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Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

By Liam Dawe,
8
Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.
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Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader 3.0 gets a first pre-release

By Liam Dawe,
0
Decky Loader is a very popular tool to add plugins to the Steam Deck Gaming Mode, and Decky Loader 3.0 should be a big improvement.
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COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch

By Liam Dawe,
25
System76 are making a bit of a splash today, ahead of the Alpha release of their new desktop environment named COSMIC.
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Warzone 2100 version 4.5.0 Beta enhances support for campaign mods, improved multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
1
One of my favourite RTS games, Warzone 2100, just keeps on getting better thanks to it being open source. A major new Beta has been released that has some really great improvements for both singleplayer and online play.
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Flathub continues growing with over 2 billion downloads recorded

By Liam Dawe,
11
Flathub, the main front-end for Flatpak packages, which serves various applications and games to many different Linux distributions and Steam Deck has surpassed 2 billion downloads.
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Mesa gets a nice performance boost for Proton games with various videos

By Liam Dawe,
3
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has another blog post up and Merge Request ready for Mesa, the set of open source graphics drivers, which gives a big boost to performance for Windows games with various videos.
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NonSteamLaunchers adds support for EmuDeck, SteamRomManager and fixes Battle.net

By Liam Dawe,
0
NonSteamLaunchers is one of the simplest ways to get various other stores like Battle.net, Epic, GOG and more on Steam Deck / Linux has a fresh release adding some useful features.
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VKD3D-Proton v2.13 has updates for OpenVR / OpenXR, performance improvements + more

By Liam Dawe,
0
Hans-Kristian Arntzen today announced the released of VKD3D-Proton version 2.13, the Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan translator for Proton.
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Proton Experimental gets fixes for Helldivers 2, Ghost of Tsushima and more

By Liam Dawe,
3
Another update to Proton Experimental landed today, June 20th, from Valve bringing some game fixes across desktop Linux and Steam Deck.
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DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans

By Liam Dawe,
15
VR fans rejoice! The GNOME project has finally pulled in DRM lease protocol support today, something required for getting VR under GNOME on Wayland working well.
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ElectricMaple joins WiVRn and ALVR in giving options to stream VR to a headset

By Liam Dawe,
9
Helping you cut down on all those wires, and potentially making way for cheaper low-end VR headsets for streaming, ElectricMaple was announced by Collabora and PlutoVR joining the likes of WiVRn and ALVR.
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Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more

By Liam Dawe,
6
KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released today bringing with it plenty of exciting new features, some big and some small but there's plenty to enjoy.
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Classic free physics sandbox game The Powder Toy is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
4
Remember when falling sand on your screen was all the rage? The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions.
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Open source evolution sim Thrive adds endosymbiosis, toxin customization, day / night cycle

By Liam Dawe,
1
Thrive just keeps on getting more interesting. An open source evolution sim powered by Godot that allows you to take control of a species from its first steps as a tiny organism.
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Canonical detail improvements the Steam Snap, work to advance gaming continues on Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe,
40
Canonical are well into development on Ubuntu 24.10, the next non-LTS version of the popular Linux distribution and things keep improving for gamers.
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NVIDIA exploring ways to support an upstream kernel mode GPU driver

By Liam Dawe,
8
Time to get your popcorn out, as it seems NVIDIA are continuing their steps to further improve their Linux support on their GPUs.
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Wine 9.11 released continuing the ARM improvements

By Liam Dawe,
1
Wine 9.11 has arrived as a new development release for the Windows compatibility layer, and with it new features and bug fixes for a big part of what makes Proton possible.
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Hypersomnia is a free and open source top-down competitive 2D shooter

By Liam Dawe,
4
Feeling competitive? Hypersomnia from Patryk Czachurski is a top-down 2D competitive online shooter. It's free, open source and you can play it via Steam or directly in your browser.
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Simple GOG client for Linux Minigalaxy version 1.3 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
4
If you need a GOG game downloader for Linux that's nice and simple, Minigalaxy just got updated with a few good bug fixes.
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Proton 9.0-2 brings better controller support in launchers, more playable games, lots of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
1
Valve just released the latest stable update to Proton, the compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-2 bringing some fun additions.
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