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Survive an elevator trying to eat you in co-op horror KLETKA when it releases February 19

By Liam Dawe,
A bunch of criminals sent down the depths of a massive structure using a living elevator - what could go wrong? Lots and you'll find out in KLETKA.

Discord attempt to put out the fires with a clarification over new age verification

By Liam Dawe,
Discord have released some clarifications around the new forced age verification system coming worldwide next month, as people look to flee the platform.
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GE-Proton 10-30 released with fixes for Arknights Endfield and the EA app

By Liam Dawe,
There's a fresh February 2026 release of the popular community-maintained compatibility layer, with GE-Proton 10-30 available now.

Mewgenics is weird, completely chaotic and it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is officially out now, and it will absolutely annihilate your free time.

Prefixer is a modern alternative to Protontricks that's faster and simpler

By Liam Dawe,
Protontricks is a useful tool for Linux gaming, but it's a bit on the slow and complicated side that Prefixer aims to solve.

Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

By Liam Dawe,
Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.

Physics building game Besiege heads into space with The Broken Beyond expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Besiege is going to the final frontier with the newly announced The Broken Beyond expansion.

KDE Linux gets performance improvements, new default apps and goes all-in on Flatpak

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE developers are working towards the first Beta release of KDE Linux, their own home-grown immutable operating system.

Motorsport Manager revived with a break from SEGA

By Liam Dawe,
Playsport Games announced they've got the rights to Motorsport Manager back from SEGA, and they're already working on updates to the game.

The Khronos Group celebrate 25 years of open standards

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group have released a series of videos today to celebrate 25 years of open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and more.

Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK officially expands to include Direct3D 5 support

By Liam Dawe,
The Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK has version 1.3 out now, which officially expands it to also cover Direct3D 5 support for running more games on Linux.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization

By Hamish,
Civilization: Call to Power is a curious cultural artifact in a number of ways.

Mesa 25.3.5 arrives with bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Over the weekend we saw the release of Mesa 25.3.5, as we near the end of updates to Mesa 25.3 with developers moving onto the upcoming Mesa 26.

Linux kernel 6.19 arrives and the next will be 7.0

By Liam Dawe,
Linus Torvalds announced Linux kernel 6.19 is officially out now and then next is planned to be the big 7.0 release.

Steam Early Access games can now have a planned release date listed

By Liam Dawe,
Answering calls from developers, Valve have tweaked Early Access game pages to allow developers to add a full release date.

Steam game People Playground hit by malware via the Steam Workshop

By Liam Dawe,
Oh dear. People Playground from mestiez / Studio Minus recently had a major problem with malware pretending to be a mod in the Steam Workshop.

Wine 11.2 released with optimizations in PDB loading, support for MSVC constructors

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 11.2 is the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer towards Wine 12 early next year.

Steam Machine & Steam Frame FAQ - RAM and storage crisis to blame for no pricing or dates

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have put up an official explainer on why we haven't gotten released dates or pricing for the new Steam Hardware like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

Steam Beta fixes games from large libraries on Linux / SteamOS showing as not valid on current platform

By Liam Dawe,
Another day, another load of bug fixes coming from Valve for all Steam users and an especially nice one for Linux / SteamOS if you have a lot of games.

GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI

By Liam Dawe,
With GOG under new ownership, they're trying some new things (like generative AI) and they just did an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit.