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NVIDIA talk up their transition to open source GPU kernel modules

By Liam Dawe,
Back in May 2022, NVIDIA surprise released their open source Linux GPU kernel modules, and they've steadily been improving their open source support in general. Now they're talking up all the work to promote it a little more.

Blender 4.2 is another crazy-big release

By Liam Dawe,
From game devs to movies and all sorts, Blender is a truly incredible bit of free and open source tech and it has evolved a lot with Blender 4.2 out now.

TheForceEngine adds initial Dark Forces Remaster support

By Liam Dawe,
TheForceEngine is an open source modern "Jedi Engine" replacement supporting Dark Forces, mods, and in the future Outlaws. A new release version 1.10.000 just rolled out.

GameCube emulator Dolphin adds RetroAchievements support

By Liam Dawe,
Another nice win for people who love hitting challenges, as RetroAchievements support has now been added to Dolphin for GameCube.

Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support

By Liam Dawe,
On top of fixing up various issues with Stardew Valley modding, the new Alpha of the cross-platform and open source Nexus Mods app introduces experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support.

Wine 9.13 brings more CMD.EXE engine rewrites, supports loading ODBC Windows drivers

By Liam Dawe,
A little later than they usually put out a release, the Wine 9.13 update is out now bringing more new features and bug fixes to bring better Windows compatibility to Linux.

Linux kernel 6.10 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.10 and with it, plenty of new hardware support and improvements to existing hardware. You know the drill.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.1.1 released

By fheroes2,
The team is excited to present the new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.1.1 for Heroes of Might and Magic II after more than a month of hard work.

RPG Maker MV / MZ for Linux tool now supports TyranoBuilder, RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace

By Liam Dawe,
While it's in need of a better name, the RPG Maker MV / MZ for Linux tool had a new release recently that expanded the support for running games on Linux from TyranoBuilder, and RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace.

PS2 Emulator PCSX2 2.0 is out now and it's a huge upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
PCSX2 is a popular open source emulation for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PCSX2 version 2.0 is now officially available with a great many changes and improvements.

OBS Studio 30.2 is out now with native NVENC encode for Linux, shared texture support

By Liam Dawe,
Video recording and livestreaming tool OBS Studio version 30.2 is officially out now, bringing with it various new features and a nice few Linux improvements too.

Open Source implementation of GOG Galaxy's Communication Service, Comet sees a first release

By Liam Dawe,
While it still has plenty of work ahead of it, Comet is a very promising project to bring the full power of GOG Galaxy over to Linux without needing to run their client in Wine.

Popular multiplayer code editor Zed gets a Linux release

By Liam Dawe,
A little break in the gaming news for a moment to mention that Zed, a "high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter", now has a Linux version available.

AMD releases FidelityFX SDK 1.1.0 with FSR 3.1 and Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for developers and open source, as AMD have now finally put up a new release of the FidelityFX SDK which now has FidelityFX FSR 3.1.

DXVK 2.4 brings D8VK for Direct3D 8 support, frame rate limiter adjustments, lots of game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Another big release of DXVK, the Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D for Linux with Wine / Proton, has arrived. Version 2.4 expands the Direct3D support to version 8 now thanks to D8VK.

NonSteamLaunchers for installing popular stores on Steam Deck has big improvements

By Liam Dawe,
NonSteamLaunchers is a tool for installing various popular game stores / launchers on Steam Deck and desktop Linux with the latest release being a big improvement.

Warzone 2100 - the Campaign Choices Update is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 has a big new upgrade out with the Campaign Choices Update. Making it better than ever and a great time to pick it back up.

VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
While the Linux support of ALVR is still quite rough due to various issues with SteamVR, ALVR is a very promising way to stream VR games to your headset via Wi-Fi and a new release is out now with v20.9.1.

GE-Proton 9-10 adds ELDEN RING EAC fix, pulls in latest DXVK code for d8vk

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 9-10 was released July 7th updating various internal tech as usual to improve gaming on Linux / Steam Deck so here's what's new.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Farlight 84, Shadow Warrior 2, video improvements for 32bit games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released their usual weekend upgrade of Proton Experimental for Linux desktop and Steam Deck, with an assortment of game improvements.
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