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OBS Studio gets another developer, launches a Project Bounty Program

By Liam Dawe, Aug 11, 2021

The excellent free and open source video / audio recording and livestreaming application OBS Studio appears to be doing really well and they've made some fun announcements recently.

Collabora cut down futex2 patches for the Linux Kernel to help Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe, Aug 11, 2021

After attempting for some time now to get their futex2 work into the Linux Kernel, Collabora have cut it all down to focus on one part that has seen thorough testing to help Windows games on Linux with Steam Play Proton.

Open 3D Engine should now run properly on Linux without extras

By Liam Dawe, Aug 10, 2021

Still moving along quite quickly! The Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from the Open 3D Foundation (headed by The Linux Foundation) is a game engine donated by Amazon based upon Amazon Lumberyard.

Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support

By Liam Dawe, Aug 9, 2021

Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play tool (like Proton, Boxtron) that allows you to run games from Steam with compatible game engines that have Linux native builds.

Wayland gets DRM lease protocol support to help VR on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Aug 9, 2021

Another tick in the box for Wayland to eventually properly replace X11 for all workloads, as the work on DRM lease protocol support aimed at VR has been merged in.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) comes to the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3

By Liam Dawe, Aug 9, 2021

Thanks to the power of open source, AMD's answer to NVIDIA's DLSS is spreading with FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) now available in the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3.

Impressive free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 25 is out now

By Liam Dawe, Aug 8, 2021

The twenty-fifth Alpha version of 0 A.D., a very impressive free and open source RTS is out now. Much earlier than usual since they managed to get over some development hurdles in the previous release.

Open source Linux GPU drivers Mesa 21.2 released

By Liam Dawe, Aug 5, 2021

Here we go, we have another big upgrade for open source graphics drivers with Mesa 21.2 officially out now.

Flare, a free and open source RPG and game engine has a huge new 1.12 release

By Liam Dawe, Aug 3, 2021

Flare is a name I've not heard for a while. It is both an RPG and a game engine for other developers to make their own games and a massive new release is out.

Proton 6.14 GE-2 and Wine 6.14 GE-2 are out, easily update Proton GE with ProtonUp

By Liam Dawe, Aug 3, 2021

Multiple updates to community-built versions of Proton and Wine, along with a very interesting bit of software to help you upgrade Proton GE called ProtonUp.

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator goes open source

By Liam Dawe, Aug 2, 2021

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is a classic comprehensive 3D space flight simulator and the developer has recently made it open source as they've haven't had enough time for it.

Lutris game manager 0.5.9-beta1 is out adding Epic Games Store support

By Liam Dawe, Aug 2, 2021

It's been a while since we had a new major release of Lutris, the free and open source game manager that allows you to bundle together all of your games in a single application.

Wine 6.14 released with Mono updates, more prep work for GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe, Jul 30, 2021

The Wine hackers have today popped open another bottle to let it breathe for a bit, with the development build Wine 6.14 now available for testing.

You can now support the Flatpak package format on Open Collective

By Liam Dawe, Jul 29, 2021

Flatpak is the next-generation of packing applications and games for Linux and now you can directly support it.

Open 3D Engine (O3DE) gets real close to properly working Linux support, free Kythera AI

By Liam Dawe, Jul 29, 2021

We mentioned recently that the newly announced Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from the Linux Foundation and Amazon AWS was closer to proper Linux support, and we have a fresh update on that.

Godot 3.4 beta 2 is out improving web exporting, crypto, rendering improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jul 29, 2021

Technically this is the first true Beta for Godot 3.4 as they mostly skipped the first when it had a major issue. Godot 3.4 is coming with some really great sounding improvements for this cross-platform free and open source game engine.

Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 is out with better performance, playtime tracking and more

By Liam Dawe, Jul 28, 2021

The Heroic Games Launcher is a fantastic community effort to bring the Epic Games Store to Linux and Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 builds upon the foundation to provide a better experience.

PulseAudio 15.0 rolls out with new features and hardware support

By Liam Dawe, Jul 28, 2021

PulseAudio, the sound server for Linux systems has a big new release up that pulls in support for a number of new features and there's some new hardware support too.

Proton 6.13 GE-1 is out now with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Resizable BAR

By Liam Dawe, Jul 27, 2021

Proton GE, the community-made version of Proton with a bunch of enhancements has a new release out with Proton-6.13-GE-1 pulling in a bunch of advanced features and fixes.

DXVK 1.9.1 is out for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, Jul 26, 2021

The DXVK project continues to mature its translation layer for Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan, something that can be used together with Wine and Proton (along with a few ports using it).

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