OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 adds Video Capture Device (PipeWire) source, plus more AV1 support
A fresh Beta is available for the video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio, with OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 bringing various new features and fixes.
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Mesa 24.0 out now with AMD RADV ray-tracing improvements, more NVIDIA NVK improvements
Eric Engestrom announced the latest open source graphics drivers release with Mesa 24.0 bringing with it a great many improvements and new drivers.
Godot Engine 4.3 will have official Wayland support
2024 is clearly the year of Wayland on the desktop, and now Godot Engine will have official Wayland support with an upcoming new release.
Celeste gets a 3D makeover in Celeste 64 for the sixth anniversary
Celeste is easily one of the most popular indie platformers ever made, and it's still going strong six years later. To celebrate, the developers put up a 3D version with Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain.
GE-Proton 8-29 and GE-Proton 8-30 released with EAC fix and TEKKEN 8 fix
As usual for a new release of GE-Proton, GE-Proton 8-28 came with some issues, and so some hotfixes are available bringing it up to GE-Proton version 8-30.
Qualys discovers glibc flaw that could enable attackers to gain full root access
Well, here's another reminder to keep your PC up to date. Despite Linux being known for security, it's not perfect (no software is) and researchers at Qualys have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library.
What to Expect From Wine on Wayland in 2024
Collabora, the company responsible for developing Wine's Wayland driver and getting it into Wine proper, has just published Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead).
Game Boy homebrew scene alive and well thanks to the open source GB Studio
GB Studio is a free and open source cross-platform game engine, that allows you to make fully-features games for the classic Nintendo Game Boy.
GE-Proton 8-28 released with ULWGL support for non-steam games
We recently had the announcement of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (ULWGL) project, and now GE-Proton has been upgraded to make use of it with GE-Proton 8-28 out now.
The original SteamOS-like Linux distro HoloISO now dead, replaced with immutable version
After a while of no updates to the actual ISO download of HoloISO, the creator of this SteamOS-like Linux distribution has announced the original is now dead. As it's being replaced by the newer immutable HoloISO.
SteamOS-like ChimeraOS 45 released with HDR & controller support for many more handhelds
ChimeraOS is a top choice for people who want a SteamOS-like Linux distribution to run on gaming handhelds, or a couch gaming PC. The latest release is out now with ChimeraOS 45 bringing big changes.
Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development
Following the stable Wine 9.0 release recently, we've just now had the Wine 9.1 development release kicking off another year and starting the road to Wine 10.0 since they do one stable Wine release each year.
Roblox now helping fund Blender development
Blender continues to be a true massive success story for open source, pulling in funding from all sorts of big names and now even Roblox is helping to fund it.
Godot Engine gets a free Nintendo Switch port for game devs
Here's one less reason for game developers to skip over using the free and open source Godot Engine, as it now has a free port available to bring games over to the Nintendo Switch.
Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements
Zeb Figura of CodeWeavers has proposed a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver to help performance of running games and applications designed for Windows on Linux with Wine / Proton.
PlayStation Remote Play for Steam Deck 'chiaki4deck' update fixes framepacing issues
It seems the recent 1.6.0 release of chiaki4deck, the PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck had some issues with performance that v1.6.2 should now solve.
SteamOS alternative Bazzite v2.2 out now with lots of enhancements
Need something similar to SteamOS for your desktop or handhelds like the Steam Deck? The latest release of Bazzite with version 2.2 sounds like it just keeps getting better.
Surreal Engine is an open source reimplementation of Unreal Engine for classic games
Originally called UTEngine, Surreal Engine is a community-made attempt to reimplement enough of the original Unreal Engine to get games like the original Unreal Tournament (99) working.
Proton 8.0-5 brings more HDR gaming to Linux / Steam Deck plus lots of fixes
Proton 8.0-5 is here marking more games as playable, bringing HDR support to even more games and of course the usual bug fixes aplenty to Steam Deck / Desktop Linux.
Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher aims to improve Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck
Oh no! Another launcher! Well, not quite. In fact, Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (ULWGL) is actually meant to be used by existing game launchers like Heroic Games, Lutris and others on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.