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Minigalaxy, the FOSS Linux client for GOG adds support for Wine
While GOG don't support their own Galaxy client on Linux (yet?), work continues by the community on Minigalaxy, a streamlined free and open source Linux client for GOG.
Category: Apps
Linux game manager 'Lutris' has a sweet new build up - better Wine support, new DXVK handling
Lutris is probably in my top 5 of free and open source Linux apps, as it's made gaming outside of Steam many times easier on Linux.
FOSS app 'GOverlay' for managing Linux gaming overlays adds early support for vkBasalt
GOverlay is fast becoming an incredibly useful free and open source Linux gaming application, giving you an easier time working with the MangoHud overlay and now the start of vkBasalt support too.
Add crazy effects to your images with 'PhotoMosh', a powerful but easy to use free web app
We interrupt your regularly scheduled gaming news to mention PhotoMosh, a fun and quite powerful free web application to mess around with your images. It's actually pretty cool.
'Tilesetter' is a program for developers that aims to optimize the tileset generation process; demo available
Tilesetter seems to be a very handy tool for game developers, allowing you to focus on making the perfect tileset.
Game manager 'Lutris' has a new release with initial Humble Bundle and VKD3D support
Lutris, the excellent free and open source game manager for Linux has a fresh release up with some brand new and big features that made it in.
Valve have a new Beta installer for the Linux Steam Client for the brave tester
Valve continue to push Linux gaming forward and today they have a new Beta installer available to try for the Steam Client.
A new stable Steam Client update is out with plenty of Linux fixes
Valve continue to polish the Steam Client with a bunch of recent changes that have been in Beta for a little while now pushed out for everyone. Here's what's new.
If you have problems with the Paradox Launcher, there's now an open source alternative
Cities: Skylines, Stellaris and more now use the Paradox Launcher and for quite a lot of people it has caused some problems. Now, there's an alternative.
RetroArch 1.8.5 is out replacing the XMB UI with Ozone plus lots of bug fixing
RetroArch is a wonderful and expansive front-end for tons of emulators and other gaming engines, it's just had a fresh release that entirely replaces the user interface.
Linux gaming overlay MangoHud and the GOverlay app for managing it both have new releases up
MangoHud, the awesome Linux overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan games has another new release. GOverlay, the FOSS application designed to make configuring MangoHud easy has also been refreshed.
OBS Studio 25.0 is out with lots of new features for video creators
The free and open source video livestreaming and capture software, OBS Studio, has a brand new release now available with lots of new goodies to play with.
Unity 2020.1 beta is out and they're offering a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU for bug reports
The Unity team have put out the first Beta for Unity 2020.1 which will form the first of two "TECH stream" releases for this year.
GOverlay, the open source Linux app for managing overlays is progressing quickly
GOverlay, the open source Linux application which currently works to help you really easily configure MangoHud has progressed quickly since the initial release.
A sweet new build of 'Minigalaxy' is out for easy GOG game managing on Linux
No GOG Galaxy? Not so much of a problem right now with handy open source apps like Minigalaxy and a big new release is up.
GOverlay - a new open source Linux app for managing overlays like MangoHud
With the Vulkan API making the creation of Linux gaming overlays like MangoHud easier, having a way to manage them without editing a configuration file would be sweet - enter GOverlay.
Advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool 'Basemark GPU' has a new build out
Back in 2018 Basemark announced and released Basemark GPU, their advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool. Last week, they release a huge update to it.
A new Steam Client Beta is up, fixing some annoyances for Linux users
Valve have released a fresh update to Steam for those of you testing out the Beta, and with it comes some fixes for annoyances.
OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 is out to further enhance video livestreaming and recording
OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 has been released as the first step towards a new stable version, and it comes with some fancy new features for all platforms.
OBS Studio gains another big sponsor with Facebook
Do you make videos? Livestream? Well, you probably know of or use the cross-platform open source OBS Studio and how it's basically the go-to for such things and they just gained another huge sponsor.
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