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Heroic Games Launcher 2.0.0 brings a much improved login system for Epic Games
Ending 2021 with quite the bang, the unofficial Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher put up a big new release improving lots of features.
Category: Open Source
OBS Studio 27.2 enters Beta with official Flatpak support
Ready for 2022, the OBS team is preparing a major new release of the free and open source livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio.
The classic Naev, a free and open source space sim version 0.9 released
Time to explore space once again? Naev is an absolute classic. It's free, open source and it continues to mature with some more modern features available in the new 0.9 release.
Collabora's work on a Wayland driver for Wine is coming along nicely
To end the year the open source consulting firm Collabora, who often works with Valve, has written up a fresh post with a video to show off their Wayland driver for Wine.
Godot Engine received a fresh grant from Facebook / Meta for XR work
Seems that Blender isn't the only free and open source project pulling in attention from backers, with the Godot Engine team announcing today that Facebook / Meta have given them additional funding for VR / AR (XR) work.
Intel has boosted their commitment to Blender as a Corporate Patron
Intel was already a pretty high backer of the free and open source 3D creation suite Blender but now they're going in for even more as a Corporate Patron.
Proton Experimental sees new fixes for DEATHLOOP, Forza Horizon 5
Valve has put out another small upgrade to Proton Experimental, with it focused on improving a couple of popular games.
Red Hat donates $10,000 to OBS Studio, their Flatpak to be official for Linux
Little bit of good news to start Tuesday, as the excellent livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio got another good donation recently, this time from Red Hat.
Collabora announce wxrd, a standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop
Working with Virtual Reality and Linux just got a lot more interesting, with the clever hackers at Collabora announcing their new standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop called wxrd.
Wine 7.0 gets a second Release Candidate with bug fixes
The Wine team has put out a second Release Candidate for what will eventually turn into a Wine 7.0 stable release in early 2022.
Two Tribes open sourced their game engine for RIVE and Toki Tori 2+
Netherlands based Two Tribes is an indie game developer who worked on titles like RUSH, EDGE, Toki Tori, RIVE and more just open sourced their game engine.
Retro game maker GB Studio gets a big upgrade
Want to make retro games? How about making games on Linux that can be played on a Game Boy or the upcoming Analogue Pocket? GB Studio is your new best friend and a huge new release is out.
Use Wine for gaming on Linux? Try out Bottles
Bottles isn't exactly a new Linux application but it's one I had only heard about recently. It's been advancing a lot in the last year and it's really looking great.
OpenRazer 3.2.0 brings more device support for Razer fans on Linux
Have some fancy Razer devices? Need help managing them on Linux? OpenRazer 3.2.0 is out now and it's looking good.
Windows compatibility layer Wine version 7.0 gets a first Release Candidate
Another year of work has nearly come and gone with the biweekly development releases of Wine, so a new main release is on the way with Wine 7.0 seeing a first Release Candidate.
GNOME Shell 42 to have better mouse input that will help gaming
The GNOME team has announced that with GNOME Shell 42 that will release in 2022, things are going to get better for mouse input which is a nice win for gamers.
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!
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.
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- The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays
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