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.
The Khronos Group have today announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 API specification, with various changes and improvements for game and application developers.
I doubt you need any more games, or perhaps you do, and you fancy some classics. Well the Disney Black Friday Humble Bundle has some fun stuff in it.
Motorsport Games announced at the end of November, that all NASCAR games will be delisted from stores on December 31st.
A while ago in November, it seems I missed a post from a user in the GamingOnLinux Discord server, noting that the Discord developers finally hooked up screen and audio sharing for Linux with Wayland.
Lutris, the popular free and open source game manager for Linux, has a fresh update out now fixing up some issues and adding in a good bunch of new features.
Valve have released the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2024. Here's the details from it.
Recently I covered the huge Proton 9.0-4 update for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux hitting the Release Candidate stage and there's been a couple of changes.
Another month down and we're closing in on the festive period, so here's a look back at what's been popular on Steam Deck during November 2024.
To help you decide on what to pick up, I've gone through the Steam Autumn Sale and picked out a whole bunch that will work great across both Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
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.
itch.io Creator Day is live right now, where the store will not take any cut at all from sales developers make.
With 11 quality games, the Raw Fury Humble Bundle is a really nice deal and great compatibility across Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
Quite a surprise this one. Palworld and Terraria are getting a crossover, but we don't really know what just yet.
Nexus Mods keep expanding their very promising cross-platform open source app for modding, that will eventually replace their older apps and the new 0.7.0 release just went out.
Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 24.2.8 open source graphics drivers for Linux with some bug fixes.
Another big milestone has been reached by Valve with their handheld Linux gaming PC, with the Steam Deck hitting 17,000 games rated playable or verified.
Another year coming to a close and so the Steam Autumn Sale is live again until December 4. Time to find where your wallet is hiding.
