Category: Misc

The best tool for video recording and livestreaming is about to get another upgrade with OBS Studio 31.0.0 Beta 1 out now.

After showing off the TUXEDO Gemini 17 - Gen3 back in September, TUXEDO have now revealed a slightly more compact desktop-replacement laptop with the Stellaris 16.

Slimbook have announced a fresh powerful AMD Ryzen powered ultrabook, the EVO, and it looks like a wonderful device.

Minetest, a voxel game engine created to be something like a Minecraft clone, is finally smashing apart the chains to become more its own unique thing.

When will it end? Will SteamOS 3.6 ever become stable? The end of the line has come, and gone, a few times now.

Doing the rounds across the net right now is a small update to the Steam checkout process when you're making a purchase, to make it clear you don't own what you buy.

There's a bit of unfortunate drama going on right now in Steam Deck land, with the Steam Deck plugin NonSteamLaunchers for Decky Loader getting the boot.

If you're in need of more games, here's another big sale for you. Humble Store are running a Handheld Hits sale that's good for Steam Deck players.

A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.

The day is here. Canonical have announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole), along with various flavours like Kubuntu 24.10 now being available.

Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has given an update in a blog post and a presentation at XDC 2024 going over work to improve Linux gaming on the Apple M1/M2 with Asahi Linux.

In a really surprising move the developers behind Decky Loader plugin Junk Store, which provides the ability to install games from GOG and Epic Games, are bringing the plugin to Steam officially.

Our friends down under will finally be able to buy an officially supported Steam Deck, as it heads to Australia officially in November.

If you've missed out on previous sales and bundles of Resident Evil games, you've got another chance for some big savings in the Build your own Resident Evil Bundle: Reawakened from Fanatical.

FEX-Emu is an emulation layer that allows you to run x86 and x86-64 binaries (like games and apps) on an AArch64 Linux host, similar to qemu-user and box86/box64. Instead of using full disk images, FEX-Emu uses rootfs overlay + forwarding GL processing to the host to achieve better performance in emulated software.

One missed in the inbox of no return from last week. The next-generation SDL 3 is closing in on a proper stable release now with the SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview now available for game developers.

Valve released another smaller Beta update for Steam desktop and Steam Deck with even more bug fixes.

Some fun news here. ZOOM Platform, a games store that offers DRM-free games both new and old (as well as helping update some older games) now offers a special tool for Linux gamers to run Windows games with Proton.

Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental on October 7th, that pulled in some needed fixes for various Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck.

While Valve previously confirmed that they are indeed working towards a version of SteamOS (used on Steam Deck) for the ROG Ally / ROG Ally X, we're now seeing some of that get into Gamescope.