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Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.

PS2 Emulator PCSX2 2.0 is out now and it's a huge upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
PCSX2 is a popular open source emulation for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PCSX2 version 2.0 is now officially available with a great many changes and improvements.

Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games

By Liam Dawe,
While every month Valve has been posting a fresh set of the most played Steam Deck games for the previous month, they've now added a dedicated Steam Chart for it.

Open Source implementation of GOG Galaxy's Communication Service, Comet sees a first release

By Liam Dawe,
While it still has plenty of work ahead of it, Comet is a very promising project to bring the full power of GOG Galaxy over to Linux without needing to run their client in Wine.

NVIDIA driver 555.58 released as stable bringing Wayland Explicit Sync

By Liam Dawe,
The time is finally here. The next big stable update to the NVIDIA proprietary driver for Linux with version 555.58 bringing Wayland Explicit Sync.

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today

By Liam Dawe,
Are those some spots I see in the mirror? Must be the teens. GamingOnLinux, the website, is another year older today and I'm still blown away by what we've achieved together. 15 years! I can hardly believe it.

Steam Summer Sale 2024 is live now

By Liam Dawe,
Here it is once again. It's that time of the year. Valve have opened the floodgates for you to throw money at your screen during the Steam Summer Sale 2024.

Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader 3.0 gets a first pre-release

By Liam Dawe,
Decky Loader is a very popular tool to add plugins to the Steam Deck Gaming Mode, and Decky Loader 3.0 should be a big improvement.

Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not

By Liam Dawe,
While other vendors continually push out new handheld pc models, sticking similar internals into different shell designs and gradually bumping up RAM or the Processor, the Steam Deck just keeps selling like hot tasty cakes.

Bazzite 3.5 gets updated NVIDIA drivers, expanded handheld support (including Steam Deck OLED)

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite is one of the best options to get Linux on various gaming handhelds, and the 3.5.0 release is out now that has improvements pretty much everywhere with expanded hardware support.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' gets a Beta release

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' has a first Beta release available for testing, built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 it will be supported until 2029.

Popular multiplayer code editor Zed gets a Linux release

By Liam Dawe,
A little break in the gaming news for a moment to mention that Zed, a "high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter", now has a Linux version available.

Here's how to fix the ELDEN RING 'inappropriate activity' issue on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
A new patch has been rolled out for ELDEN RING, and it's supposed to fix the inappropriate activity detected message from their anti-cheat with a bit of manual effort. Here's what to do.

The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

Endless launch Block Coding for Godot Engine, great for beginners

By Liam Dawe,
Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE released on GOG plus new giveaway

By Liam Dawe,
For the GOG fans amongst the GamingOnLinux readership, there's another big DRM-free release available with METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE. Plus, another giveaway.

Aspyr Media announce a STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter remaster arriving on August 1

By Liam Dawe,
2002 is calling. STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter is making a return and coming to PC from Aspyr Media, with their remaster arriving on August 1st.

Wine 9.12 brings a rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine, Mono updates

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 9.12 has landed bringing the latest development work into a new release for the Windows compatibility layer, part of what makes up Steam Play Proton.

All KINGDOM HEARTS games now Steam Deck Verified (plus more games)

By Liam Dawe,
Good news KINGDOM HEARTS fans. All of the titles currently available on Steam have now been tested by Valve and given the fancy green Steam Deck Verified tick.

Sci-fi racing platformer Distance gets a surprise update with Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Distance is a name I've not heard for a while. A really good fun sci-fi racing platformer from developer Refract that released in 2018, and they're bringing it back for v1.5: The Kinetic Update.