Category: Open Source

Valve released a fresh Proton Experimental update for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux to finish up November so here's what's new and improved.

Godot Engine 4.2 is officially released bringing with it a great many improvements for developers using this popular free and open source game engine.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.11 is out now and brings with it an easier way to sort your game library by adding custom categories.

Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.

As the KDE team continue working full steam ahead towards Plasma 6, they're now down to a single showstopping bug for having Wayland by default.

The day finally arrived! PipeWire 1.0 has been officially released, marking the real start of properly modern audio and video handling on Linux.

An exciting release of VKD3D-Proton has arrived! VKD3D-Proton 2.11 brings with it some big improvements for the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer used in Valve's Proton for Linux PC and Steam Deck.

Wine 8.21 has rolled out as the latest development release and brings with it some nice sounding stuff, readying up for Wine 9.0 early next year.

A small hotfix release of GE-Proton went up with GE-Proton 8-25 containing two changes, but for players of classic games it might be a good release to try.

Want to play a classic with a fresh open source game engine? TR1X for Tomb Raider 1 from 1996 has a new release out with a Native Linux version now available.

While work is ongoing to provide brand new Intel Xe Vulkan drivers on Linux with their newer driver, work is still happening to improve the current driver.

A big step for the in-development open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK, as Collabora have announced how it's hit Vulkan 1.0 conformance.

A rather interesting release for GE-Proton has arrived! GE-Proton 8-24 for Steam Deck / desktop Linux has some good game fixes and pulls in the exciting work of D8VK.

Need help managing various Razer devices on Linux? Polychromatic v0.8.3 is out now with improved hardware support powered by OpenRazer.

Dear supporters of the fheroes2 project and Heroes of Might and Magic 2 players! After a month of tedious work, we are presenting a new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.0.10. As always today's release is full of compelling features and code changes.

Valve has released a fresh Proton Experimental release for November 15th so here's your run over what's new and improved.

In another update on the progress of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment release, there's some fun details from Nate Graham.

While it (sadly) doesn't yet have proper Native Linux support, it's still great to see more open source remakes like this and Dungeon Keeper is a true classic. KeeperFX has hit the big 1.0!

More good news for the free and open source Godot Engine, as they've announced two more fun names have joined in to help fund further development.

Another big release of the video recording software OBS Studio 30.0 now available, bringing with it some new features and fixes.