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Lemonade is an attempt to continue on the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra

By Liam Dawe, Apr 3

While Nintendo took down the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu, the collateral damage was the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra which was also taken offline but Lemonade is an attempt to keep it going.

Flathub now prominently notes unverified Flatpak apps

By Liam Dawe, Apr 2

After all the issues with Canonical's Snap package scams lately, it seems the Flathub folks are continuing to ensure their platform is trustworthy.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.14 has GOG and Amazon fixes, category customization improvements

By Liam Dawe, Apr 2

The Heroic Games Launcher version 2.14.0 has been released and with it some category customisation improvements, to make them easier to work with. Along with fixes for their GOG and Amazon integrations and plenty more.

Free Settlers II inspired strategy game Widelands version 1.2 is out now

By Liam Dawe, Apr 2

It's free, open source and full of features. Widelands, a game inspired by The Settlers II, has a big new release out now with version 1.2.

Proton Experimental updated for The Finals, Red Alert 2, deals with high core count CPUs

By Liam Dawe, Mar 29

Valve has released a new Proton Experimental update that pulls in some nice fixes for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck gamers, and this update should improve quite a few games!

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

By nwildner, Mar 28

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

Free and open source action-adventure RPG 'Veloren' update 0.16 out now

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

It's free, it's open source and it's looking good! Veloren is a action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world and a brand new release is out with update 0.16.

Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced

By nwildner, Mar 26

Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.

chiaki4deck the PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck tweaks rumble

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

Continuing to push out small but useful sounding tweaks, the unnoficial PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck, chiaki4deck, has another little update out to make the experience better.

SDL 3 has a first preview release out with HDR and Vulkan for the 2D rendering API

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

Fun times ahead for game developers, as the very popular SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) has a preview of the upcoming SDL 3 now available for feedback and testing.

MangoHud manager GOverlay 1.1.1 released upgrading to QT6

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25

GOverlay, the app you can use if you want a UI to manage overlays like MangoHud has a new release out that upgrades its insides and fixes some bugs.

Proton 9.0 (Beta16) brings more regression fixes, updated Steamworks SDK

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23

Valve have released another Beta version of Proton 9.0, what will become the next main stable version of Proton on the path to getting as many games running as possible on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 9.5 released

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23

Another two weeks are done and so a fresh update of the Windows compatibility layer is live with the Wine 9.5 development release.

GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Well, that didn't last long did it. After a first release, GitLab have already pulled down the Nintendo Switch emulator suyu, due to a DMCA hit as a result of it being forked from yuzu which Nintendo shut down.

AMD FSR 3.1 announced with Vulkan support, upscaling quality improvements

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

During GDC, AMD announced the latest big upgrade to come for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution with version 3.1 planned to launch in Q2 2024.

3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.

GE-Proton 9-2 released, ULWGL gets renamed to umu (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher)

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Thomas "GloriousEggroll" Crider has released the latest GE-Proton 9-2 with a bunch of upgrades, plus some news about the Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher.

Proton Experimental fixes up classic EA games and fixes more regressions

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

A really fun release of Proton Experimental has landed for Linux and Steam Deck, fixing up some issues with a bunch of classic EA games that recently hit Steam.