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Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux Gaming

By LordDaveTheKind, 24 Jan 2019

Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux, and decided to elaborate a little better about my experience, and share my results and observations with you all.

How to enable Steam Play (Proton) directly in SteamOS

By , 9 Jan 2019

How-To: Enable Valve's Proton Compatibility Tool in SteamOS, since the option isn't actually included directly in SteamOS yet.

The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is impressive again

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

The team behind the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 put out their November progress report at the end of last month, showing some impressive work once again.

Citra, the Nintendo 3DS emulator now has 'Accurate Audio Emulation'

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

Citra, the impressive and quickly moving Nintendo 3DS emulator has a new progress report out and it sounds great.

Emulation

The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is out, impressive stuff

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

RPCS3, the open source PlayStation 3 emulator is coming along nicely. The latest progress report goes over some recent work with various improvements.

Lutris game manager has another release out adding more spit and polish

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2018

Two updates in the space of a week? You spoil us Lutris team. The open source game manager continues spitting and polishing.

Apps

PlayStation 3 emulator 'RPCS3' is coming along nicely with some major improvements

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2018

More glorious news for emulation today with the latest RPCS3 (a PlayStation 3 emulator) giving an update on their progress and it's damn fine too.

Nintendo 3DS emulator 'Citra' sounds like it's coming along rather nicely

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2018

For those who like to use their PC to emulate other platforms, the Citra emulator for the Nintendo 3DS just put out a progress report and it's very promising.

Game porter Ethan Lee gives his thoughts on Valve's Steam Play and Proton

By Liam Dawe, 12 Sep 2018

For today's article I spoke to Ethan Lee, developer of FNA and who has ported something around 40+ titles to Linux. Here's what he thinks about Valve's Steam Play.

Redream is a work in progress Dreamcast emulator that supports Linux, has good compatibility

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jul 2018

For those of you wanting to emulate some classic Dreamcast games on Linux, you're in luck as Redream is an actively developed emulator that works on Linux.

Emulation

PPSSPP emulator now uses Vulkan by default, OpenGL now multithreaded

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

The PSP emulator, PPSSPP, recently had a pretty big release which now defaults to Vulkan as the main renderer.

Citra, the work in progress Nintendo 3DS emulator now has a much improved OpenGL renderer

By Liam Dawe, 14 Mar 2018

For those who love emulation, you might want to know about Citra, a work in progress Nintendo 3DS emulator that we've never written about here before. It seems they've been hard at work too!

The PS3 emulator 'RPCS3' has a new development report out, progress is great

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2018

RPCS3, the open source emulator for the Playstation 3 has a new progress report out and it's looking really good.

Some reflections on radv, the first open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs

By BTRE, 30 Dec 2017

With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.

A look at Linux gaming in 2017, an end of year review and Happy Holidays!

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2017

As the year draws to a close, here's a look at what's happened in the Linux gaming world across 2017.

Editorial

The Libretro Team and other emulators are being ripped off by companies trying to make a quick buck

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2017

This is sad, very sad. A developer from The Libretro Team has written up a blog post on the libretro site asking for us and others to highlight an ongoing problem of code getting ripped off.

PS3 emulator RPCS3 now supports high resolution rendering

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2017

As promised, the developers of PS3 emulator RPCS3 have put out a blog post detailing the work they've been doing recently and it's pretty amazing.

Emulation

The latest progress report for the PS3 emulator 'RPCS3' is out, improved Mesa support and loads more

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct 2017

RPCS3 continues chugging along with major improvements coming in fast. The latest progress report for this PS3 emulator is out to show off some of their recent work.