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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

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.

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.
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New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released a new update to Proton Experimental, their testing ground for getting more Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition gets released on Steam and Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Blizzard released Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition on Steam, a newly upgraded version of the classic action RPG and it's Steam Deck Verified too.

Wireless VR streaming levels up on Linux with the latest WiVRn release

By Liam Dawe,
Have a VR headset and want to do some gaming from your Linux PC? WiVRn has a new release out that should make the experience even better.

Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like the component shortages thanks to AI may have finally hit Valve as in the US, Canada and Asia all models of Steam Deck are completely out of stock.

The 'No ICE in Minnesota' charity bundle is live on itch.io

By Liam Dawe,
Another chance for you to score a whole lot of games, while also supporting charity in the "No ICE in Minnesota" bundle on itch.io.

No Man's Sky Remnant update brings a fancy gravity gun and customizable trucks

By Liam Dawe,
No Man's Sky is gradually turning into a playground, and now you can mess with physics in the No Man's Sky Remnant update.

Mesa 26.0 is out bringing ray tracing performance improvements for AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 26.0 has arrived as the latest new-feature release of open source graphics drivers, and there's a whole lot to be excited about in this one.