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Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
This is the sale event you've been waiting on isn't it? The Steam Winter Sale 2025 has arrived with a great many thousands of games discounted.
Category: Misc
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.
NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01
As part of the New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver version 590.48.01 released today for Linux with a few more fixes.
Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers
The Mesa team have released Mesa 25.3.2 as the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable branch of open source Linux graphics drivers.
Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam.
It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
Just like Google plan with Chrome, Mozilla aren't sitting still on expanding Firefox into something resembling a web browser but with more AI.
GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system
As covered by GamingOnLinux back in October, GOG have now actually properly announced the GOG Patrons subscription donation system.
The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre
The results are in, game developers look to move forward to create Bullet Heaven as an official genre spawned from Vampire Survivors.
Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 on Linux, D7VK has a 1.0 release out now
Bringing more classic gaming goodies with the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, D7VK 1.0 is out now for Linux.
NVIDIA driver 580.119.02 released for Linux as the latest recommended stable version
A new Recommended / Certified Linux driver release from NVIDIA with version 580.119.02 now available.
Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
Showing just how insane it is to be a game developer right now, we've hit an all-time high for game releases on Steam in 2025 and not many get seen.
Highlight announcements from The Game Awards 2025
The Game Awards 2025 has been and gone, and so here's a round-up of some of the highlight announcements for you so you're not missing out.
Talking point - what have you been playing lately?
Welcome back, dear readers, to another community article for us all to have a little chat about what we've been playing recently.
Open source XR runtime Monado 25.1.0 released with expanded hardware support
Monado is an impressive open source XR runtime that aims to support a whole lot of hardware, with a focus on great Linux support and version 25.1.0 is out now.
NVIDIA announce a few changes for GeForce NOW and new games for December
NVIDIA recently revealed a fresh list of games coming to GeForce NOW during December, but there's also going to be a few changes.
AMD FSR Redstone arrives with AMD FSR SDK 2.1
AMD today properly revealed and released AMD FSR Redstone with the AMD FSR SDK 2.1, bringing many enhancements to their upscaling tech.
KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success
Absolutely smashing their goals, the KDE team have managed to have a huge success for the 2025 fundraiser that's currently ongoing.
Proton Experimental brings fixes for ARC Raiders, The Finals and various other games
Valve just launched their latest upgrade for Proton Experimental to get as many Windows games as possible running on Linux / SteamOS.
Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements.
Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.