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Legendary, the free and open source Epic Games Launcher, has moved to a new organisation

By Liam Dawe,
8
Legendary, the open source launcher that powers the Epic Games integration in the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher has switched hands to keep it going.
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Chiaki-ng the open-source PlayStation Remote Play app gets better streaming quality and stability

By Liam Dawe,
2
The open-source community made PlayStation Remote Play app Chiaki-ng v1.10.0 has rolled out, making it even better to stream games to other systems.
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Steam Beta adds Remote Downloads Management

By Liam Dawe,
12
Making it easier to manage downloads and updates across systems from desktops to Steam Decks and other handhelds, Steam adds Remote Downloads Management.
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OptiScaler tool gets a huge new release with more upscaling and frame generation goodies

By Liam Dawe,
4
OptiScaler is probably one of the most interesting open source tools around, allowing you to upgrade and mix various tech together in lots of games.
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New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit

By Liam Dawe,
25
Valve have been cooking! A new Steam Client Beta is available with something quite special for Linux gamers, as Valve work to continue improving Linux gaming.
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Opera GX is now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
26
The "gaming browser" Opera GX is now available for Linux, although I'm still not sure why you would want to actually use it.
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Firefox v149 is getting a free built-in VPN and other new features

By Liam Dawe,
14
Mozilla are working towards improving your privacy on the web, with Firefox v149 planned for March 24th that brings out their own built-in free VPN.
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If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T

By Liam Dawe,
7
GPU-Z is a popular Windows app to give you a simple readout of your graphics card, and a new Linux alternative GPU-T was announced recently.
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Google will finally release Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices

By Liam Dawe,
6
After years of waiting, Google have finally decided to give ARM64 Linux devices the ability to natively install the Chrome browser.
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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
90
There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.
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OBS Studio 32.1.0 arrives with WebRTC Simulcast support and a new Audio Mixer

By Liam Dawe,
0
If you want to do livestreaming or video recording on Linux, OBS Studio is easily the best free and open source app you can get for it and v32.1.0 is out now.
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Discord rolls out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
14
With the most recent big stable update released for Discord, they rolled out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux making them better than ever.
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CoolerControl v4 adds new security features, brings hardware support and more

By Liam Dawe,
1
Monitor and manage various different cooling devices on Linux with CoolerControl. Version 4.0.0 brings a bunch more advanced features for you.
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Heroic Games Launcher v2.20.1 brings more essential bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
2
Heroic Games Launcher continues to bring improvements to run games from Epic, GOG, Amazon and more on Linux / SteamOS systems with v2.20.1 out now.
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Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners

By Liam Dawe,
7
Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux and emulators too - with multiple new versions released.
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Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options

By Liam Dawe,
25
In the ongoing crazy saga of the internet getting gated behind new age verification laws, Discord are putting on the brakes temporarily.
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Firefox 148.0 arrives with AI controls

By Liam Dawe,
26
As Mozilla promised they would, Firefox version 148.0 has been released and with it you now get to control what generative AI features are enabled or disabled.
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Heroic Games Launcher 2.20.0 brings numerous important bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
1
Heroic Games Launcher is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games Store, GOG and more on Linux / SteamOS - with a new v2.20.0 bug-fix release out now.
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Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more

By Liam Dawe,
20
Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux, with version 0.5.20 out now.
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Prefixer is a modern alternative to Protontricks that's faster and simpler

By Liam Dawe,
14
Protontricks is a useful tool for Linux gaming, but it's a bit on the slow and complicated side that Prefixer aims to solve.
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