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The new Library Mode in Wine manager Bottles looks awesome

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2022

Here's an update I missed recently somehow. Bottles, the application you can use for managing various Windows games and apps installed with Wine had a fresh update with a fancy new Library Mode.

OBS Studio 28.0 rolled out with HDR, 10-bit, Qt 6 and more

By Liam Dawe, 2 Sep 2022

OBS Studio is the free and open source video content creation kit for livestreaming and recording. Probably the best software in the world for it and OBS Studio 28.0 is out now.

Heroic Games Launcher gets an emergency hotfix for Epic Games Store logins

By Liam Dawe, 1 Sep 2022

Recently it seems something changed over on the Epic Games Store and so third-party programs trying to login like the Heroic Games Launcher would fail. Thankfully a fix was found.

Lutris adds Amazon Games integration, plus Flatpak finally out (good for Steam Deck)

By Liam Dawe, 26 Aug 2022

Lutris, the all encompassing game manager for installing games from various stores and services (both Native and with Wine / Proton) has a new version out. Plus, the Flatpak is finally ready, making it real easy to run on Steam Deck.

CrossOver 22 released for running Windows apps and games on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2022

CodeWeavers, the company that works on Proton with Valve and supports Wine development, has announced the released of CrossOver 22.0.0.

Valve testing new mobile Steam app with QR codes for sign ins

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2022

Valve are now testing a new version of the Steam app for Android and iOS, which comes with a much more modern design and a QR code login system too.

ProtonUp-Qt for easy GE-Proton installs on Linux and Steam Deck v2.7.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, 23 Aug 2022

ProtonUp-Qt is a simple and great way to manage the likes of GE-Proton (previously known as Proton GE), the Luxtorpeda compatibility tool for Native Linux game engines and more.

Wine compatibly layer manager Bottles adds vkBasalt improvements, vmtouch cache

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2022

Bottles is easily the most simple way to manage installing and running Windows games and apps on Linux outside of Steam. A new release is out now with plenty of useful tweaks.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.4.0 is out with GOG Cloud Save support

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2022

Heroic Games Launcher enables you to download games on Linux and Steam Deck from both the Epic Store and GOG. A big new release is out now with some massive new features.

Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2022

Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets Save States support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2022

A huge advancement for the PlayStation 3 emulator project RPCS3 as it now has support for Save States, which is pretty awesome.

OBS Studio 28.0 Beta 1 brings Linux improvements, lots of new features

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2022

OBS Studio is getting another major version bump with OBS Studio 28.0 Beta 1 now available for testing. Lots of big features included in this one, plus some nice Linux client updates.

Steam gets support for Nintendo Online classic controllers

By Liam Dawe, 1 Aug 2022

Valve recently released an update for the main Steam client, which amongst other things brings support in Steam Input for the Nintendo Online classic controllers.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.6.8 out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Aug 2022

MangoHud is probably one of my favourite open source projects giving Linux gamers a fancy HUD to display various performance metrics in a nice overlay. Version 0.6.8 is out now!

Wine manager app Bottles makes rolling back configs real easy

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2022

Bottles is the free and open source app that allows you to easily manage Wine, the Windows compatibility layer on Steam Deck and Linux. Another new version is live, with a whole new versioning system to help you roll back changes.

GameMode performance tool from Feral Interactive version 1.7 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2022

GameMode, the system optimization tool from Feral Interactive recently had a new small release put up.

GOverlay for configuring the MangoHud performance overlay new release out

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jul 2022

MangoHud is a great performance overlay for Linux, one that's used on the Steam Deck too and GOverlay helps you configure it really easily. A new release is out with GOverlay 0.9.

Heroic Games Launcher adds GOG Cloud Saves, Epic Overlay support, anti-cheat helpers

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

The Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games and GOG on Linux has a huge new Beta release (plus a bug fixes for the stable build) with loads of fancy new features.

Wine manager Bottles default runner now based on Valve's Wine fork and Proton

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2022

Bottles is a thoroughly great application for managing Windows applications and games on Linux. It's fast moving and a new release is out with their new default runner called Soda, which is based on Valve's fork of Wine and Proton patches.

You should avoid the stock Firefox install on Steam Deck as it's badly outdated (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2022

For all the pros of the Steam Deck like the full KDE Plasma desktop mode, there's a bit of a sore spot with Valve being too slow to update some of the included software. ARTICLE UPDATED.

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