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Cross-platform Nexus Mods app adds support for Mod Collections, fixes REDmod on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25

The open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app that's currently in development has a new 0.6.1 release available for testing with some nice improvements.

Advance Wars fans should check out Athena Crisis with the 1.0 release out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 24

Taking a heavy dose of ideas from Advance Wars, Nakazawa Tech / Null Games released the 1.0 version of Athena Crisis.

GE-Proton 9-14 brings fixes for Star Citizen, God of War Ragnarök and other games

By Liam Dawe, Sep 24

GE-Proton 9-14 has been released bringing in more game fixes for Linux desktop and Steam Deck, for those who need the extras.

Frog Protocols announced to try and speed up Wayland protocol development

By Liam Dawe, Sep 24

One day, Wayland will truly take over the Linux world, but it's not quite there yet with plenty still using X11 due to various problems some of which the new Frog Protocols aim to solve.

Cross-platform remote play app for PlayStation adds controller mapping, custom renderer options

By Liam Dawe, Sep 23

If you have a PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 and want to stream games to something else like your PC or Steam Deck, chiaki-ng is what you need and it just got a great upgrade in version 1.9.0.

CoreCtrl adds power profiles support for AMD RX 7600

By Liam Dawe, Sep 23

Need more control over your hardware on desktop Linux? CoreCtrl had a small update recently to expand the support to the AMD RX 7600.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets expanded online play support for multiple classics

By Liam Dawe, Sep 23

The PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 just got expanded online play support, thanks to an update to RPCN, a server for matchmaking meant to be used with RPCS3.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.15.2 released fixing Amazon, GOG and Epic Games issues

By Liam Dawe, Sep 23

For all of you who play games from other stores and want those games on Linux and Steam Deck, Heroic Games Launcher continues to be one of the best ways to do it.

Wine 9.18 brings a new Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg

By Liam Dawe, Sep 21

Wine 9.18 released September 20th is the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer that brings new features and bug fixes.

GNOME 47 'Denver' released with Accent Colours and various System Enhancements

By Liam Dawe, Sep 20

The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements.

Microsoft embraces more open standards with DirectX 12 adopting SPIR-V

By Liam Dawe, Sep 20

Quite a big surprise, but truly a welcome one, and a great one for game developers. Microsoft are moving more towards open standards by adopting SPIR-V for DirectX.

Proton 9.0-3 released and Proton Experimental upgraded for Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Sep 20

Valve released two fresh Proton upgrades to bring more compatibility with Windows games to Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-3 now available and Proton Experimental upgraded.

LibreQuake aims to create a completely free Quake alternative compatible with mods

By Liam Dawe, Sep 17

In a similar spirit to Freedoom, for Quake fans perhaps you'll want to take a look at LibreQuake, which aims to do a similar thing to allow you to play Quake content with completely open source software.

PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives

By Liam Dawe, Sep 16

There's been a bit of a furore in the emulation community lately centred around the PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation, which has now seen two license changes recently.

An interview with the creator of Lutris

By Liam Dawe, Sep 16

Want to learn a little more about Lutris, the popular Linux app for managing games, emulators and much more? Here's your chance.

Linux kernel 6.11 is officially out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 16

Linus Torvalds announced the final release of the Linux kernel 6.11, as usual with a ridiculous amount of improvements, fixes, support for new and future hardware releases and everything in between.

Ubuntu 24.10 gets a new Snap feature to handle prompting for app permissions

By Liam Dawe, Sep 13

Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.

KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 13

Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.

Wine team now hosting Mono, looking to adopt the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

By Liam Dawe, Sep 12

After the news recently that Microsoft gave the Mono Project over to the Wine team, it has now been moved over to the Wine GitLab. Plus, some changes for Wine contributors may be coming with a new Code of Conduct.

Decky Loader 3.0 is out now for Steam Deck plugins on the latest Steam update

By Liam Dawe, Sep 12

Many months in the making, the Decky Loader developers have released version 3.0 of their Steam Deck plugin system, which works with the big Steam Families update.

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