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How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
OpenMW is the best way to play Morrowind on modern systems, so here's your full guide to getting it installed on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Nexus Mods app 0.17.2 brings early work on a built-in downloads page and performance improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Work is ongoing on the new cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app to support more games, and a smaller release is out now for more testing.

OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI

By Liam Squires-Hand,
An exciting release for the Morrowind game engine OpenMW is coming, with the first Release Candidate out for version 0.50.0 bringing some big changes.

Open source strategy shooter Unvanquished gets a big new release with SDL3

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Unvanquished is a free and open source cross-platform humans versus aliens strategy shooter, with a big new release out now that features SDL3.

System76 COSMIC desktop Beta and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta now available

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Two huge bits of news from System76, as they've released a Beta for both the new COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS bringing lots of goodies.

GE-Proton 10-17 released fixing Warframe as probably other games too

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GE-Proton 10-17 was just released following on from GE-Proton 10-16 a few days ago, to further enhanced Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

GE-Proton 10-16 released with a tweak for Star Citizen and a Stellar Blade modding fix

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GE-Proton 10-16 was just released which includes a fix for Star Citizen, and a Stellar Blade modding fix amongst various other internal upgrades.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve updated Proton Experimental for September 19th, adding their usual assortment of fixes for running Windows games new and old on Linux PCs and Steam Deck.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.11 has been released

By fheroes2,
Another fresh upgrade for the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 open source game engine fheroes2 with some major changes and bug fixes.

GNOME 49 released with new video player, document viewer, improved app store and disabled X11 session

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GNOME 49 "Brescia" has been officially released today with improvements big and small across this popular Linux desktop environment.

Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals

By Liam Squires-Hand,
You're supposed to only be able to use AMD FSR4 with the latest AMD GPUs, but thanks to a woops from AMD - even the Steam Deck can now use FSR4.

Godot 4.5 released with lots of big new features

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Godot Engine 4.5 has been officially released further enhancing this free and open source cross-platform game engine.

AMDVLK has been discontinued as AMD are throwing their "full support" behind RADV

By Liam Squires-Hand,
AMD have announced the end of AMDVLK, their official open-source Vulkan driver and will instead now be focusing on the much more popular RADV.

Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Nintendo likely won't be happy about this one, so get it while it's hot, Super Mario Bros Remastered is out now and open source.

Wine 10.15 released bringing Unicode 17 and some initial NTSYNC work

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Wine 10.15 has rolled out as the latest development release on the Windows compatibility layer towards eventually the Wine 11 release next year.

Proton Experimental updated for Dune: Awakening, Tales Of Berseria, Arken Age and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Proton Experimental was updated for September 10th to bring more Windows game fixes to Linux Desktop, SteamOS and Steam Deck. Here's all the latest.

Classic open source RTS Warzone 2100 v4.6 brings better water effects, revamped options and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Warzone 2100 continues living its best life as a free and open source project, with the classic RTS receiving another major upgrade with version 4.6 out now.

Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now officially open source

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Some fun computing history for you here as Microsoft recently open sourced Microsoft 6502 BASIC under the MIT license.

KDE officially release the first alpha of KDE Linux their new reference implementation OS

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The KDE team have been busy, as they're making their own full Linux distro with KDE Linux being a reference implementation OS for Plasma and KDE apps.

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is officially out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" has been officially released today, bringing with it plenty of enhancements across the board to the popular Linux distro.
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