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There's going to be an online Linux App Summit this November

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2020

Are you interested in helping to make Linux a great end-user platform? Or perhaps you just want to listen to speeches and find out more info from those working on it? Mark November 12-14 on your calendar.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gains online play with PSN Emulation

By Liam Dawe, 10 Aug 2020

It seems a very exciting development will be coming to the next release of the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3.

RetroArch 1.9.0 is out with video player improvements, UI upgrades and more

By Liam Dawe, 10 Aug 2020

RetroArch is practically the go-to for all your emulation needs under one roof and the project just release the latest major upgrade with RetroArch 1.9.0.

GOverlay makes Linux gaming overlay MangoHud even easier to use

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2020

MangoHud has become the go-to way to get a decent readout of game performance with an overlay on Linux, and now with the latest improvements the GOverlay interface has made it much easier to use.

PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 continues to show improvements in latest progress report

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

The quest for better emulation is never quite done, it seems. The open source PS2 emulator saw its first major stable release in years a few months ago and since then more exciting stuff has been under development.

Free and open source 3D creation suite Blender gets funding from Microsoft

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

It feels like FOSS is on a roll lately, with more and more great open source applications seeing funding from big names. Blender is back in the spotlight again, with backing from Microsoft.

ReplaySorcery is an open source instant-replay solution for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Need a project to easily capture the last 30 seconds of action? ReplaySorcery might just be the open source project that you're looking for.

Sorting the mess of vendor specific lighting apps, OpenRGB has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2020

Having something with pretty RGB lighting and want to play with it on Linux? Often the hardware vendor doesn't bother with Linux tools or drivers but the OpenRGB firmly has your back.

Linux game manager Lutris gets a small update for Direct3D 12 using VKD3D-Proton

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2020

The free and open source game manager Lutris had a small update focusing on having better Direct3D 12 support on Linux thanks to it now using VKD3D-Proton.

Tilekit looks like a great tilemap editor with auto tiling

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2020

Some parts of developing games can end up quite tedious like manually placing down tiles for 2D games, and it seems Tilekit might be able to help with that.

Google's UI toolkit Flutter comes to the Linux desktop with help from Canonical

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2020

This might be quite big news! Flutter, the UI toolkit from Google that's used in tens of thousands of Android applications is coming to the desktop. Google and Canonical have announced their push for Linux too.

Playing SpringRTS games on Linux gets easier with Flatpak

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2020

SpringRTS, the free and open source game engine for playing various real-time strategy games is now even easier to get running on Linux.

FOSS Linux game launcher 'Lutris' has a new bug-fix release out

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2020

It's free, it's open source and it helps you manage your thousand+ game library, a fresh update of the game launcher Lutris has arrived.

Craft slick chiptune music for games or fun as FamiStudio adds Linux builds

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

FamiStudio, a pretty fun looking program designed for people making chiptune music and NES homebrewers recently had a big new release and it came with their first Linux build.

Cadmus is a new Linux UI for managing microphone noise suppression

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2020

Are your voice chat friends getting bothered by your fancy new loud mechanical keyboard? Or perhaps you're doing an audio recording and need everything in the background to shutup - enter Cadmus.

PSP emulator PPSSPP has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

Remember the PSP? The classic Sony handheld lives on thanks to open source with the PPSSPP emulator.

Game model maker Asset Forge releases the big 2.0 preview for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

Asset Forge, a seriously useful program to help anyone make models and sprites for their games has a big 2.0 revamp that's in preview and it's now on Linux.