GZDoom 4.8.0 with cut-scene system, Discord integration, HUD scaling
The free and open source retro FPS game engine, GZDoom, has a brand new release available with some big new features.
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Linux Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture
Good news for fan of Arm devices, as developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has announced that the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture.
Action Quake 2 (AQtion), considered the 'precursor' to Counter-Strike now on Steam
Action Quake 2 (AQtion), a free and open source first-person shooter that the developers say "spawned one of the most popular and influential games of all time, Counter-Strike" is now available on Steam.
ScummVM 2.6 is incoming, devs asking for testing help of more retro games
ScummVM, the excellent open source software that bundles together multiple game engines has a new release coming and now it's time to help test.
Wine 7.10 rolls out with 56 bug fixes
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.10.
The QuickLaunch plugin for the Steam Deck is a great time-saver
With the Steam Deck you can install various third-party games and applications in desktop mode. However, it's a bit annoying adding them all to Steam and so the QuickLaunch plugin can save you some time.
Heroic Games Launcher gets more Steam Deck and Flatpak improvements
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games and GOG on Linux and Steam Deck has a new update out, mostly focused on cleaning up some problems but also sprinkles in some new features like a command-line interface.
Corsair driver and UI for Linux ckb-next version 0.5.0 is out now
Have some fancy Corsair hardware that you want to tweak on Linux? You need the ckb-next project, which has a new release out with version 0.5.0.
Get some classics working better on Steam Deck with Luxtorpeda upgrades
Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play tool (like Proton) but for running various Native Linux games engines. A fresh update is out, further improving Steam Deck support.
Morrowind gets shiny in OpenMW with post-processing shaders coming
OpenMW, the free and open source game engine reimplementation of Morrowind is about to get a lot better looking, with post-processing shaders coming in the next release.
ProtonUp-Qt adds support for Wine manager app Bottles
ProtonUp-Qt, the fantastic tool to help you install various community builds of Wine and Proton like GE-Proton or Wine-GE on Linux and Steam Deck just added support for the Bottles application.
Fly Dangerous, the 'love letter' to Elite Dangerous racing is now on Steam
Love racing spaceships? Check out Fly Dangerous, originally created as a love letter to the Elite Dangerous racing community, it's now available on Steam and it's free.
Theme Hospital reimplementation CorsixTH has a huge new Beta release
Theme Hospital! What an absolute classic! The free and open source game engine reimplementation CorsixTH v0.66-beta1 is out now, bringing with it lots of improvements.
Linux kernel 5.18 is out now
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the latest Linux kernel version 5.18, bringing with it the usual masses of improvements and new hardware support.
Windows compatibility layer Wine 7.9 is now available
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). It's a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck.
Proton Experimental fixes Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher
Valve has pushed out another update to Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton you can try that has more features before they roll out to the stable versions.
KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta is out now for testing
Ready for even more improvements to come to the KDE Plasma desktop? I know I am and Plasma 5.25 Beta is now available.
Developer of popular noise suppression tool NoiseTorch has dev machine compromised
Are you a user of NoiseTorch? It's a popular way of getting some pretty great noise suppression on your microphone, to keep out all that background noise or a hammer hitting your desk. Sadly, the developer had a machine compromised.
Mesa 22.1.0 out now improving open source graphics
Mesa 22.1.0 is out now bringing tons of improvements for open source graphics drivers for OpenGL and Vulkan.
Godot Engine 3.5 RC 1 is up with a new asynchronous shader compilation system
Godot Engine 3.5 is getting close to release with a first Release Candidate available for developers to test the next version of this open source game engine.
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