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Heretic II has a new reverse-engineered source port

By Liam Dawe,
A lot of classic games have received source ports over the years, and now it's time for Heretic II with Heretic2R bringing some enhancements.

Ubuntu MATE seeking maintainers as the creator looks to move on

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Martin Wimpress has announced their intention to move on from Ubuntu MATE, and so the distribution is looking for fresh faces.
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Framework becomes a KDE Patron helping to fund open source

By Liam Dawe,
Hardware vendor Framework has now become a KDE Patron, offering financial support to further push open source like the Plasma desktop.

Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box

By Liam Dawe,
The spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod based on Valve's Source 2 is growing up, as you'll be able to create full standalone games with it.

ScummVM 2026.2.0 "Railmonicon" out now supporting more retro games

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM 2026.2.0 "Railmonicon" has been released bringing support for 8 new games along with various assorted fixes elsewhere.

Monado becomes the open source foundation for various OpenXR (VR) vendors

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora announced that their open source XR runtime (VR / AR) Monado has made some serious waves in the industry, and is now the foundation for many vendors.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta released with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, Mesa 26

By Liam Dawe,
The next major release of Ubuntu is almost here with a Beta now available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Long-term support) for testing and bug-hunting.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crimson Desert, Steam Overlay with EA games, Death Stranding 2

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just pushed out another excellent update for Proton Experimental - further improving Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS.

GNOME Fellowship program announced to support "critical and under-resourced areas"

By Liam Dawe,
The people behind GNOME recently announced the GNOME Fellowship program, to provide financial backing to those working on specific areas.

Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB 0.9.5 gets Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition playable

By Liam Dawe,
The developers working away on the Infinity Engine open source remake GemRB just released v0.9.5, bringing major classic RPG compatibility improvements.

Thief-like open source game project The Dark Mod 2.14 released

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the classic stealth game series Thief, the free and open source project The Dark Mod has a new release out.

D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling

By Liam Dawe,
D7VK v1.6 is another impressive sounding release for the Direct3D 3, 5, 6 7 to Vulkan translation layer bringing further compatibility improvements for Linux.

GE-Proton 10-34 brings fixes for God of War Ragnarök, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy XIV

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 10-34 has arrived bringing even more gaming fixes for Linux / SteamOS, so here's all you need to know for the community-run compatibility layer.

Wine 11.5 released with support for Syscall User Dispatch on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 11.5 has arrived with new bug fixes and features for running Windows apps and games on Linux, with a nice sounding compatibility improvement.

OpenTTD devs clarify store changes with Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release as Atari contribute server funding

By Liam Dawe,
The OpenTTD developers have released a statement to clarify some confusion and misinformation on the Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release from Atari.

GNOME 50 released with much improved Parental Controls and lots more

By Liam Dawe,
GNOME 50 “Tokyo” is out now as the latest major update to the popular Linux desktop environment, and there's some big new goodies in this one.

Firefox v149 is getting a free built-in VPN and other new features

By Liam Dawe,
Mozilla are working towards improving your privacy on the web, with Firefox v149 planned for March 24th that brings out their own built-in free VPN.

GE-Proton 10-33 brings fixes for VR outside of Steam, FSR upgrades and more

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 10-33 has arrived bringing with it a fresh set of fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS, here's all that's new for you.

EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws

By Liam Dawe,
The Arch-based Linux distribution EndeavourOS Titan is out now, bringing with it plenty of nice sounding upgrades and some comments on age verification.

If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T

By Liam Dawe,
GPU-Z is a popular Windows app to give you a simple readout of your graphics card, and a new Linux alternative GPU-T was announced recently.
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