Article category: Open Source - page 47

Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!

GE-Proton 8-22 released with fixes for Alan Wake 2, Metal Gear Solid 3

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2023

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GE-Proton 8-22 has been released to give you some quick improvements for gaming on Steam Deck and desktop Linux with some recent releases.

Wine 8.19 out now with Mono updates and more DirectMusic work

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2023

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The Windows compatibility later Wine version 8.19 is out now as the latest development release on the road to Wine 9.0. Here's what's changed.

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra gets a performance boost on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2023

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Recently I highlighted that the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra was doing a big move over to Vulkan, giving it a modern rendering system to keep on pushing performance. The latest updates also give a big boost for Linux / Steam Deck.

GE-Proton 8-21 released fixing up FSR issues

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2023

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GE-Proton 8-21 was released today for Steam Deck and Linux desktop to improve your gaming. Here's a run over what's new and how to use it.

Proton gets upgrades for TEKKEN 8, Burnout Paradise Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077

By Liam Dawe, 21 Oct 2023

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Valve released two separate Proton upgrades recently with Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental both seeing releases. Here's what's new for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gaming.

Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2023

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Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2023

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The game manager Lutris has a brand new release out with some sweet new features, so time to take another look at one of the best ways to run games from pretty much anywhere on Linux and Steam Deck.

KDE Plasma 6.0 now scheduled for release 28th February 2024

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2023

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The KDE team are hard at work to make the next major release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, my current favourite desktop and the one used on the Steam Deck. Now, we actually have something of a proper roadmap to Plasma 6.0.

Moonlight and Sunshine game and desktop streaming updates out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

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Moonlight and Sunshine are projects that allow you to stream your entire PC over your network, useful if Steam Remote Play doesn't work well and as an alternative to NVIDIA GameStream. Both projects recently had major upgrades.

Steering wheel manager Oversteer v0.8.0 adds new hardware support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

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Got a steering wheel and want to manage it on Linux for all your racing and trucking games? Oversteer is what you need and a new release went out recently.

OpenRA for classic RTS gaming version 20231010 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

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Turns out my RSS reader broke and so I missed a bunch of great stuff recently, like a brand new stable public release of the excellent OpenRA game engine for classic RTS games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.

NVIDIA looking to hook up Reflex support in Proton

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2023

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An NVIDIA engineer has sent in pull requests to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and DXVK-NVAPI to enable support for Reflex / NV low latency to get it hooked up in Proton.

GE-Proton 8-17 brings fixes for Alan Wake, Batman Arkham Asylum and more (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2023

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A fresh release of the community-maintained GE-Proton for Steam Deck and Linux desktop is out! GE-Proton 8-17 has some nice sounding fixes for running various games. Updates: and now GE-Proton 8-18 too and later 8-19.

Wine 8.18 brings more Wayland work

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2023

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Wine 8.18 is the latest development release of Wine now available, bringing with it the continued work to provide full Wayland support but still plenty of work ahead on that.

Godot 4.2 beta 1 is out now for testing

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2023

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The Godot team are preparing the next release of their free and open source game engine, with Godot 4.2 beta 1 now available for anyone to jump in and test it.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.9 released

By fheroes2, 13 Oct 2023

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As usual, after a month of hard work, fheroes2 Resurrection Team released a new 1.0.9 version of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine, filled with updates, fixes and new features!

Ubuntu 23.10 download got pulled down due to a malicious translation

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2023

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Canonical announced shortly after the release of Ubuntu 23.10 that the official downloads were pulled, as there was hate speech identified from a malicious contributor in some of their translations.

Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' is out now

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2023

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The latest upgrade to Ubuntu and the many flavours like Kubuntu and Xubuntu is out now with Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur". Are you ready to update?

Proton Experimental updated for Tony Hawk's, Halo Infinite, Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2023

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A freshly brewed Proton Experimental release just went out today which includes a bunch of fixes for various games. Here's your usual run over what's improved for Steam Deck / Linux desktop.

Category: Open Source