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Part 4 of the Wine work for Wayland is now merged
The fourth part of an ongoing series of submission to Wine to get full Wayland support has been merged in.
Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)
Here's an interesting one on Steam publishing for you. Valve appear to be clamping down on AI art used in games due to the murky legal waters. UPDATE: Valve gave a statement.
AMD RADV gets feature to help emulation and translation layers
Some fun news for AMD GPU owners with the open source RADV (Vulkan) Mesa driver, as it recently gained support for fragment shader interlock. This will be useful for emulation and translation layers.
Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live with the Steam Deck up to 20% off
Today the Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live once again, where a great many developers put up big discounts for their games. You know the drill right? Your wallet is already hiding from you.
System76 reveal the 'Nebula' a new PC case for everyone
After building up their in-house manufacturing capabilities with their custom Thelio desktop and their Launch keyboards, System76 are now expanding into PC cases for everyone.
The SHARGE Disk could be a useful Steam Deck storage sidekick
I'm currently keeping an eye on the SHARGE Disk, a really small M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure that can plug directly into the Steam Deck (and many other devices).
Cassette Beasts adds new monsters, plus multiplayer and DLC coming
Cassette Beasts is easily one of the best releases this year, and possibly one of the best creature / monster collecting games in modern times too. It's also about to get bigger!
ckb-next for configuring Corsair keyboards and mice v0.6 out now
Do you own a Corsair keyboard or mouse? Well you should take a look at ckb-next, which just had a new release bringing support for even more new hardware.
Dwarf Fortress getting close to a Linux release on Steam
Dwarf Fortress from Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games just had a big tech upgrade, and it sounds like their Native Linux release is coming quite soon.
A round-up of recent Steam Deck news for you
Have little time? Always on the go? Need a refresher of recent Steam Deck news? Got you covered here, come get your little fix.
Blender v3.6 is out now as a new long-term support release
Showing many companies how open source can be seriously successful, Blender version 3.6 is out now and it's a long-term support release so it would be good to upgrade and stick with it for a while.
Aliens: Dark Descent is very real-time XCOM and I love it
Finally, another Aliens game to sink my teeth into. I've been playing Aliens: Dark Descent and overall I'm pretty damn happy with the experience.
One Lonely Outpost to get Linux support around the full release
After a bit of a development hiccup changing developers after the crowdfunding campaign, One Lonely Outpost has hit Early Access with Linux support planned later.
Planetary Life is a neat looking indie sandbox evolution sim
Developer Sotenbox recently put up a trailer for Planetary Life, a pretty neat looking entry into the evolution simulation genre.
The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 has some real indie gems
Another chance for you to pick up a few sweet games while also saving your pennies. The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 is live.
Proton Experimental fixes up Street Fighter 6 and other games
For Steam Deck and Linux desktop, Valve has released another Proton Experimental upgrade focusing on fixing up bugs and regressions.
Open source Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH v0.67 gets a first Beta
Oh goodie, goodbye again free time. Remember the classic Theme Hospital? CorsixTH is a free, open source and cross-platform game engine to keep it looking good on modern systems and a new release is getting close.
Steam Deck compatibility with Starfield to be discussed "later down the road"
Starfield is set to release on September 6th and there's obviously a lot of excitement around it but will it work on Valve's Steam Deck? That's not currently clear.
Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming
Valve clearly still have plenty of big ambitions for Linux gaming and Steam Deck, and as it turns out recently they pulled in yet another developer to work on open source graphics drivers.
The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well
A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.
- Pricing announced for the Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux
- Vulkan API developers try to address some developer frustrations with a new extension
- Mecha BREAK now Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible ahead of release
- A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support
- 10 years after release Dying Light: Retouched is a nice upgrade for the Techland zombie game
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