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Mewgenics is weird, completely chaotic and it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is officially out now, and it will absolutely annihilate your free time.

The Khronos Group celebrate 25 years of open standards

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
There's a fresh February 2026 release of the popular community-maintained compatibility layer, with GE-Proton 10-30 available now.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization

By Hamish,
Civilization: Call to Power is a curious cultural artifact in a number of ways.

Discord is about to require age verification for everyone

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE developers are working towards the first Beta release of KDE Linux, their own home-grown immutable operating system.

Linux kernel 6.19 arrives and the next will be 7.0

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 11.2 is the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer towards Wine 12 early next year.

Beaver city-builder Timberborn confirmed for launch on March 5

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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.