Has your dream always been to make money playing your favorite video games? Well, then you are living in the right age because today it is really possible to do it. Esports and videogames are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, this is bringing new opportunities for online jobs that you can pursue from anywhere. Did I say, digital nomads? There are[…]
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The STADIA box. Outside and inside the new gaming system package
Stadia is foremost a service, and as such should not rely on actual hardware. The fact is that to access the service in these first months of Stadia’s life, it is necessarily necessary to have purchased a Founder’s or a Premiere Edition. In our case, we got our hands on a Founder’s Edition, including the controller in the exclusive midnight[…]
Read moreProton. The opensource Windows compatibility layer for Linux gaming
An open-source compatibility layer developed for running modern Windows-exclusive Steam games on Linux, this is Proton. Valve made a compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and some additional components, this brought the Linux gaming experience to a new level. A high level. Proton is based on Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator, the compatibility layer capable of running[…]
Read moreGoogle Stadia. A wonderful gaming experience on Linux
Google Stadia, the cloud gaming service operated by Google, has finally arrived. We have tested it on a ridiculous cheap PC with a 30$/€ AMD Athlon 200GE CPU with integrated graphics. We played the first game (out of Destiny 2) on the list: Samurai Shodown. The game is playable and fun, the audio was perfect, the graphics at FullHD 1920×1080[…]
Read moreA Linux hardware experience website turns 15
Phoronix.com turns 15 years old. The Linux related website that began with a case review and some peripheral reviews on a system running Knoppix. I started Phoronix for the poor Linux hardware support at the time and it’s been an amazing turnaround since that point. No longer is it a battle of getting network devices or input devices working on[…]
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