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Proton Experimental improves EA app, Battle.net and nvapi enabled for many games

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2023

A rather great sounding update to Proton Experimental landed on May 5th, so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Cartridges is another Linux game launcher and it's super-clean

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2023

If there's one thing we're not short on, it's launchers. There's some kind of launcher for everything including Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles and more. Now there's also Cartridges.

Open source physics-based tabletop sim 'Tabletop Club' gets an official release

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2023

After a bunch of early testing builds, the developer of the free and open source tabletop sim Tabletop Club has announced the first stable release.

GE-Proton 8-1 released, mainly pulling in Proton 8 upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

GE-Proton has a new release out with 8-1, which is mainly pulling in a whole bunch of improvements from Proton 8 and Proton Experimental.

OBS Studio 29.1 is out now with AV1 / HEVC for YouTube

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

One for content creators here, as the excellent OBS Studio just released version 29.1.0. This brings initial support for AV1 / HEVC on YouTube.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.7.1 hotfix 1 fixes up Epic Games login

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

Having some troubles with Epic Games on the Heroic Games Launcher? You weren't alone and a new hotfix is out to get it sorted.

OpenRazer v3.6 brings support for 11 more Razer devices

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

Another fantastic update to OpenRazer with version 3.6.0 bringing support for more Razer devices on Linux along with various improvements.

Proton 8.0-2 out for Linux / Steam Deck fixing the EA app (yes, again)

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2023

Valve has upgraded the newer Proton 8 that only launched for Linux and Steam Deck recently, with a bunch of bug fixes.

FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux using DXVK and vkd3d

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2023

Some fun for game developers and game porters looking at Linux and Steam Deck here, as FNA has released a major upgrade that has early support for Direct3D 11 on Linux.

Compatibility layer Wine release v8.7 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2023

Wine, the compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux has a fresh development release up with version 8.7.

Proton Experimental upgraded for April 26th brings fixes and new game support

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2023

Here we go, now that Proton 8 is out and Proton Experimental has been rebased on top of Proton 8, there's more fixes and improvements coming in for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gamers.

KDE apps like Kdenlive get big upgrades for KDE Gear 23.04

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2023

KDE Gear is the name of the big bundle of software the KDE team create, and with the KDE Gear 23.04 release there's new apps and plenty of improvements to making the desktop experience better.

Linux and Steam Deck compatibility tool Luxtorpeda gets upgraded in v63

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2023

Luxtorpeda is a very interesting project. It's a compatibility layer (like Proton) but designed to help you run Native Linux game engines for various Steam games.

Linux kernel 6.3 is out now here's some quick highlights

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2023

Linus Torvalds announced the full release of Linux kernel 6.3, and with it plenty of the usual improvements everywhere.

HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2023

Developer Melissa Wen recently sent in patches to improve HDR and Colour Management on Linux for Steam Deck and potentially other AMD GPUs.

Flathub app store for Linux and Steam Deck gets overhauled

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2023

The redesign of the Flathub app store for Linux is now live, bringing with it a refreshed look along with showing verified developers and their apps.

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2023

Here's something interesting for you. Valve developers seem to be improving the Mesa graphics drivers right now towards a secret game. Update: It was for Jedi Survivor.

Proton Experimental for Steam Deck & Linux upgraded with Proton 8

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2023

As expected after the recent big release of Proton 8, Valve has now also upgraded Proton Experimental which is now based on Proton 8 plus a whole bunch more.