Category: Misc

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.

The KDE team have today released the Plasma 6.2 desktop environment bringing with it a "friendlier, more accessible and smarter environment".

Another chance for you to support queer indie developers, authors, and artists. The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle for 2024 is now live on itch.io.

Getting more hardware working well on Linux is the OpenRazer project that released version 3.9.0 adding in support for various new devices from Razer.

A bit of game industry news for you: in a pretty big win for Epic Games and their Unreal Engine, 343 Industries rebrands to Halo Studios and said the future of Halo will be built on Unreal Engine 5.

For any of you who work with image editing on Linux for any reason, you've probably used the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) at some point, well it's getting really close to the long-awaited 3.0 release now.

Want some quality twin-stick shooters? Check out the new Twin Stick 'Em Up Humble Bundle that's now live.

Another Steam Client Beta release is live for October 4th that includes a bunch of quick bug fixes for desktop and Steam Deck.

Developer Alexandre Julliard announced the release of Wine 9.19, the Windows compatibility layer that allows thousands of apps and games to run on Linux.

It's time to grab another sweet free game courtesy of GOG.com during their big Autumn Sale that's ongoing until October 8th, 7 AM UTC.