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Bungie retro FPS Marathon Infinity now on Steam, whole trilogy get Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe, Aug 26

The Aleph One developers have now put all three of Bungie's (Halo / Destiny) classic FPS series on Steam with Classic Marathon Infinity now available free.

GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin getting an official Flatpak for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Aug 26

Emulation fans might like this! The GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin, is going to finally get an official package for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

Wine 9.16 released with more Wayland work and an initial Driver Store implementation

By Liam Dawe, Aug 24

The Wine 9.16 development release is now available for this compatibility layer to run Windows apps and games on Linux. Here's all that's changed.

Descent 3 open source project gets a first release

By Liam Dawe, Aug 20

After getting open sourced back in April and now run as a community project, the Descent 3 open source engine has a first release available.

Check out the fancy new trailer for Beyond All Reason a really great free and open source RTS

By Liam Dawe, Aug 19

Beyond All Reason is quietly building up to be one of the best real-time strategy (RTS) games around. It's free, open source and it has a fancy new trailer.

Portable Linux distro winesapOS v4.1.0 out now with dual-boot support - good for handhelds

By Liam Dawe, Aug 19

While most people generally talk about ChimeraOS, Bazzite and at times HoloISO, another choice for your handheld Linux gaming is winesapOS that just had a huge new release.

Linux system performance optimizer GameMode v1.8.2 out now fixing hybrid CPU core pinning

By Liam Dawe, Aug 19

Started off by porting studio Feral Interactive, the Linux system performance optimization tool GameMode v1.8.2 is out now.

Steering Wheel Manager oversteer adds support for more wheels and Flatpak

By Liam Dawe, Aug 16

If you have a Steering Wheel, oversteer feels like an essential tool on Linux to allow you to configure it properly and a new release is out with version 0.8.3.

NonSteamLaunchers Decky Loader plugin for Steam Deck released

By Liam Dawe, Aug 15

Making it perhaps easier than ever to get more stores and launchers onto your Steam Deck, the NonSteamLaunchers plugin for Decky Loader is now available.

Godot Engine 4.3 is out now with huge new features and a fancy release page

By Liam Dawe, Aug 15

Looks like the Godot team went all-out for the Godot Engine 4.3 release, bringing this royalty-free open source game engine into a bright future.

Mesa 24.2.0 released with a new shader cache implementation

By Liam Dawe, Aug 15

Mesa 24.2.0 is out now bringing with it the usual advancements for open source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers on Linux.

Valve confirm plan to get Steam Deck's SteamOS on the ROG Ally and more handhelds

By Liam Dawe, Aug 14

We've known for a long time that Valve planned to get the newer SteamOS that's on the Steam Deck out for more systems, but they've been a bit quiet on it. Now, they've confirmed it's still the plan for the likes of the ROG Ally and other systems.

Retro-gaming Linux distribution Batocera 40 released

By nwildner, Aug 14

Batocera 40 got released last Sunday (2024-08-11) packing a lot of fixes, new goodies, emulator updates and extra hardware support.

Minetest 5.9.0 brings performance improvements, a godrays shader and work towards SDL2

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

The latest release of Minetest with version 5.9.0 is out now, bringing new features and work towards using SDL2 for this free and open source voxel game engine.

Wine 9.15 brings more ODBC Windows drivers work and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

The Wine 9.15 development release is now available as there's continued work on ODBC Windows drivers and the usual assorted bug fixes.

ChimeraOS 46-2 brings full ASUS ROG Ally X support

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

Another update for the handheld and couch gaming Linux distribution ChimeraOS, with version 46-2 out now bringing full ROG Ally X support.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.15 has expanded GOG support, EA games from Epic Store support

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

A big release for the Heroic Games Launcher team has landed, version 2.15.0 is out now with some necessary bug fixes and some big new features to help you get all your games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

The Elder Scrolls: Arena re-implementation OpenTESArena gets a graphics code overhaul

By Liam Dawe, Aug 9

Seems like this project is coming along nicely, and I do very much love seeing classics get revived with open source game engine re-implementations. OpenTESArena for The Elder Scrolls: Arena has a new release out.

Decky Loader plugins should no longer cause bootloops on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Aug 9

The Decky Loader developers have announced that their plugin system for Steam Deck should no longer cause bootloops with the latest pre-release build.