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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun now fully playable on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun was updated by Auroch Digital recently, and now it should be properly fully playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

The Khronos Group seeking paid devs to work on OpenXR runtime Monado

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group who oversee various standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenXR announced recently they've put up a "Request for Proposals" to fund work on Monado.

Valve release new stable update for Steam Deck and desktops

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has bundled up all the recent Beta updates for Steam Deck and desktop Steam into a fresh stable update so here's a list of what's new.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine gets upgraded

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh release went out recently for The Force Engine, a rebuilt game engine to play STAR WARS - Dark Forces and eventually Outlaws nicely on modern systems.

Linux hit over 3% desktop user share according to Statcounter

By Liam Dawe,
Do my eyes deceive me? Apparently not. According to Statcounter, the Linux share on the desktop has actually now passed 3% for the first time.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 30: Imperial Purple

By Hamish,
War! Age of Imperialism was in the first instance a board game, designed by Glenn Drover of Eagle Games. Players assume the role of a colonial empire intent on subjugating the rest of the world. Coverage at the time directed much praise to the game's artificial intelligence, which does make for a canny computer opponent.

Fanatical's Platinum Collection for July has Tails of Iron, Floppy Knights and more

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical put up another good looking bundle with their newest Platinum Collection for July 2023, here's all the games and what compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

I've spent way too much time playing Lost for Swords

By Liam Dawe,
Lost for Swords is an in-development turn-based roguelike card game with a unique twist, playable in your browser via itch.io it has sucked away a fair amount of my time recently.

Amazon Games support is coming soon to Heroic Games Launcher

By Liam Dawe,
The Heroic Games Launcher currently supports GOG, Epic Games and manual side-loading but Amazon Games support is also being worked on.

SteamVR improves controller support in v1.26

By Liam Dawe,
SteamVR will now play better with various types of controllers, thanks to the release of SteamVR version 1.26 bringing with it automatic controller rebinding.

Multi-vendor RGB controller app OpenRGB v0.9 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Cross-platform open source RGB controls continue getting better, with OpenRGB version 0.9 now available so here's what's new.

Free sandbox game inspired by Minecraft 'MineClone2' v0.84 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
MineClone2 continues getting better and better as a free and open source replacement of Minecraft, with version 0.84 out now. Here's a run over what's new and improved.

Fedora considering adding in 'privacy-preserving' telemetry

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a controversial topic currently floating around is that a change proposal has been made for Fedora Workstation 40 to have some "privacy-preserving" telemetry to "enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics".

Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library

By Liam Dawe,
Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Gears 5, Overwatch 2, Phasmophobia

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh upgrade to Proton Experimental to get more games like Gears 5, Overwatch 2 and Phasmophobia working better on Linux and Steam Deck.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Another biweekly release of the compatibility layer Wine is out now! As the developers continue the progress towards getting Wine working fully with Wayland in version 8.12.

MicroProse now publishing Dying Breed a retro RTS like Command & Conquer

By Liam Dawe,
Announced today, Dying Breed from Sarnayer that blends together the classic style and gameplay in the original Command & Conquer but with Zombies is now being published by MicroProse.

Steam Beta improves Openbox support and fixes focus issues with AMD / Intel

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Steam Beta update was put out for desktop and Steam Deck, it comes with a whole bunch of little bug fixes and improvements. Especially nice on desktop if you have AMD or Intel GPUs.

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

By Liam Dawe,
Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.