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Looks like EA might be banning Linux gamers using Wine to play Battlefield V

By Liam Dawe,
A heads up: there's been reports of people being banned by EA and having EA claim their ban will stay, for playing Battlefield V with Wine + DXVK.

Minigalaxy, a new open source simple GOG client for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Find getting your Linux games from GOG a bit of a hassle since they don't support Galaxy on Linux yet? Enter the free and open source application Minigalaxy.

Supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' gets an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like Epic Games continue to open their wallet as shortly after Ore LLC were given one for Ira, Senscape have announced they've also been approved for an Epic MegaGrant to finish up ASYLUM.

Krita, the FOSS painting program gets an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe,
Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too.

Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2019, an end of year review

By Liam Dawe,
2019 is coming to a close, it's been a pretty wild year for Linux gaming that's for sure! Here's some thoughts on the year and what to expect for 2020.

D3D10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.4.6 released

By Liam Dawe,
Another cleanup point-release is out for the Direct3D 10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK, with 1.4.6 bringing in some bug fixes.

The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper is here

By Liam Dawe,
Your Sunday paper has arrived, come pick up a copy and see what you might have missed out on lately.

Epic Games have awarded the FOSS game manager Lutris with an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe,
The Lutris team announced yesterday that Epic Games have now awarded them a sum of money from the Epic MegaGrants pot.

Lutris game manager 0.5.4 released with Python 3.8 support and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Managing games across multiple stores, emulators and compatibility layers doesn't need to be a hassle. Lutris takes the majority of that annoyance away and a big new release is now available.

D9VK 0.30 'Froglet' is blowing out the cobwebs ready for Halloween

By Liam Dawe,
Joshua Ashton has pushed out a large update to D9VK, the DXVK-based layer that translates Direct3D9 to Vulkan for use with Wine.

DXVK 1.4.1 is out fixing issues with Batman: Arkham City, Hitman 2 and Ni no Kuni Remastered

By Liam Dawe,
The fresh releases just don't stop rolling off the production line recently. Developer Philip Rebohle announced the DXVK 1.4.1 update tonight to clear up some issues from the recent big release.

If you can't login to World of Warcraft or WoW Classic on Linux, here's a quick fix for now

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Blizzard have been having some issues with World of Warcraft and the newer WoW Classic with them coming under a DDoS attack. Their countermeasures seem to have blocked Linux players in Wine but there's a fix.

Game manager Lutris just had a huge update with D9VK, Discord Rich Presence and more

By Liam Dawe,
Need something to manage all your games from different places? Lutris is pretty handy and it just had a huge upgrade.

DXVK, the awesome D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan translation layer has a new release out

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Philip Rebohle has given the gift of code this weekend, with a new release of DXVK now officially available.

A guide to Steam Play Proton, Valve's tech for playing Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Looking to test the waters with Linux gaming and don't want to lose access to your favourite Windows games? Need to know how games actually run on Steam Deck? Here's a simple no-nonsense guide to actually using Steam Play Proton.

ZED from Eagre Games and Cyan Ventures is out for Linux now, it’s quite an experience (plus an interview)

By Liam Dawe,
ZED, a game that might make your own head spin a bit, as you assume the role of an aging artist whose mind isn’t quite all there. Taken over by a haze of dementia, you will be tasked with piecing together his mind.

DXVK 1.2.1 really does improve Overwatch quite a lot on Linux with NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest release of DXVK 1.2.1 that was released last week, it included a note about improved GPU utilization. They certainly weren’t kidding, with Overwatch now performing even better on Linux with Wine.

DXVK 1.2.1 is out pulling in a few game fixes and possible performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK continues to mature again, with another smaller release out to clean up some remaining issues and improve performance in some situations.

D9VK sees a first actual release for getting Direct3D 9 games running on Vulkan with Wine

By Liam Dawe,
D9VK, the project based on DXVK to provide Vulkan for running Direct3D 9 games in Wine has an actual release now.

You can now easily run the Epic Store on Linux with Lutris, Epic suggests applying for a grant

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to some effort from the team behind Lutris (and Wine of course), you can now run the Epic Store quite easily on Linux.
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