Category: Misc

Love classic beat 'em up games? You're going to enjoy this latest Humble Bundle of games as there's some good picks inside it.

Oh yay, more AI stuff. Intel have announced that Lunar Lake is due to arrive in Q3 2024 and it will include a neural processing unit (NPU) for AI fans.

If you're a fan of cloud gaming, you may want to take a little look into Netris. The developers say it's a GeForce NOW alternative, one you can self-host with it being open source. They're also keen to highlight some Stadia-like elements of it too.

Surge Engine is a 2D retro game engine with an included Sonic-like game (Surge the Rabbit) for anyone who wants to make their own platformers like classic Sonic. The developers just released a big new version.

It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10.

Wine 9.9 was released Friday as the latest development release for the Windows compatibility layer to run more apps and games on Linux.

Proton Experimental was updated today by Valve for Steam Deck / Linux PCs which includes some more improvements for gaming.

The OrangePi Neo is an upcoming gaming handheld powered by Manjaro Linux Gaming Edition, and now we have some rough demo footage of a prototype actually playing games.

Summer is on the way and with things heating up a bit, perhaps you want a little more control over your system cooling wrapped up in a neat interface? CoolerControl has the right idea.

It's free game Friday! The sun is out shining so what a great day to sit inside and play some games to keep cool. Even cooler is that they're free to keep.

Valve released another two updates recently. The first is SteamOS 3.6.3 Preview for Steam Deck continuing to fix up issues, and a stable Steam Client Update for desktop PCs and Steam Deck.

Just recently NVK, the open source Nvidia Vulkan driver, merged in a new Vulkan extension that is rather important and means it will work properly with Gamescope.

Here's a good way for you to jump into the Monster Hunter world with Humble Bundle, plus some of the bigger DLC to go with it too.

Valve have issued the first update to the SteamOS 3.6 Preview series for Steam Deck, throwing in a couple of needed fixes.

Give thanks to Yoba, farming fans, for The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook has now launched! Make yourself some game-inspired tasty treats.

Another quality bundle is live on Fanatical with the Trinity Bundle - Immortal Edition, giving you a chance to grab multiple really good games for a ridiculous price.

Manjaro 24.0, based on Arch Linux, has been released pulling in a whole lot of upgrades across every part of the system.

While we have Wine and Proton nowadays, they're not always the best solution and one developer decided to get RPG Maker MV/MZ games on Linux.

Recently the Aleph One team released the classic Bungie shooter Marathon on Steam, as I covered previously, but it's only officially for macOS and Windows despite it supporting Linux. Now you can use Luxtorpeda for it.

Well, Nintendo aren't going to be happy about this one are they. A developer going by Mr-Wiseguy released an open source tool for bringing Nintendo 64 titles to any platform, and released a PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask.