Proton Experimental adds VKD3D-Proton 2.4 and some more fixes
Another smaller update to Proton Experimental has arrived, the special version of Proton where the latest enhancements come in before rolling out to the main Proton builds.
Category: Misc
Linux Mint 20.2 is out now with upgrades from 20 and 20.1 possible
The Linux Mint team have now released the latest Linux Mint 20.2 which comes with either Cinnamon, MATE or Xfce.
XWayland 21.1.2 is out now with support for hardware accelerated NVIDIA on the 470 driver
A day many have been waiting for is here. Following on from NVIDIA releasing the NVIDIA 470.42.01 Beta driver that finally supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland, a brand new release of XWayland is out now.
The Machinery game engine launches the Early Adopters program
Our Machinery has announced the availability of their game engine The Machinery with an Early Adopters program that gives a discount on the licensing, although it's free if your team pulls in less than $100K.
VKD3D-Proton 2.4 is out with performance improvements for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan
VKD3D-Proton is the project that Valve funds to act as a translation layer between Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Steam Play Proton and a big new release is out.
Killer Bundle 18 from Fanatical has Shadow Tactics, Warhammer Gladius and more
In need of some new games and don't know where to look? Here to help! Fanatical just recently launched the Killer Bundle 18 and it's a pretty good one.
The International 10 for Dota 2 gets a new location and date
After Valve announced recently that after Sweden decided against allowing it to happen, that they would look elsewhere and they've now settled with Bucharest, Romania at the country's largest stadium — Arena Nationala.
Humble Choice for July is up with a fresh set of games to pick from
Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) is the subscription service from Humble Bundle where each month they give you a fresh set of a games to redeem.
Linux Foundation launches the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard
This could be the start of something truly big for game development (amongst other things), with the Linux Foundation pulling together some huge names to launch the Open 3D Foundation and the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard. UPDATED.
12 years ago we appeared online, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux
12 years ago on July 5, the GamingOnLinux website was created. Who would have thought it would still be going this long, in the face of overwhelming odds. Happy Birthday to us!
Game manager Lutris 0.5.8.4 out as a small fix-up before the next major release
The free and open source game manager Lutris has a fresh release up, although it's mostly a fix-up release as work is ongoing for the next major release due soon.
DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging both had new releases lately
Running DOS classics? Well, there's plenty of ways to choose from with multiple projects looking to speed up the development on DOSBox with both DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging seeing new releases.
Wine 6.12 is out now with theme work, Network Store Interface beginnings
The Wine 6.12 development release is out now, containing plenty more new features and bug fixes to help run Windows games and applications on Linux.
Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.0 'Arlong' is out now and goes multi-platform
Not only does the alternative open source Epic Games Store client Heroic Games Launcher have a new release out with 1.8.0 'Arlong' it's also gone multi-platform.
NVIDIA puts out a new release of their open source NVAPI interface
With the absolutely huge NVIDIA 470 driver release now out the door, NVIDIA has just put up a fresh release of their open source NVAPI interface.
The SteamOS-like Linux distribution GamerOS becomes ChimeraOS with a new release
Getting a console-like big-screen experience with Linux gaming was a thing with SteamOS until Valve stopped updating it, then came along GamerOS to carry the torch which has evolved again with a new name of ChimeraOS.
Humble Bundle confirms changes coming mid-July to add a minimum payment for Humble
Humble Bundle announced back in April they would be making changes to the purchase sliders based on (much hated) testing, then backpedaling in May, they've announced again some changes are coming to always give Humble a cut.
A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through June 2021
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for June 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!
ScummVM adds support for Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy and The Journeyman Project 2
Have time to play some more classics? The latest release of ScummVM might not be out yet but they have announced some more titles will be playable.
System76 has launched Pop!_OS 21.04 with the new COSMIC desktop
The big day for System76 has arrived, as they've now officially launched the latest big upgrade to the Pop!_OS Linux distribution with Pop!_OS 21.04 bringing their new COSMIC desktop environment.
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