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PlayStation Remote Play for Steam Deck app chiaki4deck testing easier connections

By Liam Dawe,
Great news for anyone who uses their Steam Deck for PlayStation Remote Play, as the open source chiaki4deck app is testing a big upgrade for easier console connections.

Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync

By Liam Dawe,
Valve developers have done a lot of work over the years to improve AMD GPUs on Linux, and continue to do so with the Steam Deck using AMD and it seems like they're now getting stuck into NVIDIA too.

Wine 9.8 released with Mono updates, ARM improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Another biweekly development release for the Windows compatibility layer is here, with Wine 9.8 now available.

Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu

By Liam Dawe,
The battle continues! The fallout is ongoing from the legal battle between Nintendo and yuzu that saw the yuzu team fold.

Classic RTS Perimeter returns as PERIMETER: Legate Edition with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Perimeter originally released back in 2004, and it's set to make a return from developer K-D Lab with the PERIMETER: Legate Edition. It's also open source!

Proton 9.0-1 released with expanded game support for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve today released the first version of Proton 9.0, the newest stable version of the Windows compatibility layer to run games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers v2.1 out with Linux support now available

By Liam Dawe,
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is an awesome free kart racing fan game, and not only is there a new release out but the Linux version is now ready to be downloaded and played too.

Zink driver startup time squashed with new patches

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz is once again blogging about working on the Zink driver, and this time a nice optimization is on the way for startup times.

Bazzite 3.0 out now with Steam Deck OLED support nearly ready

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite 3.0 has been released with the internals upgraded to Fedora 40, which brings with it numerous improvements for gamers looking to get Linux on their PC or handheld gaming device like a Steam Deck or ROG Ally.

Open source evolution sim Thrive gets upgraded to Godot 4

By Liam Dawe,
A game engine upgrade across a major version is quite a big thing, and it initially proved a little problematic for the open source evolution sim Thrive but it is done.

Proton 9.0 Beta updated and nearing release for Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has pushed out what they're calling Proton 9.0 (Release Candidate 2), with a whole bunch of improvements for gaming on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

Proton Hotfix update fixes Fallout 4 frame pacing issue on Steam Deck OLED

By Liam Dawe,
Just recently we had the Fallout 4 "next gen" update, which came with some issues. Thankfully, Valve are on the case with Proton Hotfix.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK gets more enhancements

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Faith Ekstrand has written up a fresh blog post on Collabora which goes over implementing two extensions in NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver, and how it ended up fixing actual games.

Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0

By Liam Dawe,
More open source surprises for you today, coming from Microsoft too which is always interesting to see as they've now open sourced MS-DOS 4.0.

NVIDIA developer contributing to the open source NVK driver

By Liam Dawe,
Another surprise from NVIDIA here. On top of one developer contributing to Nouveau, we have another developer now contributing to NVK.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available

By Liam Dawe,
Another big Linux distribution release is upon us. Ubuntu 24.04 is a new long-term support release from Canonical available today.

Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers released after 5 years of development

By Liam Dawe,
Sonic fans will love this one! Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers builds upon the idea of its predecessor SRB2Kart, a kart racing game built on the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2, itself based on a modified version of Doom Legacy.

Flathub for Linux apps has been given quite the makeover

By Liam Dawe,
Flathub is my favourite place to grab various apps for Linux and Steam Deck and it just had a bit of a makeover and it's looking fancy.

Fedora Linux 40 is officially out now

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for some more upgrades? Today Fedora Linux 40 has now been officially released bringing with it big upgrades with GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6 and lots more.

Khronos Group seeking proposals for paid work to improve OpenXR for Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group, the overseers of many open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more are currently looking to pay someone to improve OpenXR in Godot Engine.
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