Deimos Games shutting, making Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright free to play
Deimos Games announced they're shutting down but their games code is already open source, and now both Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright will be going free to play.
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Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop
Ubuntu is one of the top most used Linux distributions on the desktop and Canonical, the company behind it, has a new blog post up giving some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop.
Proton Experimental fixes Rainbow Six Extraction, EA App, Immortals of Aveum
Valve released a fresh mid-week update to Proton Experimental to fix up issues across multiple games, and once again the dreaded EA App behaving badly once again.
Bazzite is a new Fedora-based Linux for Steam Deck and gaming PCs
Want to try something a little different? Bazzite was recently announced as a custom Fedora 38-based Linux image designed to bring the best Linux gaming to PCs and Steam Deck.
GE-Proton 8-13 and 8-12 released, FSR no longer default and many game fixes
The community maintained GE-Proton has two new releases available, so here's what's changed and improved with the latest versions.
Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new
The open source compatibility layer Wine has a brand new development release available. Here's what's new and changed in Wine 8.14.
Proton Experimental updated for August 18 fixing up more regressions
Valve continue cleaning up regressions with a new Proton Experimental release put up on August 18th, so here's what's been sorted this time.
OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 released supporting Intel QSV on Linux
The free and open source video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio is readying up another release, with OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 now available for testing.
Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets lots of optimizations, fixes for Pikmin 4
The team working on the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have another progress report up, and as usual it's looking mighty fine so here's a little run over what they've done recently.
Happy Debian Day - going 30 years strong
Today is Debian Day and it's quite a special one, because the Debian Project has now been going for 30 years which is a very impressive milestone.
Linux kernel gets an AMD Zenbleed fix for the Steam Deck APU
One security issue I somehow missed back in July was Zenbleed, an issue with AMD CPUs that's getting patched up in the Linux kernel and now the Steam Deck is getting a kernel fix for it too.
AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.
Theme Hospital open source reimplementation CorsixTH 0.67 is out now
The best way to play the classic Theme Hospital on modern systems is here, with the release of the game engine reimplementation CorsixTH version 0.67. Read on for what's new.
Linux Mint planning new 'EDGE' ISO, plus Linux Mint 21.3 due in December
There's some interesting plans ahead coming from the Linux Mint team including a new EDGE ISO for running Mint on newer hardware, info on the next Linux Mint release and their concerns with Ubuntu and Snap.
Proton Experimental fixes Street Fighter 6 and disables NVAPI for Rachet & Clank
A small update for Proton Experimental launched on August 10th for Steam Deck and desktop Linux to fix issues with two problematic games.
Proton Experimental improves Baldur's Gate 3 launcher, Unreal Engine 4 bugs on Intel GPUs
A fresh Proton Experimental release is now live from August 9th, there's some nice looking fixes included so here's what to expect from it for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
OpenRA has a new playtest with another Red Alert mission
The OpenRA developers are steadily working towards the next stable releasing to continue supporting Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 on modern platforms with full cross-platform play.
NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa
Well, it happened! The open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs named NVK has been officially merged into Mesa.
Heroes of Might and Magic III game engine VCMI 1.3 out now
Here's another fun open source reimplementation for you: VCMI is for running Heroes of Might and Magic III on modern systems with plenty of enhancements and a new release just went out.
GE-Proton 8-11 is out now for Linux desktop and Steam Deck
Glorious eggrolls! There's another release of GE-Proton available for Linux desktop and Steam Deck, so here's the details on what's changed.