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Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

It appears that Valve aren't stopping their push to improve Linux gaming, as they just recently hired another developer to help improve open source graphics drivers.

Play the classic Super Smash Bros Melee online on Linux with Slippi

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2020

Super Smash Bros Melee, the 2001 title originally on the Nintendo GameCube is something of a classic and to this day it remains really popular. So popular, it has a dedicated project to play it online.

PSP emulator PPSSPP has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

Remember the PSP? The classic Sony handheld lives on thanks to open source with the PPSSPP emulator.

We're giving away two copies of 3dSen PC

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

Want to try out the incredibly unique 3dSen PC emulator? Well, we have two Steam keys available thanks to a reader and perhaps one of them might have your name on it.

Incredible emulator 3dSen PC converts classics into 3D and it's out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2020

What can only be described as pure programmer sorcery, the emulator 3dSen PC is out now and breaths new life into many classic NES games and it's brilliant.

3dSen PC will turn classic NES games into 3D on June 19

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2020

3dSen PC is quite magical. An emulator that not only runs classic NES games, it changes the way you play them and it now has an Early Access release date.

Game manager 'Lutris' has a new release with initial Humble Bundle and VKD3D support

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2020

Lutris, the excellent free and open source game manager for Linux has a fresh release up with some brand new and big features that made it in.

Valve have a new Beta installer for the Linux Steam Client for the brave tester

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2020

Valve continue to push Linux gaming forward and today they have a new Beta installer available to try for the Steam Client.

3dSen NES emulator gives classics some 3D depth and it's pretty awesome

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2020

3dSen, an upcoming Emulator currently in development is now going through some Beta testing. Unlike some other Emulators, it doesn't just support old games, it aims to redefine them.

RetroArch to have the emulation 'Cores' as DLC when it releases on Steam, plus big updates

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

The team behind RetroArch, the open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators (and a lot more like open source game engines), have stated their plans for handling the various emulators it works with for the Steam release.

Another progress report is up for RPCS3, the PlayStation 3 Emulator

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

The volunteers behind the status updates of the PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 have a new report available, with RPCS3 now up to 1,431 titles playable which is amazing.

Dreamcast emulator Flycast adds a Vulkan renderer

By Liam Dawe, 12 Dec 2019

There seems to be quite a lot of interest in Vulkan lately, as more projects begin using it. Now we have the Dreamcast emulator Flycast adding Vulkan support.

The open source Nintendo Switch Emulator 'yuzu' now has a Vulkan renderer

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2019

The emulation scene never ceases to amaze me. The Nintendo Switch Emulator, yuzu, now had a Vulkan renderer to hopefully boost performance.

RetroArch is getting hardware video decoding, manual content scanning and more

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2019

The team behind the RetroArch front-end used with emulators, game engines and media players have announced that it will be getting proper hardware accelerated video decoding soon.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is coming along quickly with their August progress report up

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2019

Delayed as usual due to the progress reports being done by contributors, the team working on the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have another post up to show off more incredible progress.