Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.
A pretty nice month for those of you subscribing to Humble Choice, with November's bundle out now and here's a run over the Steam Deck and desktop Linux compatibility.
Sad news for anyone excited for Revenant Hill, which would have been the follow-up game to the exceptionally well reviewed indie game Night in the Woods as it has been cancelled.
Need some more games for your Steam Deck? Here's your mid-week listicle to highlight some interesting looking titles that have gained the full Steam Deck Verified certification from Valve.
One of the most popular titles on Steam, Apex Legends, has been left broken on Linux / Steam Deck for over a week now after the Ignite Update. You can fix it yourself though, if you want to risk it. ARTICLE UPDATED.
The Fedora team announced the release of Fedora Linux 39 yesterday November 7th, bringing with it GNOME 45 and a ton of other improvements for one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions.
The community-maintained GE-Proton compatibility layer has another small release out for Linux desktop / Steam Deck with GE-Proton 8-23 being released November 8th.
Valve released a fresh Proton Experimental update for Linux desktop / Steam Deck after a few weeks break that brings the usual assorted game fixes.
Here's something promising for the future of cross-platform mod support, as it seems the Nexus team are working on a new Nexus Mods App. It's in the very early stages (pre-alpha they say), but eventually they plan to have it replace the popular Vortex but it's quite a long time away from that just yet.
Valve has released a fresh Beta and Preview update for the Steam Deck, which tweaks some existing features like the refresh rate and frame limit sliders to merge them into one slider to rule them all.
After being in Early Access since 2019 and multiple launch windows missed, the Quake engine powered retro shooter WRATH: Aeon of Ruin finally has an actual real release date. No, I can't quite believe it either.
Space-cat survival and base-building game MewnBase has now left Early Access, for those of you who love your smaller games it's a nice pick.
Now that the dust seems to be settling after the absolute chaos that was the new Runtime Fee announcement and the developer fallout that followed, Unity has now properly updated their Unity Editor Software Terms.
A few days ago we reported that Humble was putting several games rated 9 and up by IGN into a bundle. Now it appears that Humble has expanded that to a full on sale with many more IGN rated 9 and up games all up for grabs at reduced cost.
Having already played the Abuse Linux shareware, the next step seemed to be getting my hands on the registered version. Abuse was later picked up to be published by Origin Systems and Electronic Arts in 1996. Clearly not everything was an improvement, but it was this release that would have its source code opened up in 1997, allowing for the creation of source ports.
Need some new games for your Steam Deck or other handheld? Humble Store just launched a dedicated Handheld Friendly Sale.
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a frontend for browsing and launching games from your multi-platform game collection, it's pretty great and the latest version 2.2 is out now with loads of improvements and new system additions.
Path of Titans is steadily building up to be a really good-looking dinosaur survival MMO, and with the Pounce Update the combat should be a lot more exciting now too.
Heroic Games Launcher has a big UI upgrade coming in the 3.0 update which isn't quite ready yet, but they have just released Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 which has some essential fixes for this popular multi-platform game manager.
Inspired by classic isometric RPGs, Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness released back in 2022 and the developers are coming back for a DLC expansion and a free update.