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Nintendo blocked Dolphin emulator release on Steam

By Liam Dawe, May 27, 2023

Back in March the plan was announced for the Wii and GameCube emulator Dolphin to release on Steam, along with some useful Steam features but now that seems unlikely to happen.

Valve upgrades Proton Experimental with a number of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 26, 2023

Today there's a new build of Proton Experimental available for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gamers, with it Valve has given us a bunch of bug fixes.

Modrinth make their own launcher for Minecraft modders

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2023

Modrinth, the open source modding platform that's gaining popularity, has now announced the first Alpha build of their own launcher to make modding easier for Minecraft fans.

Wine and Wayland take another step closer with more code merged

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2023

The ongoing work bit by bit to get Wine and Wayland to fully work together on Linux has taken another step, with a third big merge request accepted.

Fedora Onyx voted in as a new official Fedora Linux immutable variant

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2023

Much like Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Fedora Sericea there's going to be a new immutable version of Fedora coming called Fedora Onyx.

Help fund Fish Folk, an ever-growing bundle of open source multiplayer games

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2023

Fish Folk is an in-development and constantly growing bundle of multiplayer games. All open source and they want your help to grow bigger and better.

HDR and Colour Management for AMD / Steam Deck and KDE Plasma coming along

By Liam Dawe, May 24, 2023

With all the work going on right now to get Linux to properly support HDR, another patch set has landed to hopefully get some of it hooked up.

This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited

By Liam Dawe, May 24, 2023

There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch.

Comet is an open source implementation of GOG Galaxy SDK that needs testing

By Liam Dawe, May 24, 2023

One sticking issue with GOG currently is GOG Galaxy, and how it has no support for Linux. Now the Comet project aims to bridge the gap.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets a nice Steam Deck upgrade

By Liam Dawe, May 23, 2023

The team working on the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have released some Early Access upgrades, this time around for the Steam Deck.

VKD3D-Proton v2.9 out now with multiple performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, May 22, 2023

Just before the weekend hit VKD3D-Proton v2.9 was release, giving some big improvements to the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer used in Proton on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 adds widescreen support

By Liam Dawe, May 19, 2023

Want to play the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II on modern platforms, with plenty of enhancements? Well the fheroes2 just keeps getting better - now with widescreen support.

Proton Experimental fixes The Elder Scrolls Online launcher & improves Street Fighter 6

By Liam Dawe, May 18, 2023

A fresh May upgrade for Proton Experimental has arrived giving us a few tweaks to improve some select games. Here's what's new in the May 17th upgrade.

Lutris v0.5.13 adds Proton support, itch and battle.net integration

By Liam Dawe, May 17, 2023

The latest release of the all-in-one game manager Lutris is here, with v0.5.13 bringing with it some important features like new store integrations.

Wine 8.8 is out now with more PE work, initial support for ARM64EC modules

By Liam Dawe, May 13, 2023

Time for a bit of weekend Wine? The translation layer for running Windows games and apps on Linux and other platforms development release v8.8 is out now.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets a huge performance boost

By Liam Dawe, May 12, 2023

Emulation coding is tricky business done by some people that are clearly 100x smarter than I am, and now the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu devs are just showing off.

ChimeraOS 42, the Linux distro for handhelds and consoles v42 is out

By Liam Dawe, May 12, 2023

Want to get Linux onto your handheld PC or your living room PC console? ChimeraOS is probably what you're going to want and version 42 has just been released.