Category: Misc

Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.

ChimeraOS 43 has been released today adding in support for running this SteamOS inspired Linux distribution on the ASUS ROG Ally handheld.

ProtonUp-Qt is the app that allows you to install the likes of GE-Proton, Wine-GE, Luxtorpeda and more for Steam, Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher and Boxtron.

You may have noticed the website acting up a little lately, well that's because it's well into its teens now. Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux, the tiny little site I thought no one would visit but here we are 14 years later.

The latest Humble Choice seems to have a pretty nice set of headline games, so here's what to expect for July 2023 and what compatibility you'll see on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

It was one of my regular readers, Grzegorz Budny, that let me know about the driving simulation Odyssey by Car first released by the German independent developer Oliver Hamann back in 2001. The stylized vector looking graphics lend a timeless quality, leaving it a shame that more players will not get to experience the odyssey.

The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for June 2023, and it shows just how much the Linux share is now influenced by the Steam Deck.

You somehow need even MORE games? Okay well here's the newest Fanatical Trinity Bundle with some indie gems.

GE-Proton has another release available (two actually) so here's a run over what's new for this community-maintained translation layer.

Another month down and Valve has announced what's been popular over the last month, so let's take a look at the top Steam Deck list for June 2023.

One final free game is here for you during the GOG Summer Sale 2023! You can now get Beholder 2 from Warm Lamp Games and Alawar Premium.

With the Steam Summer Sale 2023 now in full swing, and with a big discount on the Steam Deck, it has risen back up the Steam charts.

The fourth part of an ongoing series of submission to Wine to get full Wayland support has been merged in.

Here's an interesting one on Steam publishing for you. Valve appear to be clamping down on AI art used in games due to the murky legal waters. UPDATE: Valve gave a statement.

Today the Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live once again, where a great many developers put up big discounts for their games. You know the drill right? Your wallet is already hiding from you.

After building up their in-house manufacturing capabilities with their custom Thelio desktop and their Launch keyboards, System76 are now expanding into PC cases for everyone.

I'm currently keeping an eye on the SHARGE Disk, a really small M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure that can plug directly into the Steam Deck (and many other devices).

Do you own a Corsair keyboard or mouse? Well you should take a look at ckb-next, which just had a new release bringing support for even more new hardware.

Have little time? Always on the go? Need a refresher of recent Steam Deck news? Got you covered here, come get your little fix.