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GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

GE-Proton has received two new versions with GE-Proton 8-26 and GE-Proton 8-27 shortly after, mostly focusing on fixing up issues in some games and pulling in new versions of various parts of Proton like Wine and DXVK.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.7 on Sunday, 7th January 2024 and as it turns out it's one of the largest releases ever.

Ray-Tracing performance uplift coming to the AMD RADV Linux graphics driver

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6

The open source AMD RADV Vulkan driver is set to get some nice looking performance improvements for Ray-Tracing, which should release along with Mesa 24.0.

Proton 8.0-5 has a Release Candidate ready for testing

By Liam Dawe, Jan 5

Early last month Valve put up a Release Candidate for the next version of Proton, which it seems went completely under the radar. Due to this they've not had much feedback for Proton 8.0-5 so time to get testing.

Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5

By Liam Dawe, Jan 4

For people wanting to install Linux Mint on newer devices, the Linux Mint team have announced a plan to update their EDGE ISOs with a later Linux kernel in the latest blog post.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe, Jan 4

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a much loved classic that continues to live on thanks to the Jazz² Resurrection project, with a new release that went live recently bringing Flatpak support.

KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3

The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3

Another really impressive project that just got a big final release is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine remake Daggerfall Unity which has hit the 1.0 meaning it's now complete!

ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3

Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.11 released

By fheroes2, Dec 27, 2023

The team is pleased to present the new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.0.11 after a month of hard work. As in any other release, we made many changes and are happy to share the news with you.

Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support

By Liam Dawe, Dec 22, 2023

The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.

Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2023

Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2023

Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

Proton Experimental brings more HDR + Steam Overlay hack for Easy Anti-Cheat from EOS

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2023

Valve put up a new release of Proton Experimental today and it has some interesting changes, so here's all the latest on what's new for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming.

MineClone2 'The Fire and Stone release' is out now

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2023

MineClone2 is a free and open source survival sandbox game built to resemble Minecraft on the Minetest game engine, and their latest release Fire and Stone is out now.

Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2023

The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2023

While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

ScummVM expands support for Macromedia Director

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2023

ScummVM is an awesome project bringing new life to absolutely loads of classic games through the power of open source, and now they're expanding support for Macromedia Director games too.

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