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Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2023

Another biweekly release of the compatibility layer Wine is out now! As the developers continue the progress towards getting Wine working fully with Wayland in version 8.12.

Steam Beta improves Openbox support and fixes focus issues with AMD / Intel

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

A fresh Steam Beta update was put out for desktop and Steam Deck, it comes with a whole bunch of little bug fixes and improvements. Especially nice on desktop if you have AMD or Intel GPUs.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

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 out now adding ASUS ROG Ally support

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

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

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms - the huge OpenRA mod adds more missions

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jul 2023

Easily one of my favourite game packs made with OpenRA is Command & Conquer - Combined Arms, bundling together the Allies, Soviets, Nod, GDI and the Scrin. A new release is out in v0.91 expanding the content a fair bit.

Multiplayer voxel RPG 'Veloren' v0.15 is out adding the first world boss

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2023

Free, open source and continuing to expand! Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Version 0.15 is out now and sounds fun.

GE-Proton 8-6 is out now fixing up more games for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2023

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

System76 reveal the 'Nebula' a new PC case for everyone

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2023

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.

ckb-next for configuring Corsair keyboards and mice v0.6 out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2023

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.

Micro-strategy and base building game Kingdom Eighties is out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2023

Kingdom Eighties is at least the 4th game in the series and it's a bit of a standalone spin-off, with a rather different setting compared with previous entries.

Linux kernel 6.4 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2023

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.4 and with it, lots and lots of new features and fixes.

Brotato 1.0 is out now and it's a damn good time

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2023

Brotato is something just a little bit special isn't it? Blobfish have managed to craft something that really stands out in a sea of twin-stick bullet-hell vampire survivor-likes that keep flowing.

Wine 8.11 and vkd3d 1.8 are out now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2023

Two bits of Wine news here for you as not only has the latest Wine development release been made with Wine 8.11 but vkd3d 1.8 is out now too.

Classic LucasArts games emulator DREAMM adds early Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2023

Want a way to play classic LucasArts games on Linux? While some ways already exist like ScummVM, another is DREAMM and it now has early Linux support.

Classic open source FPS Xonotic 0.8.6 released with new game modes

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2023

Xonotic 0.8.6 is an essential upgrade for anyone playing this classic free and open source arena shooter, due to a security issue but there's also plenty of new features and additions.

Save your owner as a space-pup in shoot 'em up ProtoCorgi

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2023

ProtoCorgi is a shoot 'em up with a difference. You're not a spaceship, you're not even a person, you're a dog on a quest to save their owner.

DevilutionX continues improving classic Diablo and Hellfire

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2023

A fan of the classics? DevilutionX is a modern game engine for running Diablo and Hellfire on various systems and a big new update has rolled out.

Dark Chess now has a Native Linux version available

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2023

Originally released on Steam back in February, Dark Chess now has a Native Linux version available and it brings some interesting sounding adjustments to the classic to really change how you play.