The open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app that's currently in development has a new 0.6.1 release available for testing with some nice improvements.
Taking a heavy dose of ideas from Advance Wars, Nakazawa Tech / Null Games released the 1.0 version of Athena Crisis.
GE-Proton 9-14 has been released bringing in more game fixes for Linux desktop and Steam Deck, for those who need the extras.
One day, Wayland will truly take over the Linux world, but it's not quite there yet with plenty still using X11 due to various problems some of which the new Frog Protocols aim to solve.
If you have a PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 and want to stream games to something else like your PC or Steam Deck, chiaki-ng is what you need and it just got a great upgrade in version 1.9.0.
Need more control over your hardware on desktop Linux? CoreCtrl had a small update recently to expand the support to the AMD RX 7600.
The PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 just got expanded online play support, thanks to an update to RPCN, a server for matchmaking meant to be used with RPCS3.
For all of you who play games from other stores and want those games on Linux and Steam Deck, Heroic Games Launcher continues to be one of the best ways to do it.
Wine 9.18 released September 20th is the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer that brings new features and bug fixes.
The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements.
Quite a big surprise, but truly a welcome one, and a great one for game developers. Microsoft are moving more towards open standards by adopting SPIR-V for DirectX.
Valve released two fresh Proton upgrades to bring more compatibility with Windows games to Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-3 now available and Proton Experimental upgraded.
In a similar spirit to Freedoom, for Quake fans perhaps you'll want to take a look at LibreQuake, which aims to do a similar thing to allow you to play Quake content with completely open source software.
There's been a bit of a furore in the emulation community lately centred around the PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation, which has now seen two license changes recently.
Want to learn a little more about Lutris, the popular Linux app for managing games, emulators and much more? Here's your chance.
Linus Torvalds announced the final release of the Linux kernel 6.11, as usual with a ridiculous amount of improvements, fixes, support for new and future hardware releases and everything in between.
Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.
Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.
After the news recently that Microsoft gave the Mono Project over to the Wine team, it has now been moved over to the Wine GitLab. Plus, some changes for Wine contributors may be coming with a new Code of Conduct.
Many months in the making, the Decky Loader developers have released version 3.0 of their Steam Deck plugin system, which works with the big Steam Families update.