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Gyroscope tool JoyShockMapper comes to Linux, Valve adds 'Flick stick' to Steam Input

By Liam Dawe,
17
Own a gamepad / controller that has a built in gyroscope? Using it for first-person shooters might be about to get better for you with JoyShockMapper and Steam Input for Steam users.
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FOSS OpenXR runtime 'Monado' gets Lighthouse positional tracking with libsurvive

By Liam Dawe,
1
Are you as excited as we are about the future of VR and AR (collectively known as XR)? It's hard not to be with the excellent progress going on with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.
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NoiseTorch is another tool to remove background noise while recording on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
9
NoiseTorch is another recent discovery that can help you remove background noise in real-time while recording with a microphone on Linux.
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Play the classic Super Smash Bros Melee online on Linux with Slippi

By Liam Dawe,
1
Super Smash Bros Melee, the 2001 title originally on the Nintendo GameCube is something of a classic and to this day it remains really popular. So popular, it has a dedicated project to play it online.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation OpenRCT2 needs your feedback

By Liam Dawe,
0
OpenRCT2 is a fantastic reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and the team are doing a survey to gather some feedback on how it's used and where to focus.
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Open source space trading and combat game 'Naev' has a fresh build up

By Liam Dawe,
4
Another wonderful classic free and open source game had a fresh update recently. This time it's Naev, a game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity.
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Inspired by Settlers II, the open source Widelands has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe,
6
Settlers II is an absolute classic and Widelands does a pretty good job of carrying the torch. Recently, a huge new update went out in the form of a Release Candidate.
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NVIDIA open sourced part of NVAPI SDK to aid 'Windows emulation environments'

By Liam Dawe,
16
NVIDIA sneakily put out a little open source release recently, with a part of the NVAPI SDK now under the MIT license.
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Open source voxel game engine Minetest has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
8
Inspired by Minecraft and Infiniminer, the open source and highly moddable voxel game engine Minetest has a new release available now.
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More progress on Easy Anti-Cheat in Wine / Proton coming

By Liam Dawe,
30
With the current in-progress community development effort to get Easy Anti-Cheat working in the Wine / Proton compatibility layers, they continually hit new milestones.
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Playing SpringRTS games on Linux gets easier with Flatpak

By Liam Dawe,
4
SpringRTS, the free and open source game engine for playing various real-time strategy games is now even easier to get running on Linux.
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Free and open source space RPG 'Destination Sol' has a big 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
2
Destination Sol might not be a name known to all but it's a sweet little space exploration RPG that's free and open source, plus it's getting big updates.
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VKD3D-Proton is the new official Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer for Proton

By Liam Dawe,
48
While the Proton compatibility layer already has DXVK for translating DirectX 9/10/11 into Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton has become the official version for translating Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan.
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FOSS Linux game launcher 'Lutris' has a new bug-fix release out

By Liam Dawe,
9
It's free, it's open source and it helps you manage your thousand+ game library, a fresh update of the game launcher Lutris has arrived.
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Charge Kid, a new open source platformer where each jump is a puzzle

By Liam Dawe,
0
Up for some more open source gaming fun? Charge Kid, released on June 30 is a platformer that makes you think about your jumps and turns every single one into a puzzle.
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Arcade shooter with a massive skill tree 'BYTEPATH' goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
4
A few years after release, adnzzzzZ has released the source code for their crazy skill-tree arcade shooter BYTEPATH.
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Proton GE compatibility layer has a big new release up

By Liam Dawe,
19
Proton GE, the community-built fork of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux has a big new release out.
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Wine 5.12 is out - better RawInput and WebSocket API support

By Liam Dawe,
12
The Wine compatibility layer continues progressing, with the latest development release Wine 5.12 out now.
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Thief inspired FOSS stealth game The Dark Mod has a massive new release

By Liam Dawe,
5
The Dark Mod, a free and open-source first-person stealth game inspired by the Thief series has a huge new release up.
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Craft slick chiptune music for games or fun as FamiStudio adds Linux builds

By Liam Dawe,
13
FamiStudio, a pretty fun looking program designed for people making chiptune music and NES homebrewers recently had a big new release and it came with their first Linux build.
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