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Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translator D8VK 'production-ready' 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
D8VK translates Direct3D 8 to Vulkan, just like DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 used with Wine and Proton on Linux and Steam Deck. Fantastic to see the progress on this.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds prototypes for going on land

By Liam Dawe,
Thrive is a free and open source in-development evolution sim, a bit like a more scientific version of EA's Spore and Thrive 0.6.2 expands the gameplay even more with some new prototypes.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 re-implementation OpenRCT2 now lets trains go backwards

By Liam Dawe,
Another wonderful update to OpenRCT2 is live, the re-implementation of the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 bringing some new features and plenty of fixes.

GE-Proton 8-2 is out now fixing Shatterline, various Daedalic games and more

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 8-2 is the latest release of the community-made version of Proton, the translation layer from Valve for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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