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Two years on, Stadia seems to have no direction left

By Liam Dawe,
What initially seemed like a really promising idea, to give you gaming on any device and wherever you are has turned into something of a let-down overall.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player mod is out now

By Liam Dawe,
While the actual single-player campaign of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory never officially happened, a modder has now released their attempt to bring it back with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player.

Steam Client update adds CEG DRM support for Proton, VA-API hardware encoding

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released the latest big update to the Steam client, after a good while of Beta versions bringing with it some major new features - especially on the Linux side.

Proton Experimental update fixes up DEATHLOOP, Forza Horizon 5 and more

By Liam Dawe,
More fixes made their way into Proton Experimental yesterday, with Valve / CodeWeavers fixing up some issues in a few different games.

APT 2.3.12 package manager released, will no longer let you break everything

By Liam Dawe,
After the issues that happened with Linus from Linus Tech Tips breaking Pop!_OS during the switch to Linux challenge, the APT package manager has been upgraded to prevent future issues happening.

Open Hexagon, a spiritual successor to Super Hexagon is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired firmly by Super Hexagon with approval from Terry Cavanagh, the fast-paced and adrenaline-inducing paced arcade experience Open Hexagon is now available after leaving Early Access. It's also open source!

NVIDIA takes on AMD FSR with their new open source Image Scaling

By Liam Dawe,
While NVIDIA has had DLSS available for a while, it does depend on game support with a compatible NVIDIA GPU. So we saw AMD come along with FidelityFX Super Resolution that worked across both vendors and now NVIDIA has something of an answer with their own open source Image Scaler.

Check out some upcoming games made with Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine is the feature-filled free and open source game engine. Want to see some games that are being made with it? Come take a look.

Valve adds documentation for Steam Deck development, suggests Manjaro Linux for now

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Deck delayed until February 2022, Valve has produced new developer documentation giving a helping hand to devs interested in testing ready for it using Linux.

The Khronos Group officially announces the Dynamic Rendering extension for Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Recently with the Vulkan 1.2.197 specification update, a new extension popped up that has plenty of developers happy with Dynamic Rendering and now The Khronos Group has formally announced it with a more detailed explanation.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation OpenRCT2 v0.3.5 brings new features

By Liam Dawe,
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.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

Valve upgrades Remote Play for Linux in the latest Steam Client Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released another update to the Steam Client Beta and they continue improving Remote Play for Linux players, likely for the upcoming Steam Deck support.

Microsoft Edge available officially for Linux today as a stable browser

By Liam Dawe,
Microsoft aren't a company we exactly cover often but it seems fitting to cover it here, especially given their history with Linux. Today they're properly releasing Edge for Linux.

Steam Play compatibility tool Luxtorpeda gets controller support, new tooling

By Liam Dawe,
Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play compatibility tool (like Proton) that allows you to run games from Steam using various different game engines and reimplementations.

Apogee Entertainment gets another remaster out with Monster Bash HD

By Liam Dawe,
Originally released back in the '90s, Monster Bash HD is a fresh remaster from Apogee Entertainment and Emberheart Games and it's available for Linux.

Proton Experimental gets more CEG DRM fixes, new fsync code

By Liam Dawe,
Recently Valve upgraded Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton that pulls in advancements first with support for their older CEG DRM and another new build is up.

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By Liam Dawe,
It has again been some time since we reached out to the community, so here's a reminder: we are completely funded by readers and we need your support.
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