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Proton Experimental fixes up Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, No Man's Sky

By Liam Dawe,
Proton Experimental from Valve has been upgraded fixing up some more problematic games for Steam Deck and Linux Desktop.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 27: Lost Souls

By Hamish,
I have mentioned before how I was unable to get Dave Taylor's original port of Doom to work as it was built as an outdated a.out binary rather than ELF. Since then, I stumbled on an article by Jason Heiss that describes how to load the binfmt_aout kernel module to attain a.out binary support, as well as installing packages from earlier Red Hat Linux releases to provide the necessary libraries.

Flathub seeks funding to add payments, donations and subscriptions

By Liam Dawe,
Making the rounds recently is a proposal being made to add in payments, donations and subscriptions options to Flathub.

Kubuntu Focus announce the second-gen mini desktop Focus NX

By Liam Dawe,
Need some power in a small box with full Linux support? The Kubuntu Focus team recently revealed their second-generation Focus NX.

Wayland driver for Wine is getting closer

By Liam Dawe,
Back late last year, Collabora developer Alexandros Frantzis blogged about a whole lot of work going into getting full Wayland support for Wine and now a big first step towards it being included in Wine is happening.

Beat Hazard 3 gets a "Huge" optimization for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Beat Hazard 3 is a music-driven twin-stick shooter currently in Early Access, and it should now play a whole lot better on Steam Deck.

ScummVM 2.7.0 'The Real Slim Shader' supports even more classics

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM 2.7.0, The Real Slim Shader, is officially out now bringing more compatibility for retro titles to modern platforms so here's what's new.

Open source tabletop game simulator gets a second Beta release

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and getting better all the time. Tabletop Club has a fresh Beta release available with a whole lot of fixes and improvements.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is the public once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month. Also a good reminder of our stats system for people who don't know about it.

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins

By Liam Dawe,
Well, this is certainly fun to see. X-Plane 12 now makes use of the open source Zink driver, for doing OpenGL over Vulkan.

Flycast emulator for Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 gets a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Oh wow, I loved my old SEGA Dreamcast before it sadly ended up at a tech graveyard. For fans of emulation, the Flycast emulator has a new release out.

Get some awesome puzzle games in this latest game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Busy weekend? No? How about some fresh games! Humble Bundle has put up a pretty darn good collection in the latest bundle.

Check out the Safe in Our World Charity Bundle 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Mental health charity, Safe In Our World, which focuses on the video game industry has teamed up with Fanatical for a full charity bundle full of games.

Totally Accurate Battlegrounds now works on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds got upgraded recently due to needing to implement new anti-cheat, and thanks to that this free to play game now works on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

Stellaris: First Contact releasing March 14th with a free update

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox have announced that the Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack will be releasing on March 14th, along with the Canis Minor free update for all players.

ChimeraOS 39 released switching to the new Steam Big Picture Mode

By Liam Dawe,
ChimeraOS, the Linux distribution designed for couch gaming much like SteamOS, has version 39 out now. This is the first release since Valve swapped to the New Big Picture Mode from the Steam Deck.

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 23.0.0 has been released today upgrading open source graphics drivers for Linux. As usual you should wait for the first point release for stability.

Valve reveals a whole bunch of upcoming Steam Sales

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now revealed most of their upcoming big Steam Sales and Steam Fests, here's all the details.

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps

By Liam Dawe,
Canonical has announced a change in the packaging defaults for the various "flavours" like Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie and so on to exclude Flatpak and stick with Snap.

No Man's Sky Fractal gets a VR overhaul, new Expedition, Gyro update

By Liam Dawe,
No Man's Sky has another big update out now that includes an overhaul of quite a few features like much better VR support, and a new Expedition.