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Proton 6.3-8 gets a first Release Candidate, lots of games working on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Proton release is coming up with Proton 6.3-8 now seeing a Release Candidate ready for more people to test and report issues on.

Ryan Gordon gets an Epic MegaGrant to further improve SDL, helping with next-gen APIs

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like cross-platform game development with SDL is going to get easier, as Ryan Gordon (also known as Icculus) has confirmed an Epic MegaGrant and details what it will be used for.

Valve adds documentation for Steam Deck development, suggests Manjaro Linux for now

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Deck delayed until February 2022, Valve has produced new developer documentation giving a helping hand to devs interested in testing ready for it using Linux.

OPGames donates $300k to open source including Godot Engine and Blender

By Liam Dawe,
OPGames, a company that (as they describe) helps "turn games into investable assets through NFTs" has donated a bunch of monies to a few great open source projects.

The Khronos Group officially announces the Dynamic Rendering extension for Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Recently with the Vulkan 1.2.197 specification update, a new extension popped up that has plenty of developers happy with Dynamic Rendering and now The Khronos Group has formally announced it with a more detailed explanation.

System76 patches APT for Pop!_OS to prevent users breaking their systems

By Liam Dawe,
There's been a huge amount of talk recently about switching to Linux for gaming, thanks to the challenge from Linus Tech Tips where two of their people tried the full-switch but it didn't go so well for Linus and Pop!_OS. Now, System76 are trying to improve.

ChimeraOS 27 is out with touch-screen improvements for the AYA NEO

By Liam Dawe,
ChimeraOS (previously called GamerOS) is a Linux distribution aimed at full-screen devices and console styled couch-gaming, much in the same way that SteamOS is.

GOG's Made in Poland sale has lots of goodies going cheap again

By Liam Dawe,
Celebrating Polish creativity in gaming, GOG's Made in Poland sale is live and it's yet another chance to save lots of pennies on some great games.

XWayland 21.1.3 rolls out supporting NVIDIA 495.44 with the GBM API

By Liam Dawe,
Another big tick in the box for switching over to Wayland from Xorg, with the release of XWayland 21.1.3.

Minigalaxy, a simple and open source GOG client for Linux version 1.1 is out

By Liam Dawe,
After many months a fresh release of the rather good Minigalaxy is out. It's a free and open source client for GOG, helping you manage your game library from the DRM-free store.

System76 creating their own desktop environment written in Rust

By Liam Dawe,
Do we need another desktop environment? There's already KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon and the list goes on for a while. System76 at least seem to think another is needed, one they control.

Time to update your Raspberry Pi with the new OS based on Debian 'bullseye'

By Liam Dawe,
It's that time! The Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian) has done a major upgrade moving the package base from Debian buster to Debian bullseye.

Open source game development levels up with Godot Engine 3.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Probably the most exciting free and open source game engine around, Godot Engine has a brand new release available.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 6.21 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
More fixes and new features are ready for another development release with Wine 6.21 going out, the compatibility layer for Windows games and applications.

9 years ago Valve put out a Beta of Steam for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
9 years to the day, Valve officially put up a limited Beta release of the Steam Client for Linux. It's safe to say it's been a rather bumpy but exciting ride.

Supporting Linux / Proton and the Steam Deck with BattlEye is just an email away

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we had announcements from both Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye in regards to Linux, specifically for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer and the Steam Deck and now BattlEye are making it easier.

It's the wild west out there as EVGA confirm GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs stolen from truck

By Liam Dawe,
As if it wasn't bad enough that crypto mining has eaten up GPU reserves, bots keep taking orders as they come out and worldwide shortages all leading to high prices and low stock - now people are going on heists to nick 'em.

Proton Experimental gets Disgaea 4 & Mafia II working plus CEG startup improvements

By Liam Dawe,
More quick fixes coming in recently for Proton Experimental to get even more Windows games to play nicely on Linux with this compatibility layer. - Improve startup time of games using CEG DRM.

The TUXEDO Nano Pro is a powerhouse in a tiny box

By Liam Dawe,
Looking for something small yet mighty? The TUXEDO Nano Pro was just announced and not only is it tiny, it seems like it will pack quite the performance punch with AMD Ryzen.

Valve upgrades Remote Play for Linux in the latest Steam Client Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released another update to the Steam Client Beta and they continue improving Remote Play for Linux players, likely for the upcoming Steam Deck support.
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