Category: Misc

The next major version bump is coming for the Windows compatibility layer Wine, which forms a big part of Valve's Proton, with Wine 10.0 having a first Release Candidate.

Humble Bundle have announced they're bringing back a whole bunch of popular game bundles over the next 11 days. So it's a good chance to grab something you may have missed.

Flathub has positioned itself as pretty much the go-to place for Linux apps, since it works across many distributions and is even on the Steam Deck. Now, the GNOME Foundation are looking to hire someone to help expand it into a self-sustaining entity.

There's a whole bunch of hints and speculation going around right now, showing that Valve may be working towards a new kind of Steam Machine.

NVIDIA have today released driver version 565.77 as their latest stable New Feature Branch build available for Linux, pulling in all the changes from the 565.57.01 Beta plus a whole bunch more improvements.

Bullet Heavens are all the rage right now from Vampire Survivors to Brotato and everything in between them, so Valve launched have a little mini festival to celebrate them all.

Mesa developer Dylan Baker announced the release of Mesa 24.3.1, a bug-fix release for the latest stable release of the Linux open source graphics drivers.

While we've known for a while that Valve plan to get SteamOS Linux on devices other than the Steam Deck, we don't know when that will happen, but we've got another hint here that things are moving along.

Powered by the Raspberry Pi 5, the incoming pilet devices from soulscircuit look like a chunky retro-tech enthusiasts wet dream and I want them.

Fanatical are celebrating their birthday and so they have a new bundle up, which gives you a chance to win some pretty big prizes.

chiaki-ng, the free and open source PlayStation Remote Play app has a new release out with several enhancements, and it should now work better on Steam Deck in Gaming Mode.

Valve released the latest stable update to the Steam Client for Steam Desktop and Steam Deck today that includes a whole bunch of bug fixes.

While Valve no longer sell their Steam Link hardware, the idea lives on as an app you can install across various devices and recently Valve upgraded the Steam Link app for the Raspberry Pi platform.

A bit of a double-whammy this week from Intel. Not only did they announce that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, but they've also now properly revealed their new Arc B-Series GPUs.

The final Humble Choice Bundle is here for 2024 with the December selection a pretty nice well-rounded collection for you.

With integration coming in a future release of Proton-Sarek, designed for gamers that have older GPUs, the first release of DXVK-Sarek is out now.

Jingle Jam 2024 has begun and runs until December 14th, where you can donate to get a bundle of games and support various charities.

In a few previous years, I decided to do a fresh take each time on what the best Linux distribution was for gaming - so I'm back for a 2025 edition of the article that will cause you to tell me how wrong and terrible I am.

Here we go again! Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep. This week we get two sets of new games!

Some good news coming out from camp KDE, with their yearly fundraiser ongoing and they've managed to smash their original goal.