Proton Experimental fixes up Tekken 8, Cosmoteer, Call of Cthulhu, Warframe and more
After recently updating Proton Experimental to be based on the new Proton 9, Valve ended February 2024 with another bunch of bug fixes for Proton Experimental.
Category: Open Source
The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation
If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.
Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time
The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.
Lots of exciting updates coming to the free & open source RPG Veloren
Veloren, the free and open source action-adventure role-playing voxel game made in Rust keeps evolving. Since its last public v0.15 release in July 2023, much has changed and lots of improvements were made so far.
The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.
Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
Well, here we go. Nintendo have formally filed a lawsuit against the creators of the popular open source Switch emulator yuzu.
PC and handheld gaming with Linux levels up with Bazzite v2.3.0
Bazzite version 2.3.0 has been released, and it should make installing it a whole lot easier across different devices from PCs to handhelds. The developers think it's the "next generation of Linux Gaming".
Free and open source evolution sim Thrive gets big new gameplay features in v0.6.5
Thrive is a free and open source evolution sim from Revolutionary Games Studio that's currently in-development, and a new release has rolled out with v0.6.5 bringing some gameplay additions.
Proton Experimental updated with Proton 9 - adds fixes for Helldivers 2 and more
Now that the testing is open for Proton 9, Valve have now updated Proton Experimental to move over to Proton 9 along with a bunch of extra game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux.
Wine 9.3 out now with Internet Proxy support improvements, New HID pointer device driver
Wine 9.3 has landed as another early development release of the Windows compatibility layer on the road to Wine 10 next year. Here's the highlights of what's changed.
Proton 9.0 now in Beta with improved game compatibility for Steam Deck / Linux
Valve announced that Proton 9.0 is now available for testing, with lots of game compatibility improvements for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to it now being based on the recent Wine 9.0 release.
Discord Overlay for Linux v0.7.0 should improve idling and on battery power
Discover, not to be confused with the KDE Discover software store, is a Discord overlay for Linux and the first update in a while is out now with version 0.7.0.
Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API
With development work ongoing for SDL3, some recent exciting improvements include a Vulkan Render backend and a camera API.
The Force Engine for classic Star Wars: Dark Forces now on Flathub
Want an easy way to get The Force Engine on Linux to play Star Wars: Dark Forces (and eventually Outlaws too)? Well, now it's available on Flathub.
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, which is an open source version of the classic Star Control 2, has managed to get a Steam release from Pistol Shrimp Games.
Valve open sourced Steam Audio including the SDK and Plugins
Steam Audio is a full-featured audio solution for game developers, and now anyone can pretty much do anything with it as Valve has made it entirely open source.
There's a new Godot Engine addon to simplify testing on Steam Deck
For game developers using or looking at using Godot Engine, you may want to check out the Godot 4 DeployToSteamOS addon which gives you a one-click method to test your games on Steam Deck.
EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) gets new default look and different font sizes
EmulationStation Desktop Edition 3.0 is out now and it's gone through a rebrand to simply ES-DE, plus a whole bunch of improvements come with this release.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is still amazingly being updated, although not directly by Beamdog with the community now helping out for fun. There's also more of it now open source.
Apple M1 gets OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2 support on Linux
Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig announced in a blog post that support for the Apple M1 has been improved, with the latest updates bringing full conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1.
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