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Proton Experimental gets fixes for THE FINALS, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and METAL GEAR SOLID V

By Liam Squires-Hand, 20 Aug 2025

A small update to Proton Experimental landed with a few fixes for some nuisances for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Here's what's changed.

Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 recently added save state slots and netplay cloud servers

By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Aug 2025

If Nintendo 64 is your thing, keep an eye on the gopher64 emulator which is steadily adding in more features and has Linux support.

SlaveDriver Engine for the Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave gets open sourced

By Liam Squires-Hand, 18 Aug 2025

Another win for game preservation and open source, with the release of the SlaveDriver Engine for Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave.

Wine 10.13 released with improvements for WoW64, BCrypt and more

By Liam Squires-Hand, 16 Aug 2025

After a delay due to the release manager travelling, the Wine 10.13 release is officially out now for the Windows compatibility layer.

Proton Experimental updated with fixes for The Crew Motorfest, Farlight 84 and more games

By Liam Squires-Hand, 15 Aug 2025

For August 14th Valve released another upgrade to Proton Experimental, bringing some more essential fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Nexus Mods app 0.15.2 brings updater improvements and more bug fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Aug 2025

The Nexus Mods team just put out a new version of their in-development cross-platform mod manager, the Nexus Mods app v0.15.2 is now available to test.

GE-Proton 10-12 hotfix adds a few more needed tweaks for video playback

By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Aug 2025

As is tradition, a recent GE-Proton update had some issues so a hotfix version has released to fix up Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Linux Mint 22.2 Beta available for the next long-term supported release

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Aug 2025

Linux Mint 22.2 arrives soon with a Beta release now available so you can test it early, and help report any issues for the next long-term support release.

GE-Proton 10-11 brings fixes for Farlight 84, Denuvo, Devil May Cry HD Collection, Guild Wars 2 and more

By Liam Squires-Hand, 11 Aug 2025

Another fresh brew of GE-Proton 10-11 has been released to fix various issues with Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

The Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre v0.90 brings dynamic settings and new fire spreading

By Liam Squires-Hand, 11 Aug 2025

VoxeLibre is a great free and open source sandbox game, a Minecraft-like built on top of the Luanti (Minetest) game engine and a big new release v0.90 is out.

Debian 13 trixie released with Linux kernel 6.12

By Liam Squires-Hand, 11 Aug 2025

Debian 13 trixie has been released following years of working, bringing lots of new software updates for the popular Linux distribution.

Open source re-implementation of Caesar III levels up in the new release

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Aug 2025

They don't make them like they used to right? Caesar III is a classic and you can play it with plenty of enhancements with Julius.

OpenLinkHub for managing iCUE LINK Hub and various Corsair devices on Linux expands device support

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Aug 2025

Managing your hardware fully on Linux can be a hassle since vendors don't support it directly usually, but OpenLinkHub makes Corsair devices a bit easier.

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) gets expanded support for older AMD GPUs

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Aug 2025

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) version 0.8.1 has been released, giving you more options for getting the best performance out of your GPU.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for DualSense, God Eater Resurrection, Crysis 3, Resident Evil Village and more

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Aug 2025

For August 7th Valve released a new update to Proton Experimental to get more Windows games working better on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

Mesa 25.2.0 released with NVIDIA upgrades, Apple Vulkan driver enhancements and lots more improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Aug 2025

Mesa 25.2.0 is officially out now as the latest new feature release of open source graphics drivers for Linux.

Bottles app for running Windows apps / games on Linux gets NGI Zero Commons funding

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Aug 2025

The NLnet Foundation revealed more projects receiving funding from NGI Zero Commons, which includes the popular Bottles app for running Windows apps on Linux.

JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine

By Liam Squires-Hand, 5 Aug 2025

Godot Foundation announced that JetBrains have become a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine development, helping push this cross-platform open source game engine.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.18.1 brings more bug fixes for GOG and Epic Games on Linux / SteamOS

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Aug 2025

Heroic is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck. v2.18.1 brings bug fixes to make it even smoother.