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System76 creating their own desktop environment written in Rust

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2021

Do we need another desktop environment? There's already KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon and the list goes on for a while. System76 at least seem to think another is needed, one they control.

Time to update your Raspberry Pi with the new OS based on Debian 'bullseye'

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2021

It's that time! The Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian) has done a major upgrade moving the package base from Debian buster to Debian bullseye.

Fantastic retro-FPS DUSK gets The New and Old Update for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

A little later than expected but DUSK now has The New and Old Update available in the native Linux version.

Paradox continue attempting to make Surviving Mars: Below and Beyond worth it

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

Surviving Mars: Below and Beyond released back in early September, and to say the reviews have been poor would be quite the understatement but they're continuing to try and improve it.

Valheim gets another small release fixing up crashes, a little optimization too

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

Ahead of another week of survival, Iron Gate has updated their popular co-op survival game Valheim with a mixture of different improvements

Splitgate expands the options available for making Custom Games more unique

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

1047 Games recently released a big update to Splitgate, their free to play first-person shooter with portals to enable players to make more interesting Custom Games.

Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 v0.9.9 further improves the original

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

Another great sounding releasing for the game engine reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) is available right now to play on modern systems.

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed details Steam Deck support, shows a quick video

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is another developer who will be ensuring their games works nicely with the Valve Steam Deck.

Bohemia Interactive are 'looking into' DayZ for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

One tough uphill battle currently facing Steam Play Proton and the Steam Deck is still anti-cheat. While there has been improvements, it's still not an ideal situation but at least one more developer is looking into it with Bohemia Interactive for DayZ.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation OpenRCT2 v0.3.5 brings new features

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2021

OpenRCT2 continues being an impressive free and open source game engine reimplementation for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, allowing you to play it nicely cross-platform on modern systems.

Open source game development levels up with Godot Engine 3.4 out now

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2021

Probably the most exciting free and open source game engine around, Godot Engine has a brand new release available.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 6.21 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2021

More fixes and new features are ready for another development release with Wine 6.21 going out, the compatibility layer for Windows games and applications.

9 years ago Valve put out a Beta of Steam for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2021

9 years to the day, Valve officially put up a limited Beta release of the Steam Client for Linux. It's safe to say it's been a rather bumpy but exciting ride.

Supporting Linux / Proton and the Steam Deck with BattlEye is just an email away

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2021

Recently we had announcements from both Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye in regards to Linux, specifically for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer and the Steam Deck and now BattlEye are making it easier.

Liftoff: Micro Drones races off into Early Access on November 30

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2021

Get ready for a race around various indoor arenas in the upcoming Liftoff: Micro Drones, as it's now confirmed to be releasing in Early Access on November 30 with Linux support.

Total War: WARHAMMER III launches February 17 - 2022, Linux port soon after

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2021

Creative Assembly has now confirmed that Total War: WARHAMMER III will be officially launching on February 17, 2022 but if you're waiting on the Linux port it will be a little after.

OpenMW brings many new features for Morrowind in the new 0.47.0 release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2021

Rejoice RPG fans! There's a fresh and fancy new release of OpenMW, the free and open source game engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

It's the wild west out there as EVGA confirm GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs stolen from truck

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2021

As if it wasn't bad enough that crypto mining has eaten up GPU reserves, bots keep taking orders as they come out and worldwide shortages all leading to high prices and low stock - now people are going on heists to nick 'em.

Proton Experimental gets Disgaea 4 & Mafia II working plus CEG startup improvements

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2021

More quick fixes coming in recently for Proton Experimental to get even more Windows games to play nicely on Linux with this compatibility layer. - Improve startup time of games using CEG DRM.

The TUXEDO Nano Pro is a powerhouse in a tiny box

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2021

Looking for something small yet mighty? The TUXEDO Nano Pro was just announced and not only is it tiny, it seems like it will pack quite the performance punch with AMD Ryzen.