Fortnite is finally coming to Linux thanks to Epic rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat, though Steam Deck support is still in the wind

Epic Games is officially working on bringing its battle royale shooter Fortnite to Linux. The announcement was tucked away at the bottom of Epic's widely mocked blog post revealing the new, "vibe-coded" Epic Games Store, which is also coming to Linux. At the time, Epic explained it's going to be working with Linux distro maintainers on a set of security requirements needed to run Fortnite. Distros - short for distributions - are operating system variants of Linux, each with its own goals and prioritised system operations. Valve's SteamOS, for instance, is based on Arch Linux. Because of the many discrepancies between Linux distros, each would need to implement Epic's security requirements individually if they want Fortnite to run on their operating system. Fortnite will arrive on Linux via the EGS launcher, but only if a "critical mass of distro maintainers" is reached. Epic didn't specify numbers.

Watch this classic war movie before it leaves HBO Max at the end of October Tom Cruise has built a career out of playing larger-than-life characters, but some of his best performances are when he delves into the more vulnerable people beneath the movie-star bravado. Days of Thunder filters the story of a hotshot NASCAR driver through the humbling process of learning to trust someone, while Jerry Maguire finds a sports agent in the throes of learning that success means little without genuine human connection. Even Tropic Thunder, for all its outrageous comedy, gives Cruise room to disappear into a grotesque Hollywood executive whose insecurities are as ridiculous as his explosive temper. And Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger gives Cruise one of his most fascinating character studies yet as an oil tycoon with a brazen plan to save the world.

An extraordinary ensemble and dazzling animation give the Netflix sequel a warmer, more hopeful heart Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 finds something worth living for in Night City

The first season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is filled with memorable moments that serve as the foundation to its story, moments that make the whole season feel like a kind of brutal, heartbreaking symphony in which every thread and refrain serves a purpose, all coming together in ways that make each element resonate with more power than it ever could on its own., It’s almost as ifStudio Trigger and CD Projekt Red knew they had to hit these incredible narrative highs and worked backwards from them, ensuring that every minute detail of its 10-episode run cleanly paved the way to its most memorable setpieces. I’m thinking of scenes like Edgerunners’ protagonist David Martinez watching his mentor Maine succumb to cyberpsychosis as Trigger depicts David’s immediate, gut-wrenching grief in the most visually disturbing way with a few seconds of detailed animation, as well as the final moments in which  netrunner Lucy, having dreamt of going to the moon for her entire life, finally makes it because of her lover’s actions. These only hit because Edgerunners uses every frame of animation to earn them.

In 1966, CBS debuted the now-classic television special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. In it, all the kids in the Peanuts gang take part in typical Halloween activities, including trick-or-treating and pumpkin-carving — except for Linus. Instead, Linus is preparing for the arrival of a mythical being known as the “Great Pumpkin.” As Linus explains, “Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere,” then he distributes toys to the children waiting for him. Linus spends the special writing letters to the Great Pumpkin and trying to convince others of its existence. Then he spends Halloween night in a pumpkin patch, awaiting the Great Pumpkin’s arrival. Of course, the Great Pumpkin never emerges, but Linus still vows to wait again next year. To the casual Peanuts fan, that may be all they ever know of Linus and the Great Pumpkin, but dedicated readers of the Peanuts comic strip know there’s much, much more to the story. The Great Pumpkin was first mentioned in a Peanuts comic on Oct. 26, 1959.

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