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WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more

By Liam Dawe,
WinBoat is a popular way to run Windows apps on Linux in a containerized environment that sorts all the configuration for you and a new update sounds great.

Proton Experimental for SteamOS / Linux gets fixes for Marvel Rivals, BlazBlue Centralfiction and more

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve for the weekend with various game fixes for SteamOS / Linux.

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source

By Liam Dawe,
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.

The cross-platform Nexus Mods app v0.21.1 makes mod collection installation smoother

By Liam Dawe,
The Nexus Mods app team have rolled out another early release for their in-progress successor to Vortex, with v0.21.1 bringing more improvements.

A great showcase of open source - Blender 5.0 is out with completely overhauled colour management

By Liam Dawe,
Another release is here for the incredible open source project Blender. The 5.0 release brings huge changes like completely overhauled colour management.

Earth 2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release

By Liam Dawe,
OpenE2140 is bringing back Earth 2140, the classic RTS with it being powered by the OpenRA engine and a first release is out now.

Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Just as the weekend arrived, Mesa 25.3.0 was released as the latest new-feature upgrade for open source Linux graphics drivers.

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
VKD3D-Proton is one of the secret ingredients for Proton to make so many Windows games work well on Linux / SteamOS with a new 3.0 release out now.

Wine 10.19 released as we head towards Wine 11

By Liam Dawe,
The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve's Proton, here's all that's new and improved.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.12 has been released

By fheroes2,
A brand new version of the modernised Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine fheroes2 has released with version 1.1.12 now available.

Proton 10.0-3 released bringing lots of improvements for gaming on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS machines like Steam Deck.

Linux open source graphics drivers Mesa 25.2.7 released

By Liam Dawe,
The latest set of open source graphics drivers for Linux have released, with the bug fix Mesa 25.2.7 now available.

KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

By Liam Dawe,
The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops.

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate

By Liam Dawe,
The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up.

D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
We've have DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for various versions of Direct3D on Linux, but now it seems we're also getting Direct3D 7 as well.

Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu

By Liam Dawe,
A new blog post is out from the Linux Mint team going over some recent work, with the newer Cinnamon Menu coming along nicely and a new System Information tool.

GZDoom successor project UZDoom gets a first preview release

By Liam Dawe,
After the GZDoom implosion, the rest of the developers split off to form UZDoom and the first preview release has rolled out with some essential improvements.

The Godot Engine 2025 showreel is out

By Liam Dawe,
Showing off a bunch of what's capable with the free and open source game engine Godot, the 2025 showreel has been released.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios titles, ARC Raiders and various other games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers.

OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind is out with more enhancements and better gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.
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