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Steam Deck desktop mode plus other stores — Epic Games Store
You have your shiny new Steam Deck, which I’ve gone over in an initial look on — but what about desktop mode apps and other stores? I’ve also been testing that with the Epic Games Store.
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Heroic Games Launcher 2.2 (plus a hotfix) adds GOG support
Heroic Games Launcher is truly becoming one of the best game managers available for Linux. Not only does it support Epic Games, it's just expanded to cover GOG too.
Inspired by Cube World, the free Veloren 0.12 release is out
Fully free and open source, Veloren continues to expand their inspiration from Cube World and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with version 0.12 out now.
Retro x86-based machine emulator 86Box v3.2 brings Linux support
86Box is a new one to me but perhaps some readers might be interested in it. It's an IBM PC system emulator that specializes in running old operating systems and software. Now with version 3.2 it's available for Linux.
XWayland 22.1 is out with DRM lease support helping VR on Linux
XWayland, the way to run older games and applications that don't yet have native Wayland support has a brand new release out, bringing new features.
Wine manager Bottles brings easy app installers, tons of other improvements
Bottles is the very promising free and open source application to help you directly manage installing things with Wine, the compatibility layer to run Windows apps and games on Linux.
NVIDIA upgrades their open source Image Scaling SDK
Back in November 2021, NVIDIA released their free and open source Image Scaling SDK for game developers to add in a spatial upscaler that can run on any modern GPU - and they've continued improving it.
Proton 7.0 out with Easy Anti-Cheat improvements, more games for Linux & Steam Deck
Valve has today released a huge upgrade to Proton, the compatibility layer for Linux that allows Windows games to run.
OBS Studio 27.2 is out bringing Flatpak support and much more
OBS Studio is the incredibly popular free and open source video capture and livestreaming software. A huge new release is now available with plenty of Linux improvements.
Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt gets a few tweaks in v0.3.2.5
Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt allows Linux gamers to run various visual enhancement features, along with support for running various Reshade Fx shaders.
Lutris 0.5.10 Beta 1 is out with Origin and Ubisoft Connect integration
Ready to test some more awesome open source software? Lutris 0.5.10 Beta 1 is out, so this is your chance to help make the next release a polished one.
Wine 7.2 spilled out with the beginnings of a WMA decoder
The dedicated team building up the Windows compatibility layer Wine have release a new development version with Wine 7.2 now available.
ChimeraOS 30 is out with big OneXPlayer improvements
ChimeraOS continues to provide a full-screen console-like Linux experience for those that want it, and ChimeraOS 30 is now live with some great upgrades.
KDE Plasma 5.24 is out now and what a beauty it is
KDE has today released the Plasma 5.24 desktop, filled with goodies across the whole thing and this is an LTS release (long-term support) that will continue seeing updates until a final Plasma 5 release after which Plasma 6 succeeds it.
Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 adds more content support
fheroes2 is a constantly improving game engine reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II. A new version was just released recently and it's become the absolute best way to play this classic.
Open source evolution sim Thrive adds a new cell to grow with
Currently in Early Access, Thrive is an impressive scientific evolution sim developed in Godot Engine that continues to mature with a new version up.
Online multiplayer for OpenMW (Morrowind) TES3MP is alive again
OpenMW is a fantastic open source game engine reimplementation for Morrowind, plus there's the online fork of TES3MP which has sprung back to life with a new release.
FEX-Emu is a promising project for gaming on 64bit Arm
Want to play more games on Arm devices? Projects like Box86 and Box64 do already exist but is there a better option? FEX-Emu sounds like it's going to be another great open source way to do what you want.
RPG game engine Flare gets improved gamepad support, fonts and more in v1.13
Flare is a free and open source game engine for creating RPGs, plus it also has its own Empyrean Campaign to play through and it continued to get enhanced to be a bit more modern.
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux gets some more fixes
Readying up for the onslaught of users on the Steam Deck who will probably want to play some of their Epic Store loot, the free and open source Heroic Games Launcher has a new bug fix release up.