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Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking

By Liam Dawe, 6 Dec 2023

GameMode, the tool for Linux originally from Feral Interactive, has version 1.8 released with some new features to tweak your system performance for gaming.

Combined Arms, the big free retro C&C and Red Alert combo 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Dec 2023

Combined Arms brings Command & Conquer and Red Alert action mashed together into a single OpenRA powered game and the 1.0 release is out now.

Minetest 5.8.0 is out now with improved settings, Minetest Game no longer default

By Liam Dawe, 5 Dec 2023

Minetest, the popular free and open source voxel game engine, one that can be used to play various different games (like a Minecraft clone) just released version 5.8.0.

EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2023

EA (Electronic Arts) have added a few more patents to their Patent Pledge for Increasing Accessibility to help game developers.

ControllerImage provides easy on-screen prompts for game developers

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2023

Developer and game porter Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has created a new library named ControllerImage for game developers, with an aim to help showing on-screen controller prompts

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2023

The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.

Proton Experimental fixes Baldur's Gate 3, improves Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2023

Valve released a fresh Proton Experimental update for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux to finish up November so here's what's new and improved.

Godot Engine 4.2 is out now with AMD FSR 2.2 and lots of new features

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2023

Godot Engine 4.2 is officially released bringing with it a great many improvements for developers using this popular free and open source game engine.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.11 released with custom library categories

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2023

Heroic Games Launcher 2.11 is out now and brings with it an easier way to sort your game library by adding custom categories.

Mesa 23.3 is out now with the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2023

Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.

Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2023

As the KDE team continue working full steam ahead towards Plasma 6, they're now down to a single showstopping bug for having Wayland by default.

PipeWire 1.0 is out now for modern Audio and Video on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2023

The day finally arrived! PipeWire 1.0 has been officially released, marking the real start of properly modern audio and video handling on Linux.

VKD3D-Proton 2.11 released with DirectX Raytracing enabled by default

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2023

An exciting release of VKD3D-Proton has arrived! VKD3D-Proton 2.11 brings with it some big improvements for the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer used in Valve's Proton for Linux PC and Steam Deck.

Wine 8.21 brings High-DPI scaling and initial Vulkan support for Wayland

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2023

Wine 8.21 has rolled out as the latest development release and brings with it some nice sounding stuff, readying up for Wine 9.0 early next year.

GE-Proton 8-25 released, should fix a bunch of early 2000s games

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2023

A small hotfix release of GE-Proton went up with GE-Proton 8-25 containing two changes, but for players of classic games it might be a good release to try.

Open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider 1 'TR1X' gets Linux builds

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2023

Want to play a classic with a fresh open source game engine? TR1X for Tomb Raider 1 from 1996 has a new release out with a Native Linux version now available.

Intel Vulkan drivers on Linux should run more games with Mesa 24.0

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2023

While work is ongoing to provide brand new Intel Xe Vulkan drivers on Linux with their newer driver, work is still happening to improve the current driver.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2023

A big step for the in-development open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK, as Collabora have announced how it's hit Vulkan 1.0 conformance.

GE-Proton 8-24 fixes Yakuza 5 Remastered cut-scenes and pulls in D8VK

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2023

A rather interesting release for GE-Proton has arrived! GE-Proton 8-24 for Steam Deck / desktop Linux has some good game fixes and pulls in the exciting work of D8VK.