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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

By Liam Dawe,
Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features.

Proton Experimental adds D3D12 support in OpenXR, Fixes for Foundry and Ubisoft Launcher

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Deck and desktop Linux fans have more testing to do, with Valve releasing a new Proton Experimental update today fixing games, launchers and more.

Mesa 24.1.0 released with big improvements for NVK, Zink, Explicit Sync

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for the next upgrade to open source graphics drivers? Mesa 24.1.0 has now released bringing some big enhancements to many different drivers across AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and others.

King under the Mountain (Mountaincore) went open source as developer shuts down

By Liam Dawe,
King under the Mountain from developer Rocket Jump Technology, a simulation-based settlement-building strategy game, that was going through a big upgrade and re-brand with Mountaincore ended up shutting down and being open sourced.

PERIMETER: Legate Edition released on Steam with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
K-D Lab have revived their classic RTS, with PERIMETER: Legate Edition now available on Steam with full Native Linux support and it's even open source.

Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton

By Liam Dawe,
If you're a fan of cloud gaming, you may want to take a little look into Netris. The developers say it's a GeForce NOW alternative, one you can self-host with it being open source. They're also keen to highlight some Stadia-like elements of it too.

Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded

By Liam Dawe,
Surge Engine is a 2D retro game engine with an included Sonic-like game (Surge the Rabbit) for anyone who wants to make their own platformers like classic Sonic. The developers just released a big new version.

Ubuntu 24.10 roadmap includes Wayland by default for NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe,
It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10.

Wine 9.9 brings more ARM and Wow64 improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 9.9 was released Friday as the latest development release for the Windows compatibility layer to run more apps and games on Linux.

Proton Experimental improves Halo Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and more

By Liam Dawe,
Proton Experimental was updated today by Valve for Steam Deck / Linux PCs which includes some more improvements for gaming.

NVK driver gets DRM Format Modifiers to work with Gamescope in Mesa 24.1

By Liam Dawe,
Just recently NVK, the open source Nvidia Vulkan driver, merged in a new Vulkan extension that is rather important and means it will work properly with Gamescope.

Manjaro 24.0 released with KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 46, Linux kernel 6.9

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro 24.0, based on Arch Linux, has been released pulling in a whole lot of upgrades across every part of the system.

This open source project runs RPG Maker MV/MZ games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
While we have Wine and Proton nowadays, they're not always the best solution and one developer decided to get RPG Maker MV/MZ games on Linux.

Luxtorpeda adds Classic Marathon for playing the Native Linux version via Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Recently the Aleph One team released the classic Bungie shooter Marathon on Steam, as I covered previously, but it's only officially for macOS and Windows despite it supporting Linux. Now you can use Luxtorpeda for it.

Zelda: Majora's Mask gets a PC port with a new open source tool for Nintendo 64 games

By Liam Dawe,
Well, Nintendo aren't going to be happy about this one are they. A developer going by Mr-Wiseguy released an open source tool for bringing Nintendo 64 titles to any platform, and released a PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

CachyOS gets experimental handheld edition for ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion GO and Steam Deck (soon)

By Liam Dawe,
CachyOS, a customizable Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, has a new release available which brings with it an experimental edition for the growing list of PC gaming handhelds like the ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion GO, MSI Claw and coming soon to Steam Deck too.

NonSteamLaunchers Steam Deck plugin in testing, plus a way to Remote Play Together anything

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of NonSteamLaunchers got in touch to mention that a Steam Deck (Decky Loader) plugin is now available for testing, plus the latest release pulling in a handy tool for being able to Remote Play Together anything.

PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck adds easier connections, new resolution options

By Liam Dawe,
Version 1.7.0 is out now for chiaki4deck, the open source community-made PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck bringing in some goodies.

GE-Proton 9-5 released with fixes for Star Citizen, Apex Legends, The Witcher 2

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 9-5 has been released bringing in various upgrades from Valve's official Proton, plus various other patches to fix even more games on Steam Deck / Linux.

Proton Experimental brings controller support for more launchers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released an update to Proton Experimental for Linux and Steam Deck today which continues to expand the controller support available for various games launchers, amongst a bunch of other improvements.
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