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OpenRazer 3.7 brings even more Razer device support to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRazer 3.7.0 is out now bringing with it plenty of code clean-up and lots of new device support to Linux for Razer hardware fans this is an essential.

Humble has a bundle full of awesome games IGN gave 9s and 10s

By Liam Dawe,
Need some critically highly-rated games? Humble Bundle put up a rather fantastic selection of games that IGN gave either a 9 or 10 score to and it really is a good bundle.

October 23 Steam Survey: Simplified Chinese rises, Linux and macOS decline

By Liam Dawe,
We have another fresh Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2023 and the results show that Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam has another sharp jump resulting in some odd results.

Latest Steam Client Beta has some useful controller support upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has rolled out a fresh Steam Client Beta for desktop which includes some really good sounding improvements for controller support, so here's what's new.

War Thunder game engine Dagor Engine from Gaijin now open source

By Liam Dawe,
This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.

Cinnamon 6.0 for Linux Mint 21.3 to have 'experimental' Wayland support

By Liam Dawe,
Finally. All the pieces are coming together for Wayland to truly be the actual future for Linux, even Linux Mint are now moving forward with it in their Cinnamon desktop.

Survival game Vintage Story has another big tech upgrade coming

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story is a challenging open-world survival game inspired by eldritch horror themes, certainly quite different to a lot of survival games out there with some really impressive depth to the mechanics and it's about to get much more impressive.

KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming

By Liam Dawe,
While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there's a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.

Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain

By Liam Dawe,
Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!

Canonical detail a whole lot of Steam Snap improvements

By Liam Dawe,
While most people will be using a normal package for Steam on Linux or the Flatpak, Canonical continue pushing their own Snap packages and one that's needed a lot of work is Steam.

The Outlast Trials gets fixed on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The Outlast Trials from Red Barrels recently had a big upgrade with some big new content additions, but it broke the game on Steam Deck. Thankfully the developers have solved the issue so it keeps its Steam Deck Verified status.

Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Well, here we go again. Apex Legends just launched the Ignite Update, and with it sadly it seems they messed up Easy Anti-Cheat for Steam Deck / Linux.

NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.

NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx gets a big animation update out now

By Liam Dawe,
The work modders are doing to make Half-Life: Alyx not just playable but actually fun on traditional screens continues to impress, with the Half-Life: Alyx NoVR mod's latest animation upgrade out now.

Scratchy-art vicious action-RPG 'Death of a Wish' gets a fresh demo

By Liam Dawe,
Death of a Wish from the developer of Lucah: Born of a Dream looks seriously wild and there's now a demo available for you to try for a while.

GE-Proton 8-22 released with fixes for Alan Wake 2, Metal Gear Solid 3

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 8-22 has been released to give you some quick improvements for gaming on Steam Deck and desktop Linux with some recent releases.

Atari acquires Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers and Digital Eclipse

By Liam Dawe,
Atari seems to be on a bit of a spree recently to make something of a big gaming comeback and they recently announced even more acquisitions.

Games For Gaza raises over $200K for Medical Aid For Palestinians

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a chance for you to support Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) while also getting a little reward from the Games For Gaza Bundle on itch.io.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 33: I Hate Mondays

By Hamish,
After I installed the Flash Player plugin my first thoughts were of Garfield.com, an award winning website which, while a bear to navigate back in the day, was home to a wide array of Flash based games and amusements based around the titular comic cat created by Jim Davis. Caches of the old Garfield.com content can still be found hosted on the Internet Archive.
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