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Didn't last long: Back 4 Blood no longer working on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

Well, looks like the previous excitement around Back 4 Blood and the Open Beta for Linux users is over, as it appears whatever they tweaked recently now stops Linux players with Proton.

Valve puts up a Steam Deck trailer and the head of Xbox seems to really like it

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

Valve has remembered they have an official YouTube channel with the release of a new advert for the Steam Deck, plus the Steam Deck gets a nod of approval from an unlikely source.

Debian 11 "bullseye" is officially out now

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

Seeing more than two years in development, the Debian team has announced the release of Debian 11 "bullseye" as their latest major stable upgrade.

Wine 6.15 is out seeing more PE library conversions, work for the GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe, 15 Aug 2021

The latest and greatest development release is available for Wine so you can defeat those Sunday blues with some tasty fresh bottled code. Wine 6.15 brings various new features and bug fixes.

Zorin OS 16 Pro brings a little Windows 11 flavour to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

Zorin OS 16 Pro, the upcoming release that will replace Zorin OS Ultimate has been announced and one of the features they're showing off is a pre-made style to look like Windows 11.

Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu gets much improved performance and rendering accuracy

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

While it's still a real PITA to setup, the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu has released what they call Project Hades, a massive rewrite to their shader decompiler which is a big thing for it.

s&box from Facepunch 'works great' on the Steam Deck but no native Linux plans

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

s&box is the upcoming game from Facepunch Studios that acts as a sequel to Garry's Mod although it won't actually be Garry's Mod 2. Recently Facepunch were asked about Linux support since it uses Valve's Source 2 game engine.

Don't Starve Together: Waterlogged is out adding a new ocean biome

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

Ready to set sail once again? Don't Starve Together: Waterlogged is the latest free expansion for the popular gloomy survival game from Klei Entertainment.

Developer ehmprah gives an update on how Core Defense did a year later

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

Core Defense is a "roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding" and now it's been out for little over a year, developer ehmprah gives an overview of how the indie release went.

CS:GO gets some fun new music and a music video from various video game composers

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

Introduced back in 2014, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) added in Music Kits to replace music in game and to play if you're the MVP to bug everyone else with and they just released a fun sounding Tacticians Music Kit Box.

Proton 6.3-6 gets a Release Candidate with new game support and fixes

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

Valve and CodeWeavers are working towards a fresh release of Proton with plenty of goodies including like more games working, and plenty of bug fixes too.

Looks like the fresh Back 4 Blood Beta is working on Linux with Proton GE

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

Back 4 Blood is releasing in October from Turtle Rock Studios (original developer on Left 4 Dead) and they now have an Open Beta that anyone can try out and it appears to work with Proton GE.

Chaos is the name of the game in CreatorCrate as you devour everything

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

CreatorCrate from developer Jori Ryan is all about running around and causing chaos. It's fast, totally ridiculous and a lot of fun to blast through.

The V3DV Vulkan driver for Raspberry Pi 4 is nearing Vulkan 1.1 support

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

Iago Toral of Igalia has written up a blog post going over a bunch of work done for the V3DV Vulkan driver for Raspberry Pi 4 and it's coming along nicely.

Mojang continue tweaking Minecraft with a new Caves & Cliffs biome in testing

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

With the second part of the Caves & Cliffs update in progress, Mojang put up a snapshot to try in July and they've continued tweaking it since.

Polychromatic front-end for managing Razer hardware on Linux gets an overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

Do you have some Razer hardware? You need to take a look at Polychromatic, built on top of OpenRazer, it's a wonderful open source UI for managing all your Razer devices on Linux.

art of rally goes to Kenya in the latest free expansion

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

Stylish racing game art of rally has expanded again with another big free update taking the game to Kenya.

The Humble Big Brain Bundle has XCOM 2, 5D Chess, Battletech and more

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

After some strategy games? Humble have you covered with another pretty great bundle. The Humble Big Brain Bundle has some games well worth looking into.

Dungeon crawling adventure where you date your weapons Boyfriend Dungeon is out

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2021

Boyfriend Dungeon from Kitfox Games is out now and it's highly unusual. It merges together ideas from a dungeon crawler with a dating sim in a rather unique way.

elementary OS 6 Odin is an absolute beauty and it's out now

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2021

The Linux distribution elementary OS 6 Odin is finally here, coming in years after their last release and honestly - it really is a thing of absolute beauty.