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Get a whole lot of games in Humble's Türkiye and Syria Charity Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Bundle has put up a new bundle of games to support relief efforts for Türkiye and Syria, after they were recently devastated by earthquakes.

Godot Engine 4.0 out now plus console porting is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there's also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.

Linux Mint set to improve Flatpak support and Warpinator security updates

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest Monthly News post, Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre detailed some upcoming changes and improvements to the popular Linux distribution.

LEGO Bricktales to get a free Easter content update

By Liam Dawe,
The absolutely charming building-puzzle adventure game LEGO Bricktales is getting a free content update ready for Easter.

Apex Legends banning some Linux players, keep an eye out Steam Deck players

By Liam Dawe,
It appears that Apex Legends from Respawn and EA has started banning some players on Linux, and while the Steam Deck uses Linux too it seems nearly all the bans were desktop Linux players.

Steam Deck hits over 8,000 games Playable or Verified, plus February's most-played

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's popular Linux-powered gaming handheld, the Steam Deck, has officially crossed over the 8,000 mark for games noted to be Playable or Verified.

JSAUX makes more Steam Deck backplate colours available

By Liam Dawe,
Want to give your Steam Deck a bit more colour and customization? The new coloured translucent backplates from JSAUX are available to order.

NVIDIA 530.30.02 mainline Beta driver rolls out, plus a new Vulkan Beta driver

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has released two new Beta drivers for Linux recently, so here's your usual rundown of what's new and changed.

Collabora announce 'Mercury' hand-tracking for open source XR runtime Monado

By Liam Dawe,
After working on it for a while, Collabora developer Moses Turner has announced that their "Mercury" hand-tracking for Monado, their open source XR runtime, is now ready for use.

Paradox plan announcements next week, like a new game from Cities Skylines dev

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive announced that on Monday, March 6th they will be announcing a whole bunch of new games and expansions.

Inventory management roguelike Backpack Hero releases 1.0 in May

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in Early Access with Native Linux support and rated Steam Deck Playable, the inventory management roguelike Backpack Hero is releasing in full in May.

OpenRA gets a big new stable release, lots of fun for classic RTS fans

By Liam Dawe,
After multiple testing releases, OpenRA for the playing the classics Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 has now released a major upgrade.

Fury Unleashed got a nice update to get it Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Fury Unleashed, a fast-paced action roguelike from Awesome Games Studio, recently had a rather nice upgrade for Steam Deck players.

Proton Experimental fixes up Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, No Man's Sky

By Liam Dawe,
Proton Experimental from Valve has been upgraded fixing up some more problematic games for Steam Deck and Linux Desktop.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 27: Lost Souls

By Hamish,
I have mentioned before how I was unable to get Dave Taylor's original port of Doom to work as it was built as an outdated a.out binary rather than ELF. Since then, I stumbled on an article by Jason Heiss that describes how to load the binfmt_aout kernel module to attain a.out binary support, as well as installing packages from earlier Red Hat Linux releases to provide the necessary libraries.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions

By Liam Dawe,
Making the rounds recently is a proposal being made to add in payments, donations and subscriptions options to Flathub.

Kubuntu Focus announce the second-gen mini desktop Focus NX

By Liam Dawe,
Need some power in a small box with full Linux support? The Kubuntu Focus team recently revealed their second-generation Focus NX.

Wayland driver for Wine is getting closer

By Liam Dawe,
Back late last year, Collabora developer Alexandros Frantzis blogged about a whole lot of work going into getting full Wayland support for Wine and now a big first step towards it being included in Wine is happening.

Beat Hazard 3 gets a "Huge" optimization for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Beat Hazard 3 is a music-driven twin-stick shooter currently in Early Access, and it should now play a whole lot better on Steam Deck.

ScummVM 2.7.0 'The Real Slim Shader' supports even more classics

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM 2.7.0, The Real Slim Shader, is officially out now bringing more compatibility for retro titles to modern platforms so here's what's new.