XWayland gets DRM leasing support for helping VR on Linux
A big improvement has been merged into XWayland called DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) Leasing, which should allow good VR support under Wayland. Something we've been waiting on!
Category: Open Source
RetroArch 1.9.14 out, with more emulator cores landing on Steam
The RetroArch team have released RetroArch 1.9.14, and recently they've been expanding what emulator cores are available on the Steam version with 26 now available.
Decentraland is the latest to help fund Blender development
Decentraland joins a long list of companies and individuals helping to fund Blender, the excellent free and open source 3D creation suite that just recently released the big 3.0 version.
fheroes2 reimplementation for Heroes of Might and Magic II updated
Released originally in 1996, Heroes of Might and Magic II is a game that's beloved by many and the fheroes2 project continues to mature with version 0.9.10 out now.
Wine 6.23 is out now continuing the PE conversion work
Another two weeks and more fixes coming in, the Wine 6.23 release is officially out now with new features and bug fixes.
Blender 3.0 is out now with a visual refresh, huge new features
A true showcase for not only how good open source software can be but also how to successfully manage every part of it. Blender 3.0 is officially out now.
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) sees a first major release, Linux support in preview
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from the Open 3D Foundation is what was once Amazon Lumberyard, now open source it's just had a first major stable release.
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games appears popular with over 100K downloads
Despite the Epic Games Store not offering Linux support at all, it still seems to be somewhat popular with Linux users as the unofficial Heroic Games Launcher hit a big downloads milestone.
Minecraft set to be 30% faster on Linux with Mesa drivers
If you're using the open source Mesa drivers on Linux (mostly AMD/Intel) and you're a fan of Minecraft, the next Mesa release is going to give you a big performance uplift.
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 shows off big game fixes
RPCS3 continues advancing to truly nail-down the experience of playing classic PlayStation 3 games emulated on modern platforms and a fresh video shows lots of fun.
The Elder Scrolls: Arena reimplementation OpenTESArena gets a big upgrade
While it's currently still in heavy development, OpenTESArena is another great example of what can be done with open source with it reimplementing The Elder Scrolls: Arena in a modern cross-platform game engine.
Collabora announced Venus, 3D accelerated Vulkan in QEMU
Well this is quite exciting. Collabora, the open source consulting firm that often works with Valve, has announced the experimental Venus driver for 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU.
KDE developer suggests Plasma needs to be simpler by default
KDE developer Nate Graham, the same person who recently said they may become the "Windows or Android" of the FOSS world is back again with more thoughts - this time about keeping it simple.
GOverlay for editing MangoHud gets a new Steam Deck friendly UI
GOverlay is an application that helps to manage Linux gaming tools like the MangoHud performance overlay, the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt and the video capture tool ReplaySorcery.
Open source re-implementation of Caesar III, Augustus v3.1 is out
Augustus is an open source game engine re-implementation for Caesar III, forked from another called Julius that aims to add in new features.
Godot Engine gets AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution
The free and open source Godot Engine recently had support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution merged into the code, ready for the next big release.
Steam Play Proton 6.3-8 out with initial BattlEye support, CEG DRM and more games
Probably one of the more exciting releases of Proton lately, with lots of what was previously in Proton Experimental now in the main release with Proton 6.3-8 out now.
ScummVM gets support for 1998 classic Sanitarium
Sanitarium, the popular point-and-click horror from 1998 is getting a fresh life thanks to the ScummVM project.
KDE Discover gets update to prevent you breaking your Linux system
I must say, I appreciate the attention to make things not only simpler but less breakable lately. First we had APT being patched to stop users removing essential packages, now the KDE Discover software manager gets a similar upgrade.
Wine 6.22 is out bringing Mono 7, more Joystick work
The Wine hackers continue to be exceptionally busy trying to catch up with Windows and a new development release is out with Wine 6.22.
- Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists
- Pre-Fortress 2 is coming to Steam to bridge the gap between Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2
- Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games
- Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console
- Valheim: Call To Arms major update announced with new combat mechanics and lots of new items
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