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Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
14
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.
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KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Liam Dawe,
7
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.
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Proton Experimental brings more HDR + Steam Overlay hack for Easy Anti-Cheat from EOS

By Liam Dawe,
8
Valve put up a new release of Proton Experimental today and it has some interesting changes, so here's all the latest on what's new for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming.
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MineClone2 'The Fire and Stone release' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
8
MineClone2 is a free and open source survival sandbox game built to resemble Minecraft on the Minetest game engine, and their latest release Fire and Stone is out now.
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Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode

By Liam Dawe,
10
The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.
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HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Dawe,
10
While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.
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ScummVM expands support for Macromedia Director

By Liam Dawe,
6
ScummVM is an awesome project bringing new life to absolutely loads of classic games through the power of open source, and now they're expanding support for Macromedia Director games too.
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Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now

By Liam Dawe,
10
We're reaching the end-game now Wine fans, the time for Wine 9.0 to release is quickly approaching with a second Release Candidate now available. Plus VKD3D-Proton also had a small update recently too!
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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
8
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.
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FOSS strategy-shooter Unvanquished update brings better bots, improved server browser

By Liam Dawe,
1
Unvanquished, the free and open source strategy-shooter mix, has released version 0.54.1 bringing with it some much needed improvements to continue building on.
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Heroes of Might and Magic III game engine VCMI gets some huge improvements

By Liam Dawe,
1
While we have fheroes2 for Heroes of Might and Magic II, we also have VCMI for Heroes of Might and Magic III which also continues to advance as a free and open source cross-platform game engine reimplementation.
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Open source evolution sim Thrive has a new physics engine and big performance upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
0
Thrive is an in-development Early Access open source evolution sim, much like life itself it continues to evolve and a new release version 0.6.4 brings changes to ensure the foundation is solid.
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Linux Mint 21.3 Beta out now with experimental Wayland support for Cinnamon

By Liam Dawe,
7
Linux Mint 21.3 is due to release soon with a first Beta now available, coming with the Cinnamon 6.0 desktop with experimental Wayland support.
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Proton Experimental brings HDR to Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Injustice 2

By Liam Dawe,
7
Valve put up a brand new release of Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, which brings a sprinkle more HDR and some great bug fixes.
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Wine 9.0 has a first Release Candidate released

By Liam Dawe,
18
The time is approaching for the next major version bump to the Windows compatibility layer Wine, with Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 1 now available.
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W4 Games raises $15M to help push Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
17
W4 Games, the company set up by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli, along with veteran entrepreneur Nicola Farronato just received a rather large sum of funding.
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Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking

By Liam Dawe,
14
GameMode, the tool for Linux originally from Feral Interactive, has version 1.8 released with some new features to tweak your system performance for gaming.
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Combined Arms, the big free retro C&C and Red Alert combo 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
4
Combined Arms brings Command & Conquer and Red Alert action mashed together into a single OpenRA powered game and the 1.0 release is out now.
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Minetest 5.8.0 is out now with improved settings, Minetest Game no longer default

By Liam Dawe,
12
Minetest, the popular free and open source voxel game engine, one that can be used to play various different games (like a Minecraft clone) just released version 5.8.0.
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EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming

By Liam Dawe,
11
EA (Electronic Arts) have added a few more patents to their Patent Pledge for Increasing Accessibility to help game developers.
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