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Playtron GameOS Alpha 3 brings the 'GameLAB' tool for game configuration and remote management

By Liam Dawe, 6 hours ago

Playtron, the company attempting to build a Linux gaming distribution to take on Valve, Microsoft and others have released GameOS Alpha 3 with a bunch of new features. This includes a new fancy open source tool named GameLAB.

System76's COSMIC Alpha 5 is here with a new media player, VRR improvements and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2025

Hardware vendor System76 continue building up their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a fifth alpha now available for testing.

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Deadlock from Valve drops fixed two-week update cycle to move onto larger updates

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2025

While developers at Valve continue building up the invite-only Deadlock, their next-generation MOBA, they're changing up how they do updates for the game.

PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2024

Playtron continue building up their PlaytronOS / GameOS (they don't seem to have settled properly on a name yet) alternative to SteamOS and Windows with a second Alpha release out now.

System76 release COSMIC Alpha 2

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2024

System76 are continuing to expand and improve their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a second Alpha release now available for testing.

Cross-platform Nexus Mods app v0.6.0 out now expanding Cyberpunk 2077 support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2024

The Nexus mod platform team continue building up their newer open source and cross-platform mod launcher, with expanded support for Cyberpunk 2077 modding in the new 0.6.0 version out now.

Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2024

Playtron are quietly building up their Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes, and not only have they released their first Alpha but they've pulled in another investor too.

System76 desktop environment COSMIC alpha now available to try

By Liam Dawe, 8 Aug 2024

System76 have today released the first alpha preview for you to try out COSMIC, their brand new home-grown desktop environment.

Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2024

On top of fixing up various issues with Stardew Valley modding, the new Alpha of the cross-platform and open source Nexus Mods app introduces experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support.

Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2024

I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.

KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2023

Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.

Modrinth make their own launcher for Minecraft modders

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2023

Modrinth, the open source modding platform that's gaining popularity, has now announced the first Alpha build of their own launcher to make modding easier for Minecraft fans.

Stone Kingdoms is an in-development open source remake of Stronghold

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2023

Anyone remember the original Stronghold from FireFly Studios? Well, there's an open source remake named Stone Kingdoms.

The next release of 0 A.D. will have experimental Vulkan API support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2023

0 A.D. is an in-development free and open source RTS, one that's very promising and looks pretty good and the next Alpha version will also feature experimental Vulkan support.

Beyond All Reason is looking incredible for fans of Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2023

Beyond All Reason is an in-development free and open source RTS, based on the SpringRTS game engine and their latest update showcases just how great it looks.

Castle Game Engine building up towards a huge new release

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2022

It's not only Godot Engine that's building towards a big new release. We also have the free and open source Castle Game Engine you might want to keep an eye on.

CurseForge modding client comes to Linux in Alpha, only supports WoW for now

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2022

CurseForge, the popular game modding client, has now officially released an early Alpha version for Linux.

Google detail more on how Steam on Chrome OS works with Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2022

Want to get more info behind the scenes on how Steam for Chrome OS works? It uses Linux but it's a little bit complicated and Google has put out the first in a series of blog posts to talk more about it.

Valve actually announced Steam for Chrome OS now too

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2022

After a bit of a false start with an announcement made too early, Google has now announced Steam for Chrome OS and Chromebooks and now Valve has done their own brief announcement. So it's all officially official now.

FreeRCT sees a first release trying to capture the feel of RollerCoaster Tycoon

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2022

While there is the popular OpenRCT2 for an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, it does rely on the original data files, and so the FreeRCT project aims to be a completely free and open source inspired game.

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