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GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin moves to a more rapid release cycle

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4

The team behind the free and open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin have announced a big change to their plans, along with a new much more rapid release schedule.

The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4

Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

PSA: If you use Bazzite you need to do a manual fix to get updates

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4

Bazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that's great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.

Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app

By Liam Dawe, Jul 2

I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' gets a Beta release

By Liam Dawe, Jul 2

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' has a first Beta release available for testing, built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 it will be supported until 2029.

Flaw in OpenSSH Server nicknamed regreSSHion could cause some problems

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1

If you're dealing with Linux servers, or you have an active OpenSSH Server on your desktop, you may want to look into regreSSHion.

Bazzite 3.5 gets updated NVIDIA drivers, expanded handheld support (including Steam Deck OLED)

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1

Bazzite is one of the best options to get Linux on various gaming handhelds, and the 3.5.0 release is out now that has improvements pretty much everywhere with expanded hardware support.

GE-Proton 9-8 and 9-9 fixes Resident Evil on GOG, various other game fixes

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1

With the original Resident Evil now on GOG and the later games to come, GE-Proton / Proton-GE has a new release out to fix some issues in it and other games.

Proton Experimental has fixes for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Noita mods, MultiVersus and more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 29

Valve released a fresh update to Proton Experimental for June 28th, bringing their usual assortment of game fixes for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Wine 9.12 brings a rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine, Mono updates

By Liam Dawe, Jun 29

Wine 9.12 has landed bringing the latest development work into a new release for the Windows compatibility layer, part of what makes up Steam Play Proton.

Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

By Liam Dawe, Jun 28

Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader 3.0 gets a first pre-release

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27

Decky Loader is a very popular tool to add plugins to the Steam Deck Gaming Mode, and Decky Loader 3.0 should be a big improvement.

COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26

System76 are making a bit of a splash today, ahead of the Alpha release of their new desktop environment named COSMIC.

Warzone 2100 version 4.5.0 Beta enhances support for campaign mods, improved multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

One of my favourite RTS games, Warzone 2100, just keeps on getting better thanks to it being open source. A major new Beta has been released that has some really great improvements for both singleplayer and online play.

Flathub continues growing with over 2 billion downloads recorded

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

Flathub, the main front-end for Flatpak packages, which serves various applications and games to many different Linux distributions and Steam Deck has surpassed 2 billion downloads.

Mesa gets a nice performance boost for Proton games with various videos

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has another blog post up and Merge Request ready for Mesa, the set of open source graphics drivers, which gives a big boost to performance for Windows games with various videos.

NonSteamLaunchers adds support for EmuDeck, SteamRomManager and fixes Battle.net

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24

NonSteamLaunchers is one of the simplest ways to get various other stores like Battle.net, Epic, GOG and more on Steam Deck / Linux has a fresh release adding some useful features.

VKD3D-Proton v2.13 has updates for OpenVR / OpenXR, performance improvements + more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 21

Hans-Kristian Arntzen today announced the released of VKD3D-Proton version 2.13, the Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan translator for Proton.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Helldivers 2, Ghost of Tsushima and more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 20

Another update to Proton Experimental landed today, June 20th, from Valve bringing some game fixes across desktop Linux and Steam Deck.

DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans

By Liam Dawe, Jun 20

VR fans rejoice! The GNOME project has finally pulled in DRM lease protocol support today, something required for getting VR under GNOME on Wayland working well.

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