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Dolphin is one of my favorite open source projects and the progress they’ve made in the past few years is truly impressive. In their latest project blog post, the developers have outlined a very exciting new feature in the emulator, one which helps mitigate the issue of stuttering.

For the emulation fans amongst our readership, you might be pleased to know that libretro now supports the Wii/GameCube emulator Dolphin.

Galimulator is another fun little find on itch, it's a 'galaxy emulator' where you can watch what happens, or you can decide to take control.

The awesome GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has officially dropped support for the D3D12 API in favour of going all-in with Vulkan.

The developer of the open source Playstation 3 emulator 'RPCS3' has improved Linux support recently.

I decided to extend the submission time for our GOTY awards by one day just to give it a bit more exposure to gather a good list.

2016 has been an absolute knockout year for Linux gaming, let’s have a little talk about what we have achieved.

Not long after the big Mesa 13 release, we have a release candidate ready for a point release. It's an interesting one too, as it will include a performance improvement to the Intel Vulkan driver, as well as assorted bug fixes.

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.22 has many small changes including 25 bugfixes.

This is awesome, Dolphin the big GameCube & Wii emulator has now merged in the code for official Vulkan support.

Little late on this due to inbox spam (too many games getting released!), but it seems Dolphin the GameCube and Wii emulator can now boot every GameCube game in the official library.

On the github pull request to bring in the Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator, it now reads as feature complete.

RetroArch now has a pre-alpha Vulkan renderer for their N64 emulator. This is pretty cool to see and hopefully it helps performance.

I love emulators, I think they are a fantastic way to keep old platforms alive. Even with the grey area around roms I think they are really interesting. Dolphin is now working on a Vulkan backend.

The Wine team released today third stable release of their software. Version 1.8.2 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.

If you didn't know already, there's actually an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver which could make it far more useful outside of Steam.

For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.

Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.

Just a heads up guys, Magicka 2 looks like it could land on Linux this month. A developer mentioned it's undergoing final bug fixes and performance improvements.

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.47 have many small changes including 48 bugfixes.