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Proton Hotfix updated to fix Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2025

Valve have released a fresh update to the special Proton Hotfix version. This fixes up issues on Steam Deck / Linux across Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 enables Wayland by default

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

For people who enjoy seeing improvements for emulation on Linux, and for Wayland support - the Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 has now enabled support for it by default.

Playtron GameOS Alpha 3 brings the 'GameLAB' tool for game configuration and remote management

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

Playtron, the company attempting to build a Linux gaming distribution to take on Valve, Microsoft and others have released GameOS Alpha 3 with a bunch of new features. This includes a new fancy open source tool named GameLAB.

The OBS Studio versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Recently I highlighted a fight that had broken out between the OBS Studio team and the Fedora Linux developers. The issue was centred around the Fedora Flatpak of OBS Studio but it seems to have calmed down now.

Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.0, bringing lots of open source graphics driver updates and expanded hardware support.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck.

Valve use a little code from Godot for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

This is the beauty of open source in action - everyone can benefit. Valve are no stranger to open source, and as it turns out they're using a little bit of code from Godot Engine now too.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 expands online play for fighting games with RPCN v1.4

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

Another big update has been released for RPCN, the open source online matchmaking server for PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3. This brings new features and more compatible games for Netplay.

CodeWeavers are hiring developers to work on Wine / Proton

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

CodeWeavers announced recently that they're once again looking for more developers to come work for them on the compatibility layers Wine and Valve's Proton.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a new release out, which finally adds an in-game settings menu so you don't have to quit your current game to adjust things.

SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux has some nice growth thanks to great handheld PC support

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

There's no need to wait on Valve releasing SteamOS 3 for everyone thanks to Bazzite. Some really impressive work continues to go into it, and it appears they're enjoying some nice overall growth.

Open source non-profit platform Codeberg "suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces"

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

Codeberg are a "non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects" and they've recently had a major problem from what they say are far-right forces engaging in a hate campaign.

Tomb Raider II open source re-implementation adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

A workaround for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs has been found

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

If there's one thing you can always count on in the Linux world it's that packaging can be a nightmare. The OBS Studio team are not happy with the Fedora folks due to Flatpak problems and threatened legal action.

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2025

After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.8 is out now with Intel GPU support, improved Wayland keybinds

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2025

After a short testing period, the Linux performance overlay MangoHud had version 0.8.0 released today to bring new features and fixes to one of my favourite open source projects. This also powers the built-in overlay on the Steam Deck.

KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2025

KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release! Filled with new features and fixes for my favourite Linux desktop environment. Plasma is also used on the Steam Deck for the Desktop Mode.

Popular game launcher Playnite will get Linux support but it's still a while away

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2025

Playnite is a very popular free and open source video game library manager, one used a lot on Windows and a developer has confirmed they will be working on Linux support.

Blender Studio announced Project DogWalk, a "Micro-Game" made with Godot

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2025

Blender Studio, the creative unit of the free open source Blender project, recently announced work has begun on their second video game with Project DogWalk.

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