ChimeraOS 30 is out with big OneXPlayer improvements
ChimeraOS continues to provide a full-screen console-like Linux experience for those that want it, and ChimeraOS 30 is now live with some great upgrades.
Category: Misc
WRAEK think they can change PC gaming with the Tactonic Pro
The WRAEK Tactonic Pro is currently doing rounds because the team believe they can change gaming, by giving you an ultra-sensitive palm rest that you use in-game for movements.
KDE Plasma 5.24 is out now and what a beauty it is
KDE has today released the Plasma 5.24 desktop, filled with goodies across the whole thing and this is an LTS release (long-term support) that will continue seeing updates until a final Plasma 5 release after which Plasma 6 succeeds it.
Epic Games CEO says a clear No to Fortnite on Steam Deck
Were you hoping to easily play Fortnite on the upcoming Steam Deck? Well, Tim Sweeney the Epic Games CEO has made it clear that it's not going to happen officially.
Steam Deck Previews are up, plus dbrand announce Project Killswitch
The flood gates are beginning to open around the Steam Deck with a few big YouTube channels doing a hands-on preview now live. Plus, dbrand poke fun at Nintendo with their upcoming Steam Deck accessory kit.
Indie store itch.io comes out swinging against NFTs
Not only has Valve banned NFT games from Steam but another store has come out clearly against them, with the official itch.io Twitter account releasing a very clear statement.
FEX-Emu is a promising project for gaming on 64bit Arm
Want to play more games on Arm devices? Projects like Box86 and Box64 do already exist but is there a better option? FEX-Emu sounds like it's going to be another great open source way to do what you want.
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux gets some more fixes
Readying up for the onslaught of users on the Steam Deck who will probably want to play some of their Epic Store loot, the free and open source Heroic Games Launcher has a new bug fix release up.
Linux Kernel getting prepped for the Steam Deck
While it's already known that the Steam Deck will ship with Valve's own SteamOS 3 based on Arch Linux, what about running more standard Linux distributions? It will get easier in a future version of the Linux Kernel.
KDE Plasma continues improving to stop you breaking things
Developer Nate Graham has highlighted more recent work for the KDE Plasma desktop environment (the one the Steam Deck will come with) and it's all sounding great.
Get some quality games and help charity in the F*CK CANCER Bundle
Get some top quality games, while also helping a charity doing good work in the Humble F*CK CANCER Bundle.
Stadia continues the slow downward spiral
A new report from Business Insider has highlighted some continuing changes for Google's cloud gaming service Stadia, and it doesn't exactly sound good - but it's also something that was mostly already announced.
Over 120 titles are now Steam Deck Verified
We're now just three weeks away from the official release date of the Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming machine. The good news is that Verified titles have been growing nicely!
Steam gets a few useful UI tweaks to show Cloud Sync status and Game Install Size
Ahead of the Steam Deck release, it seems the desktop client for Steam is getting a few handy UI changes too.
New Unity developer needed for Inscryption, work may include a Linux port
Do you have experience with the Unity game engine? Well, Daniel Mullins Games are hiring to continue future development of Inscryption and the job description looked pretty interesting.
Pop!_OS Linux gets better game performance and desktop responsiveness
System76 have done something very interesting with Pop!_OS lately, a change that should give you better performance in games and get a more responsive desktop overall on Linux.
Steam announces changes to sales for devs, next set of sale dates up
Valve has announced that they're doing some changes to how developers do sales, plus the next set of Steam sale dates have been announced.
CodeWeavers advertising for a Wine developer and Linux gaming tester
Looking for a job in the Linux space? Now is your chance! CodeWeavers, the company that sponsors development on the Wine compatibility layer and works with Valve on Steam Play Proton are hiring again.
System76 releases the Kudu featuring AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
If you're in the market for a laptop that combines AMD with NVIDIA, you're in luck with the release of the Kudu from System76.
NVIDIA 510.47.03 is out adding Vulkan 1.3, GeForce RTX 3050 support
Ready for a brand new driver release? NVIDIA has released version 510.47.03 as a new stable update adding in new features, new hardware support and bug fixes.
- SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S
- Retro dungeon crawler Brany Skeldalu gets a Linux version and source code re-release
- SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta has fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go S, booting on Strix Point
- NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux
- CRSED: Cuisine Royale devs confirm end of Linux / Steam Deck support
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