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AMD Ray Tracing on Linux gets closer with Mesa enabling specific games

By Liam Dawe, Jan 4, 2023

The work going into the open source Mesa graphics drivers continues on, with AMD Ray Tracing picking up speed and they're going to enable Quake II RTX and Doom Eternal support by default now.

Valve dev teases HDR support for Linux Gaming

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3, 2023

Lots of people noticed recently than a whole lot of working was going into the Gamescope project for HDR support, and now a Valve developer has teased trying it out.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.7.7 adds support for NorthstarProton to play modded Titanfall 2

By Liam Dawe, Dec 27, 2022

ProtonUp-Qt, the very useful installer app to get different compatibility layers on Steam Deck and Linux desktop, has version 2.7.7 up adding in new tools.

Intel working on new Xe graphics driver for Linux

By Liam Dawe, Dec 23, 2022

A nice little bonus before the holidays, Intel have made public work on their brand new Xe driver for the future of Intel graphics on Linux.

Proton 7.0-6 now in testing for Steam Deck & Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe, Dec 22, 2022

Here's one missed from a week ago, Valve are testing another update to the stable version of Proton with Proton 7.0-6 needing some more eyes on it for testing.

Proton Experimental fixes The Witcher 3 — plus better steering wheel support

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2022

Valve has updated Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Linux desktop with a few quick fixes so here's the usual run over what's new.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine remake fheroes2 hits 1.0

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2022

fheroes2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, and after many development releases they've finally hit the big 1.0.

Linux Mint 21.1 is out now

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2022

Smelling fresh and ready to invite you in, Linux Mint 21.1 is officially out now so here's what's new and improved.

GameMaker makes a few more open source moves with extensions

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2022

Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2022

A dedicated Star Wars fan and code hacker has created something awesome: The Force Engine. A brand new free and open source modern game engine for Star Wars Dark Forces.

KDE Plasma gets Wayland Fractional Scaling, Fixing Multi-Screen and a Steam Deck updater

By Liam Dawe, Dec 19, 2022

I continue to be truly amazed by all the work going into KDE Plasma. Not only is it my desktop environment of choice on Linux, it's Valve's too as it powered the desktop mode on Steam Deck. It's about to get some juicy upgrades too.

The free and open source Worms-like 'Hedgewars' is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Dec 19, 2022

Hedgewars has been going for quite a number of years now, although it only had a 1.0 release back in 2019. It's very much styled in the spirit of Worms, except with hedgehogs.

GE-Proton 7-43 is out should fix up Immortals Fenyx Rising, Baldur's Gate 3

By Liam Dawe, Dec 19, 2022

GE-Proton 7-43, the community-built version of the Proton compatibility layer, is out now and it comes with some useful looking fixes for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gamers.

RazerGenie, a Qt app for configuring your Razer devices version 1.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, Dec 16, 2022

Needing a good UI for managing Razer hardware on Linux? RazerGenie is one (of a few) choice, and a big 1.0 release just went out.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translator VKD3D-Proton version 2.8 out now

By Liam Dawe, Dec 15, 2022

Valve and their open source contractors sure are a busy bunch. VKD3D-Proton, which translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan version 2.8 is out now.

Xfce 4.18 desktop is finally here

By Liam Dawe, Dec 15, 2022

Just shy of two years since Xfce 4.16 the latest release has landed with Xfce 4.18 that comes with tons of new features and a "gazillion" bug fixes.

Heroic Games Launcher gets another Hotfix to clean up more issues with v2.5.2

By Liam Dawe, Dec 14, 2022

Heroic Games Launcher continues to get cleaned up after the last major update, with v2.5.2 HOTFIX #2 now available.

Wine on Wayland sounds like it's coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe, Dec 13, 2022

Collabora have given an end of year update on how the work towards running the Windows compatibility layer on Wayland is coming along and it sounds good.

Open source evolution sim Thrive v0.6 out with a day and night cycle

By Liam Dawe, Dec 13, 2022

Thrive just continues to impress. It's a free and open source evolution sim built with Godot Engine and version 0.6 is out now with big new helpful features.