Category: Apps

MangoHud, the awesome Linux overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan games has another new release. GOverlay, the FOSS application designed to make configuring MangoHud easy has also been refreshed.

The free and open source video livestreaming and capture software, OBS Studio, has a brand new release now available with lots of new goodies to play with.

The Unity team have put out the first Beta for Unity 2020.1 which will form the first of two "TECH stream" releases for this year.

GOverlay, the open source Linux application which currently works to help you really easily configure MangoHud has progressed quickly since the initial release.

No GOG Galaxy? Not so much of a problem right now with handy open source apps like Minigalaxy and a big new release is up.

With the Vulkan API making the creation of Linux gaming overlays like MangoHud easier, having a way to manage them without editing a configuration file would be sweet - enter GOverlay.

Back in 2018 Basemark announced and released Basemark GPU, their advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool. Last week, they release a huge update to it.

Valve have released a fresh update to Steam for those of you testing out the Beta, and with it comes some fixes for annoyances.

OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 has been released as the first step towards a new stable version, and it comes with some fancy new features for all platforms.

Do you make videos? Livestream? Well, you probably know of or use the cross-platform open source OBS Studio and how it's basically the go-to for such things and they just gained another huge sponsor.

Aseprite is a useful tool for artists, game developers and anyone interested in pixel art that's been around for nearly two decades and it's highly rated.

With Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" being released in the next few months, the team over at Canonical are looking for a little help testing their updated Steam package.

Paradox have released a new version of their game launcher, the screen that appears when you load most of their modern games to give a few little handy features.

Yesterday, Valve released an update to the Steam client pulling in a whole bunch of feature changes and a few visual adjustments from the recent Betas.

Oversteer is quite possibly one of my favourite open source applications, as it's made working with my own Logitech G29 a really great experience.

Monitoring your Linux gaming PC is pretty easy, there's some good applications out there to keep an eye on CPU use and more but what about some stress testing to see how it holds up? GtkStressTesting seems nice.

DoomEd was a program written by Carmack and Romero in 1993, to directly build the levels from the original Doom. Twenty seven years later, the developers behind Twilight Edge Software are releasing a free and independent port based on that program.

If you have a Wacom-style graphic tablet and you need a simple and distraction-free painting program, MyPaint seems like it could be a really good fit.

The first stable update for the Steam Client of 2020, pulling in all the recent changes from the Beta versions.

Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.