maintainers and contributors who are often unpaid volunteers. While many are unpaid volunteers, the DNS space is unique in also relying on a handful of long-lived maintenance organizations. This creates a model based on community collaboration rather than the commercial contracts that define a traditional software supply chain, which introduces unique risks related to financial sustainability for the maintenance organizations and maintainer burnout for volunteers.

These unique characteristics mean that regulatory frameworks designed for proprietary software may not be well-suited for FOSS and therefore could have severe unintended consequences to the stability of critical Internet infrastructure.

Thanks to SSAC member Maarten Aertsen for the tip.

Yes, after 13 years it really does look like retrofuture survival horror Routine has a release date - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-10-29T17:04:00.000Z

It is more than commonplace these days for games to get some kind of delay, in fact it's surprising when the big boy names don't get one, like, say, GTA 6, which was meant to be out this year, but got pushed to 2026. But it's rare that most games take more than 13 years to develop, an amount of time which retrofuture moonbase horror game Routine did in fact take. Except now its release is right around the corner!

Minecraft Java modding is about to get a lot easier and more interesting - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-10-29T16:59:37.000Z

Mojang announced a big change is coming to Minecraft: Java Edition, one that could make it a whole lot easier to make mods and perhaps make them more exciting.

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[$] Retrieving pixels from Android phones with Pixnapping - LWN.net

2025-10-29T16:44:04.000Z

A new class of attacks on Android phones, called "Pixnapping", was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from sensitive email and chats to two-factor authentication (2FA) codes could be captured—and shipped off to an attacker's site.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is now on GOG - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-10-29T16:36:20.000Z

Another bigger release has arrived on GOG with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle now available for fans of the DRM-free store.

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