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Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 just keeps on getting better
Yet another release of fheroes2 is here, keeping the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II alive with a modern recreated game engine and it's just simply great.
Category: Open Source
Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader solves some major issues in new update
Last week I showed off Decky Loader properly, a fantastic plugin system for the Steam Deck and the developers have now put up a new release solving some problems.
Proton Experimental updated helping Halo Infinite and Spider-Man Remastered
Valve released a really small update to Proton Experimental on October 13th, so here's what's new and how to use it.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine OpenRCT2 gets another big upgrade
OpenRCT2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, upgrading many parts of it and making it work well cross-platform on modern systems. Version 0.4.2 was recently released with some fun new features.
KDE Plasma 5.26 is out now
The KDE team have done it again! Giving us a fresh new Plasma desktop with plenty of upgrades and Plasma 5.26 is out now.
VirtualBox 7.0 is out with their DirectX 11 support using DXVK
Well this was an interesting one entering the GOL inbox recently. VirtualBox, the general-purpose full virtualizer has a big new release out and even they are now using DXVK.
GE-Proton 7-37 is out now fixing up more games for Steam Deck / Linux
GE-Proton (also known as Proton GE) as a community-built version of the Proton compatibility layer to run Windows games, with a new release out now and FSR is back.
NVK is a new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs
Jason Ekstrand of Collabora just announced NVK, a brand new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs.
Wine manager app Bottles gets some drag and drop fun
Bottles is the awesome free and open source app to help you manage the Windows compatibility layer Wine. A fresh release is out now with version 2022.9.28.
Gamepad driver and app 'SC Controller' gets Steam Deck support
SC Controller, what originally started as an application to control the Steam Controller outside of Steam and expanded to cover more gamepads now has a pre-release up with Steam Deck support.
AMD driver update gets Red Dead Redemption 2 working better on Steam Deck / Linux
Are you having issues with Red Dead Redemption 2 on either the Steam Deck or a Linux desktop with an AMD GPU? Well, upcoming driver updates should improve it.
Proton Experimental updates fix up Indiana Jones, Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake)
Valve has recently put up a fresh update for Proton Experimental, bringing more game compatibility and some fixes.
Linux kernel 6.0 is out now
The latest and great version of the Linux kernel has been released with Linux 6.0 out now. Linus Torvalds was also given an award from Intel recently.
Free evolution sim 'Thrive' adds a new part to let organisms spew mucilage
What I can only describe as some form of microscopic fart-cannon, the free and open source evolution sim Thrive has added what they call a Mucilage Jet for your creatures in version 0.5.10.
Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 26 'Zhuangzi' is out now
0 A.D., an in-development free and open source real-time strategy game has a big new release out with Alpha 26.
Wine 7.18 rolls out with Unicode 15 support
Wine, the translation layer that allows you to run applications and games designed for Windows on Linux has a new development release up with Wine 7.18.
GNOME 43 is out now with Quick Settings, refreshed Files app and lots more
GNOME 43 is officially out now, bringing with it some pretty wonderful sounding changes to one of the most popular Linux desktop environments.
DOSBox Staging 0.79.0 is out now
DOSBox Staging is a fork of the original DOSBox aimed at getting new features in faster, along with a better overall experience for users.
Minigalaxy, a simple open source GOG client for Linux adds lots of new features
While plenty of people use apps like Lutris, Heroic and Bottles there's also Minigalaxy which is a dedicated launcher just for GOG on Linux.
GE-Proton 7-35 out now with more fixes for Linux / Steam Deck
GE-Proton (GloriousEggroll), the community maintained version of the Windows compatibility layer version 7-35 is out now and here's what's new.
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