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Raspberry Pi 4 gets a graphics bump with Vulkan 1.2 conformance

By Liam Dawe,
Are you still enjoying your Raspberry Pi 4? Well, there's a graphics bump coming thanks to all the work in the drivers with it hitting Vulkan 1.2 conformance.

SteamOS 3.3 and Steam Deck Client updates released for all users

By Liam Dawe,
All the latest Beta and Preview changes from Valve have gone live with SteamOS 3.3 and all the Steam Deck Client updates are now available for all users.

OBS Studio 28.0 Beta 1 brings Linux improvements, lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio is getting another major version bump with OBS Studio 28.0 Beta 1 now available for testing. Lots of big features included in this one, plus some nice Linux client updates.

Humble Choice has The Ascent, Hot Wheels Unleashed, A Plague Tale: Innocence

By Liam Dawe,
It's a fresh month which means a new curated monthly bundle with the Humble Choice, so here's what's inside and what you can expect on Linux and Steam Deck.

DXVK 1.10.3 out with work for Halo Infinite plus better Stray performance for Proton

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK is a Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer used in Proton, to help run Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck. A new release version 1.10.3 is out now.

Check out the new Scrabdackle demo, a scribbly hand-drawn Zelda-like adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Go on a bit of adventure as a Wizard in Scrabdackle, you just have to find your wand first. This scribbly-art hand-drawn adventure is ridiculously charming.

Frogun is a 3D platformer with the soul of a Nintendo 64 game

By Liam Dawe,
Frogun is a brand new Native Linux release, designed in the spirit of the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64 era, this is a proper classic 3D platformer.

BLASTRONAUT is a fresh mining game full of explosions

By Liam Dawe,
Love exploration and mining? Want to do it with many explosions? Check out the new Native Linux release of BLASTRONAUT.

ScummVM 2.6.0 out now with more retro game support

By Liam Dawe,
Keeping a great many classics alive with new game engines, ScummVM version 2.6.0 is officially out now.

Free first-person strategy shooter Unvanquished version 0.53 out now

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source first-person strategy shooter Unvanquished has a new Beta release, which is quite a big one too overall on what's changed.

Inspired by classic JRPGs, Shadows of Adam gets improved Linux and Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Shadows of Adam is a JRPG inspired retro game from Something Classic Games that released back in 2017 and a small update came recently to improve it on Linux and Steam Deck.

Linux user share on Steam continues rising — highest for years again

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has put out their usual monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey and it's looking like good news for Linux and Steam Deck once again.

Steam Deck Beta update brings bug fixes, external display improvement

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released a small update to the Steam Deck Beta branch, mostly bug fixes but also an improvement for handling external displays. Here's what's new.

Stealth-action game Republique is now FREE and Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Consider this your quick tip of the week, as Republique from developer Camouflaj is now free to keep on Steam and it's also Steam Deck Verified!

No need to wait on Valve, the Steam Deck Docking Station from JSAUX is great

By Liam Dawe,
While many will no doubt wait on Valve for the official Steam Deck Dock, a lot of hardware vendors are coming out with their own versions. JSAUX are one of them and they sent over their Docking Station for Steam Deck for me to take a look at.

Steam gets support for Nintendo Online classic controllers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve recently released an update for the main Steam client, which amongst other things brings support in Steam Input for the Nintendo Online classic controllers.

Valve bans devs from adding review scores and awards on Steam store assets

By Liam Dawe,
There's a lot of places where developers can have their game logo across Steam, and some developers have been going pretty overboard with noisy images filled with extras. Valve is putting a stop to it.

Mojang rolls out Player Chat Reporting into Minecraft Java

By Liam Dawe,
Minecraft Java Edition 1.19.1 is out now and it comes with some controversial changes, that many players are not particularly happy about.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.6.8 out now

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud is probably one of my favourite open source projects giving Linux gamers a fancy HUD to display various performance metrics in a nice overlay. Version 0.6.8 is out now!

OpenRazer new release adding support for more Razer hardware on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Razer make some pretty fancy hardware but, like a lot of vendors, don't exactly support Linux directly and so the OpenRazer project helps you out there.