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ElectricMaple joins WiVRn and ALVR in giving options to stream VR to a headset

By Liam Dawe, Jun 19

Helping you cut down on all those wires, and potentially making way for cheaper low-end VR headsets for streaming, ElectricMaple was announced by Collabora and PlutoVR joining the likes of WiVRn and ALVR.

Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 18

KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released today bringing with it plenty of exciting new features, some big and some small but there's plenty to enjoy.

Classic free physics sandbox game The Powder Toy is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jun 17

Remember when falling sand on your screen was all the rage? The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds endosymbiosis, toxin customization, day / night cycle

By Liam Dawe, Jun 17

Thrive just keeps on getting more interesting. An open source evolution sim powered by Godot that allows you to take control of a species from its first steps as a tiny organism.

Canonical detail improvements the Steam Snap, work to advance gaming continues on Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe, Jun 17

Canonical are well into development on Ubuntu 24.10, the next non-LTS version of the popular Linux distribution and things keep improving for gamers.

NVIDIA exploring ways to support an upstream kernel mode GPU driver

By Liam Dawe, Jun 17

Time to get your popcorn out, as it seems NVIDIA are continuing their steps to further improve their Linux support on their GPUs.

Wine 9.11 released continuing the ARM improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jun 16

Wine 9.11 has arrived as a new development release for the Windows compatibility layer, and with it new features and bug fixes for a big part of what makes Proton possible.

Hypersomnia is a free and open source top-down competitive 2D shooter

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13

Feeling competitive? Hypersomnia from Patryk Czachurski is a top-down 2D competitive online shooter. It's free, open source and you can play it via Steam or directly in your browser.

Simple GOG client for Linux Minigalaxy version 1.3 is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13

If you need a GOG game downloader for Linux that's nice and simple, Minigalaxy just got updated with a few good bug fixes.

Proton 9.0-2 brings better controller support in launchers, more playable games, lots of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Jun 12

Valve just released the latest stable update to Proton, the compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-2 bringing some fun additions.

OBS Studio 30.2 Beta 1 adds Linux support to the native NVENC encoder, other Linux improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jun 11

OBS Studio 30.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing for anyone interested in recording and livestreaming video, and there's some nice Linux improvements coming.

Looks like GPU switching tool optimus-manager isn't abandoned yet

By nwildner, Jun 9

As we have previously reported here, optimus-manager, the GPU manager for laptop setups was going silent because the main developer didn't have the time or resources to keep that project running on Github. Looks like it's coming back!

Proton Experimental gets updates for Guild Wars 2, Squad, Sleeping Dogs and more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 7

Another weekend update of Proton Experimental has landed, with a few game fixes for Linux and Steam Deck fans.

Fight the devs of Fishards, if you win - it goes open source! Lose and it's deleted from Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jun 7

Well, that's certainly one way to pull in some eyes isn't it? Fight the developers, get it open source or Fishards will be gone from Steam.

Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Jun 6

Moonlight and Sunshine together are awesome, giving you a great open source way to stream games from one device to another and the latest Moonlight PC release brings in some big new features.

Honeykrisp is a new conformant Linux Vulkan driver for Apple M1

By Liam Dawe, Jun 6

Apple M1 support on Linux is about to take another leap forwards, with the introduction of the open source Honeykrisp Vulkan driver.

GE-Proton 9-6 (and 9-7) brings various upstream changes from Valve's Proton

By Liam Dawe, Jun 5

A new release of the community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 9-6 is here, although nothing too exciting this time as it's pulling in upstream Proton changes from Valve. UPDATE: GE-Proton 9-7 was also released.

Wine 9.10 brings updated vkd3d, more ARM improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jun 1

The Wine 9.10 development release is out now for the Windows compatibility layer, part of the secret juice of Steam Play Proton.

Proton 9.0-2 has a Release Candidate ready for testing on Linux PC and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, May 31

Valve stealthily put out a Release Candidate for testing the next stable update to Proton for Linux PCs and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-2.

Athena Crisis looks a lot like Advance Wars and now its code is open source

By Liam Dawe, May 30

Entering Early Access on Steam back in March, Athena Crisis clearly takes inspiration from the classic Advance Wars and now the code has been made open source.

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