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Splitgate Season 0 launches with a new Contamination game mode, new map and more

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2021

Splitgate, the huge free to play first-person shooter with portals from 1047 Games announced recently that it shall remain in Beta for the foreseeable future and now Splitgate Season 0 has officially launched.

Humble Best of Stealth Bundle has HITMAN 1 & 2, Aragami and more

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2021

Ready for another bundle of treats? You better be quiet on this one, it's all about stealth and there's some good games included in it.

Happy Birthday to Linux, 30 years strong

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2021

It was on this day 30 years ago that a younger Linus Torvalds announced a free operating system to the comp.os.minix group and from there it exploded across servers, desktops and now plenty more.

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Psychonauts 2 releases to great reviews but the Linux support is delayed

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2021

Psychonauts 2 from Double Fine Productions and Xbox Game Studios is out now for Windows but the native Linux support has been delayed with no current ETA.

NVIDIA DLSS for Proton + Linux with DirectX 11 / 12 lands in September

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2021

NVIDIA announced today an expansion of RTX and DLSS for plenty of Windows games, and for Linux users there's something exciting coming too: NVIDIA will hook up DLSS with DirectX 11 and 12 with Proton in September.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is out and works right away on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2021

Aliens: Fireteam Elite from Cold Iron Studios is a brand new co-op third-person shooter, which is out officially today and it works right away on Linux with Steam Play Proton.

CodeWeavers still hiring for a 'General Wine Developer' to work on Wine and Proton

By Liam Dawe, 21 Aug 2021

CodeWeavers announced recently they need a bit of help on finding more developers, with a spot still currently open for a 'General Wine Developer' who will work on Wine and Proton.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-6 is out now with lots of fixes and new game support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Aug 2021

Following on from the Release Candidate testing earlier this month, Steam Play Proton 6.3-6 has rolled out to improve Windows games running on Linux.

The original Quake got a new enhanced edition, Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda updated for it

By Liam Dawe, 20 Aug 2021

During QuakeCon the original Quake got an enhanced edition released, which Nightdive Studios worked on. It works with Steam Play Proton and you can also use the Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda to play the new content on an open source game engine.

Having VR issues on Linux? You should look to disable async reprojection

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2021

Virtual Reality is still a niche and doing it on Linux is a niche within a niche, that said when it works it's brilliant but there's a few problematic issues that have arisen recently.

Among Us not connecting on Linux with Proton? Here's a simple fix

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2021

Among Us continues to be a very popular game and it can run quite nicely on Linux with Steam Play Proton, however if you have issues with it not connecting or getting a black screen - there's a really simple fix.

Prodeus is set to get co-op support and shows off the character art

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2021

Prodeus is a crowdfunded retro-inspired first-person shooter currently in Early Access and it's set to get a huge upgrade soon with online co-op support.

Proton GE sees another new release pulling in lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2021

Proton GE, the community-built version of the Windows compatibility layer Proton has a new release available and there's quite a lot of fixes included.

The Humble Jackbox Summer Party Bundle is live

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

Ready to party and play some rather silly games? The Humble Jackbox Summer Party Bundle went up and it has good Linux support for the big packs and a few of the standalone games too.

Didn't last long: Back 4 Blood no longer working on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

Well, looks like the previous excitement around Back 4 Blood and the Open Beta for Linux users is over, as it appears whatever they tweaked recently now stops Linux players with Proton.

Valve puts up a Steam Deck trailer and the head of Xbox seems to really like it

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

Valve has remembered they have an official YouTube channel with the release of a new advert for the Steam Deck, plus the Steam Deck gets a nod of approval from an unlikely source.

Wine 6.15 is out seeing more PE library conversions, work for the GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

The latest and greatest development release is available for Wine so you can defeat those Sunday blues with some tasty fresh bottled code. Wine 6.15 brings various new features and bug fixes.

Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu gets much improved performance and rendering accuracy

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

While it's still a real PITA to setup, the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu has released what they call Project Hades, a massive rewrite to their shader decompiler which is a big thing for it.

s&box from Facepunch 'works great' on the Steam Deck but no native Linux plans

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

s&box is the upcoming game from Facepunch Studios that acts as a sequel to Garry's Mod although it won't actually be Garry's Mod 2. Recently Facepunch were asked about Linux support since it uses Valve's Source 2 game engine.

Proton 6.3-6 gets a Release Candidate with new game support and fixes

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

Valve and CodeWeavers are working towards a fresh release of Proton with plenty of goodies including like more games working, and plenty of bug fixes too.

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