The Khronos Group celebrate 25 years of open standards
The Khronos Group have released a series of videos today to celebrate 25 years of open standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and more.
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GE-Proton 10-30 released with fixes for Arknights Endfield and the EA app
There's a fresh February 2026 release of the popular community-maintained compatibility layer, with GE-Proton 10-30 available now.
Discord is about to require age verification for everyone
Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform.
KDE Linux gets performance improvements, new default apps and goes all-in on Flatpak
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Linux kernel 6.19 arrives and the next will be 7.0
Linus Torvalds announced Linux kernel 6.19 is officially out now and then next is planned to be the big 7.0 release.
Mesa 25.3.5 arrives with bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers
Over the weekend we saw the release of Mesa 25.3.5, as we near the end of updates to Mesa 25.3 with developers moving onto the upcoming Mesa 26.
Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK officially expands to include Direct3D 5 support
The Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK has version 1.3 out now, which officially expands it to also cover Direct3D 5 support for running more games on Linux.
Steam game People Playground hit by malware via the Steam Workshop
Oh dear. People Playground from mestiez / Studio Minus recently had a major problem with malware pretending to be a mod in the Steam Workshop.
Steam Early Access games can now have a planned release date listed
Answering calls from developers, Valve have tweaked Early Access game pages to allow developers to add a full release date.
Wine 11.2 released with optimizations in PDB loading, support for MSVC constructors
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Beaver city-builder Timberborn confirmed for launch on March 5
Easily one of the best city-builders around, Timberborn is set to leave Early Access on March 5th with a big update to the game.
Butcher by day, people hunter by night - ZOMBUTCHER sounds like a fun but gruesome sim
As a butcher you serve people meat, but what if the meat is also people? You can't help it in ZOMBUTCHER, since you're a Zombie.
Safe In Our World has a big Charity Bundle up on Fanatical with some great picks
Safe In Our World is a Mental Health charity that does some great work, and now you can support their mission while grabbing 22 games from Fanatical.
JSAUX announce a charging-friendly Steam Deck travel case
Accessory maker JSAUX just revealed their new "Double-Decker Travel Supply Case" for the Steam Deck LCD & OLED that's charging-friendly.
In the deck-builder Voraxis you're a parasite that eats through a living planet
Voraxis is a really interesting take on deck-building that has you play cards to eat through a living planet, with gameplay that really captured me.
System76 plans for COSMIC include Vulkan, HDR, gaming improvements and more
System76 have outlined some of their plans for upcoming upgrades to the new COSMIC desktop, and I have to admit I'm quite excited about what's coming to it.
Steam Beta fixes games from large libraries on Linux / SteamOS showing as not valid on current platform
Another day, another load of bug fixes coming from Valve for all Steam users and an especially nice one for Linux / SteamOS if you have a lot of games.
Hollow Knight gets a patch adding 21:9 & 16:10 resolution support and more
Team Cherry have given the original Hollow Knight a fresh coat of paint with a new patch out now to improve various parts of the classic metroidvania.
Check out the demo for Wireworks, a tower defense where you wire up modules to make weapons dance
Wireworks might be the most unique tower defense game I've ever played, with you building up weapons from modules you wire up to different logic blocks.
Zellah Games revealed the "next-gen" modding-friendly Skate Style for PC
While you can't play EA's skate. on SteamOS / Linux platforms, a new "next-gen" skateboarding game Skate Style has been revealed that you should keep an eye on.
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