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Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe,
Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.

Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.

Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the annual Best of lists, and so we can see what the most played games are across the whole of 2023 for the Steam Deck so here's what's up.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
It's coming up on Christmas now, and so GamingOnLinux will be going into it's usual mostly hibernating state to take a little break to recharge.

Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season

By Liam Dawe,
Need some fresh games for the holiday season? Got you covered here with some more games that have recently become fully Steam Deck Verified so you can click play and enjoy.

Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support

By Liam Dawe,
The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.

Steam Winter Sale 2023 is live, along with The Steam Awards voting

By Liam Dawe,
It is that time again! Valve launched the Steam Winter Sale 2023 and The Steam Awards are also open for voting for your favourite titles now too.

Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Liam Dawe,
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs

By Liam Dawe,
Have one of those fancy Apple Silicon Macs? Want to pop Linux on it? Check out Fedora Asahi Remix 39, the newly released Asahi Linux flagship distribution.

You can finally hide your naughty games on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a Steam Beta update to bring in some tweaks to the shopping cart, and finally allowing you to properly set certain games as private so no one can snoop on your gaming habits.

Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.

Check out your 2023 Year In Review on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
With 2023 coming to a close Valve have refreshed their Steam Year In Review page, so you can dive in and see everything you did and how it stacks up against others.

Steam Workshop gets even better with shareable Workshop Collections

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are really doing some good stuff with the updates to the Steam Workshop. On top of the new features added recently, they've also now put in Workshop Collections you can switch between and share around.

Claim a free copy of Lost Ruins during the GOG Winter Sale

By Liam Dawe,
The next free giveaway is live on GOG.com for their Winter Sale, so you've got 72 hours to grab it for keeps and it's quite a good one. It also has a Native Linux version.

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Dawe,
While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

ScummVM expands support for Macromedia Director

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM is an awesome project bringing new life to absolutely loads of classic games through the power of open source, and now they're expanding support for Macromedia Director games too.

Valve hands out lumps of coal to naughty Dota 2 players

By Liam Dawe,
In possibly one of the funniest moves I've seen from Valve recently, they're handing out lumps of coal when banning Dota 2 players.

Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now

By Liam Dawe,
We're reaching the end-game now Wine fans, the time for Wine 9.0 to release is quickly approaching with a second Release Candidate now available. Plus VKD3D-Proton also had a small update recently too!

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.
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