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Standalone Steam Controller driver and UI 'SC Controller' gets a sweet small upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Dec 2020

SC Controller is a pretty essential standalone user-mode driver and configuration UI for working with the Steam Controller, and it just got the first stable update in some time.

OBS Studio has managed to pull in YouTube as a new sponsor

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Dec 2020

Seems that Blender and Godot Engine aren't the only open source projects pulling in wide support, as OBS Studio has announced a new funding partner.

Get colourful with the new release of the open source lighting control OpenRGB

By Liam Squires-Hand, 7 Dec 2020

Love your flashy lights, your colourful RBG LEDs covering your computer and your desk? How about controlling them from Linux? OpenRGB is your friend.

The road to Wine 6.0 begins with a first Release Candidate

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Dec 2020

The Wine compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux and other systems has a new development release up, the first Release Candidate for Wine 6.0.

DOSBox Staging has a rather large new release out with 0.76.0

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Dec 2020

DOSBox Staging is the fork of the original emulator with an aim to modernize it and give it some more advanced features, with the latest release out now.

Unity acquires the open source MLAPI networking library

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Dec 2020

Unity Technologies who work on the Unity game engine have announced that they have acquired the networking library MLAPI, along with the creator joining Unity.

Mesa 20.3.0 is out bringing tons of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers

By Liam Squires-Hand, 3 Dec 2020

Mesa 20.3.0 is the latest and greatest when it comes to Linux open source graphics, bringing with it new hardware support, performance improvements and more.

The Solus Linux team release the Budgie 10.5.2 desktop environment upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand, 3 Dec 2020

Solus, the independent semi-rolling release distribution has released a big upgrade to their flagship Budgie desktop environment with the 10.5.2 update.

Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.3 released

By Liam Squires-Hand, 2 Dec 2020

The open source DXVK project which translates D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan for use with Linux and the Wine compatibility layer has a new release up.

The latest update to hybrid tower-defense sandbox factory game Mindustry is amazing

By Liam Squires-Hand, 2 Dec 2020

It's free, it's open source and it's absolutely awesome. Mindustry just had an almighty update bringing with it huge changes and it's just as awesome as ever.

Free and open source modern level editor 'LDtk' now ready for more users

By Liam Squires-Hand, 2 Dec 2020

Level Designer Toolkit (LDtk), which was originally known as 'LEd' has a huge new release out and the developer mentioned it's now ready for production.