Google's online music service 'Google Play Music' has officially launched in select European countries, having been restricted to America for the last year or so. If you're in the UK, France, Germany, Italy or Spain you can now buy legal music downloads from the some of the worlds biggest record labels.
The latest NVidia GeForce driver, released yesterday, gives Linux users 'double the performance' and 'dramatically reduces game loading times', according to the company's press release. Having been in development for almost a year, the GeForce R310 driver has been designed to 'showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system'.
An updated version of Ubuntu for testing on the Nexus7 tablet has been released.
It's that time of the seemingly-every-other-month again - yes, it's Humble Bundle time! The Humble Indie Bundle for Android 4 has been launched today with 5 games, plus an extra one for those paying more than 'the average' price.
The Humble Bundle team have hired a 'prolific Linux games developer' to join their team full time. Edward Rudd, known to many under the nickname of 'urkle', has already been responsible for the porting of 17 games to Mac and Linux for the Bundle.
Daily builds of Ubuntu 13.04 - due for release in April 2013 - have today gone live for download.
OMG! Ubuntu! have learned from a reader that Reddit users on /r/linux_gaming have already figured out a way to bypass Valve's Beta Invitation - which allow users to start exploring Steam on Linux much earlier than the folks at Valve had likely planned for.
The limited-access beta of Steam for Linux has gone live. Over 60,000 people responded to the call for beta applicants made last month. From this pool an initial subset have been chosen to test the client and report their feedback.
Almost 50% of OMG! Ubuntu! readers have already upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 - are you one of them?
Canonical's VP of Sales and Business Development, Chris Kenyon, shared some interesting stats on Ubuntu's uptake in the world during the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit.
The Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution have announced a new tie-up with small American hardware reseller ThinkPenguin. For every Mint-branded computer sold by ThinkPenguin 10% of the total sale will be given back to the project.
CodeWeavers are giving away their Wine-based CrossOver software for free - but only for the next 24 hours.