The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live
The moment I'm sure plenty of our readers have been waiting for: the Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live.
Category: Misc
Collabora's work on a Wayland driver for Wine is coming along nicely
To end the year the open source consulting firm Collabora, who often works with Valve, has written up a fresh post with a video to show off their Wayland driver for Wine.
The itch.io Winter Sale is now live with plenty of indies
Ready to pick up some more games to stay warm with this Winter? If you enjoy indie games then it may be worth take a look over on itch.io with their Winter Sale.
My favourite 2021 games played on Linux
Here we are, the year is ending so here's a few of what I consider to be my favourite games played on Linux that had a release during 2021.
Intel has boosted their commitment to Blender as a Corporate Patron
Intel was already a pretty high backer of the free and open source 3D creation suite Blender but now they're going in for even more as a Corporate Patron.
The beautiful Linux distro elementary OS 6.1 is out now
elementary OS is easily one of the best looking Linux distributions around, with such an incredible attention to the finer details and a big new release is up now.
This hilarious Doom mod takes aim at NFTs
NFTs, they're freaking everywhere and NFT bros have become some of the most annoying people on the planet and so of course there's now a Doom mod to mock them.
Proton Experimental sees new fixes for DEATHLOOP, Forza Horizon 5
Valve has put out another small upgrade to Proton Experimental, with it focused on improving a couple of popular games.
Red Hat donates $10,000 to OBS Studio, their Flatpak to be official for Linux
Little bit of good news to start Tuesday, as the excellent livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio got another good donation recently, this time from Red Hat.
Steam Labs Experiment 13 upgrades the store tag hubs
Valve are always tweaking something on Steam and their latest experiment is an upgrade to the Store Hubs, the areas on Steam where you can browse through all the random tags.
Wine 7.0 gets a second Release Candidate with bug fixes
The Wine team has put out a second Release Candidate for what will eventually turn into a Wine 7.0 stable release in early 2022.
Two Tribes open sourced their game engine for RIVE and Toki Tori 2+
Netherlands based Two Tribes is an indie game developer who worked on titles like RUSH, EDGE, Toki Tori, RIVE and more just open sourced their game engine.
VAXEE offer up some really great mice, thoughts on the VAXEE Outset AX
VAXEE recently got in touch to send out some devices for testing, and I've come away massively impressed by their mice.
Amazon hiring for Proton / Wine and Linux developers for streaming service Luna
Despite Luna originally using Windows for Amazon's game streaming service, it appears they may be moving over to Linux and they're looking to hire people to work on Proton / Wine and give back to open source.
Pop!_OS 21.10 rolls out with new Application Library
System76 has rolled out Pop!_OS 21.10 today, the latest major upgrade to their Ubuntu-based operating system designed to be used by everyone - professionals and gamers alike.
Linux Mint 20.3 'Una' gets a Beta release
For those of you who love the taste, Linux Mint has a new Beta version available for testing the next major release. Linux Mint 20.3 'Una' is available with multiple desktop environments.
Retro game maker GB Studio gets a big upgrade
Want to make retro games? How about making games on Linux that can be played on a Game Boy or the upcoming Analogue Pocket? GB Studio is your new best friend and a huge new release is out.
Use Wine for gaming on Linux? Try out Bottles
Bottles isn't exactly a new Linux application but it's one I had only heard about recently. It's been advancing a lot in the last year and it's really looking great.
Linux needs to be pre-installed on more hardware to hit mainstream
There's always arguments across many angles on what exactly Linux needs to succeed to become more mainstream and the answer, as we've long said, is pretty simple.
Get Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun free during the GOG Winter Sale
GOG have put up their Winter Sale and it's a good chance to not only grab some cheap games but also get a free copy of the truly excellent Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.
- Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
- Heroic Launcher for Epic, GOG, Amazon games on Linux / SteamOS v2.17 released
- The 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller is a top premium-feeling controller
- Dune: Awakening will have BattlEye enabled for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
- SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source
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