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Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now

By Liam Dawe,
10
We're reaching the end-game now Wine fans, the time for Wine 9.0 to release is quickly approaching with a second Release Candidate now available. Plus VKD3D-Proton also had a small update recently too!
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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
8
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.
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FOSS strategy-shooter Unvanquished update brings better bots, improved server browser

By Liam Dawe,
1
Unvanquished, the free and open source strategy-shooter mix, has released version 0.54.1 bringing with it some much needed improvements to continue building on.
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Heroes of Might and Magic III game engine VCMI gets some huge improvements

By Liam Dawe,
1
While we have fheroes2 for Heroes of Might and Magic II, we also have VCMI for Heroes of Might and Magic III which also continues to advance as a free and open source cross-platform game engine reimplementation.
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Open source evolution sim Thrive has a new physics engine and big performance upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
0
Thrive is an in-development Early Access open source evolution sim, much like life itself it continues to evolve and a new release version 0.6.4 brings changes to ensure the foundation is solid.
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Linux Mint 21.3 Beta out now with experimental Wayland support for Cinnamon

By Liam Dawe,
7
Linux Mint 21.3 is due to release soon with a first Beta now available, coming with the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop with experimental Wayland support.
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Proton Experimental brings HDR to Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Injustice 2

By Liam Dawe,
7
Valve put up a brand new release of Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, which brings a sprinkle more HDR and some great bug fixes.
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Wine 9.0 has a first Release Candidate released

By Liam Dawe,
18
The time is approaching for the next major version bump to the Windows compatibility layer Wine, with Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 1 now available.
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W4 Games raises $15M to help push Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
17
W4 Games, the company set up by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli, along with veteran entrepreneur Nicola Farronato just received a rather large sum of funding.
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Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking

By Liam Dawe,
14
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.
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Combined Arms, the big free retro C&C and Red Alert combo 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
4
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.
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Minetest 5.8.0 is out now with improved settings, Minetest Game no longer default

By Liam Dawe,
12
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.
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EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming

By Liam Dawe,
11
EA (Electronic Arts) have added a few more patents to their Patent Pledge for Increasing Accessibility to help game developers.
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ControllerImage provides easy on-screen prompts for game developers

By Liam Dawe,
11
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
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KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe,
13
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.
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Proton Experimental fixes Baldur's Gate 3, improves Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2

By Liam Dawe,
3
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.
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Godot Engine 4.2 is out now with AMD FSR 2.2 and lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
1
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.
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Heroic Games Launcher 2.11 released with custom library categories

By Liam Dawe,
9
Heroic Games Launcher 2.11 is out now and brings with it an easier way to sort your game library by adding custom categories.
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Mesa 23.3 is out now with the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe,
5
Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.
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Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default

By Liam Dawe,
24
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.
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