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

By Liam Squires-Hand, 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 Squires-Hand, 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 Squires-Hand, 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 Squires-Hand, 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 Squires-Hand, 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 Squires-Hand, 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 Squires-Hand, 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.

Decky Loader for Steam Deck gets a store upgrade to show currently installed plugins clearly

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Feb 2025

Decky Loader, the popular plugin system for Steam Deck / SteamOS, has a fresh release out making the plugin store a bit more useful.

GE-Proton 9-24 released with a new save game detection feature (and now GE-Proton 9-25 too)

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Feb 2025 [updated]

GE-Proton 9-24 is out now bringing with it the usual assortment of fixes, plus as interesting change that will help games detect saves from other games. Update: GE-Proton 9-25 hotfix is also out now.

Wine 10.1 out now with fixes for Battle.net and more Bluetooth driver work

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Feb 2025

With the huge Wine 10 release out, the Wine team have moved back to their regular biweekly development feature releases with Wine 10.1 out now.

The huge free Command & Conquer - Combined Arms RTS just got upgraded

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Feb 2025

Powered by the always impressive OpenRA game engine, the standalone and entirely free fan game Command & Conquer - Combined Arms RTS has a brand new release out.

Valve fixes up The Finals and No Man's Sky VR with Proton Experimental

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Feb 2025

A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve has landed fixing up issues with two games for Linux / Steam Deck so here's what's new.

Nexus Mods app makes improvements to Collections, fixes Baldur's Gate 3 Script Extender on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand, 3 Feb 2025

The newer open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app has another update out, this time with more UI changes and improvements to the Collections system along with bug fixes.

PS2 Emulator emulator PCSX2 should get Wayland support "in the coming months"

By Liam Squires-Hand, 3 Feb 2025

PCSX2 is a free and open source Sony PS2 Emulator, and it seems they're working towards ensuring it has full support for Wayland on Linux.

Linux performance overlay MangoHud 0.8.0-rc1 out now for testing with Intel GPU support and lots of improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand, 31 Jan 2025

MangoHud is a performance overlay you can use on Desktop Linux, and it's what powers the built-in overlay on Steam Deck. A new release candidate is now available for testing for an upcoming stable release with version 0.8.0-rc1.

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH should work better on Linux / Steam Deck with the latest Proton Hotfix

By Liam Squires-Hand, 31 Jan 2025

Even though FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is rated as Steam Deck Verified, it did launch with some problems on Linux / Steam Deck but Valve's Proton developers are moving quickly to improve it.

Open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 27 released bringing a new Vulkan renderer, new maps, AMD FSR and lots more

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Jan 2025

The free, open source and cross-platform RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 27 is now finally available and it brings with it a whole lot of new features and content.

NTSYNC driver support heads to Wine in a new Merge Request

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Jan 2025

With the NTSYNC driver landing ready for the Linux kernel 6.14 release, there's now an open Merge Request to actually hook up support for it in Wine.

Collabora take over libsurvive development an open source VR lighthouse tracking system

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Jan 2025

Collabora have announced they've taken over development of libsurvive, an open source lighthouse tracking system for VR.

NTSYNC for Proton / Wine now in Linux kernel 6.14 that "Should make many SteamOS users happy"

By Liam Squires-Hand, 28 Jan 2025

Seems like the upcoming Linux kernel 6.14 release is going to be a nice one for gamers on Linux / Steam Deck, as the NTSYNC code has now been properly merged in ready.

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