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Have you picked up anything during Steam Sports Fest 2023?
Steam Sports Fest has officially begun (I'm a little late on that) and it runs until May 22nd, so you've got plenty of time to check it out.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.24 brings new extensions, 4GB+ pipeline caches support
NVIDIA have a brand new release of their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver with v525.47.24 available now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Wayland Is Here: Let Xorg Finally Retire!
I bothered quite a few people with a recent post about RHEL deprecating Xorg but I stand by what I said and recently Hector Martin the developer of Asahi Lin...YouTube
Emberbane is an epic pixel art metroidvania inspired by Avatar: The Last Airbender
Any Avatar: The Last Airbender fans around? Hamlet Games are developing Emberbane, an action-packed epic metroidvania platformer inspired by Avatar.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valheim has a performance boost patch in Beta
Valheim is a fantastic game but it could do with some optimisations, especially when you're building up a big castle and whatever else people come up with. Thankfully Iron Gate have put out some improvements.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Fanatical offering a new Premium Steam Deck Bundle
With a whole bunch of games that are Steam Deck Verified, the new Play on the Go Premium Edition Bundle from Fanatical may be worth a look.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam gets game trials with Dead Space being first, plus Valve dumps Google Analytics
Two bits of Steam news for you here, as Valve continue iterating on Steam features for players and developers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
uBlue Linux From A Hobby To A Full Blown Distro
Nowadays uBlue Linux is a project that many people find use with but when it first started it was really just a side project of Jorge to address his personal...YouTube
Fanatical's Bundle Fest begins with the Killer Bundle 26
Fanatical do a Bundle Fest every now and then, where a new bundle of games is announced every day for a week and the first is the Killer Bundle 26.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Roblox still plan to make it work with Wine on Linux
The situation is currently a bit messy, with conflicting statements but it appears that Roblox should work again on Linux / Steam Deck with Wine eventually.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Albion Online 'Knightfall' is here with new content and improved controls
Offering up plenty of new content for players to explore, the Knightfall update for Albion Online is here and it may be time to give it another look.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Time running out to swap your Minecraft account over to Microsoft
Mojang recently sent out a rather important reminder, as the time is running out to swap your Mojang account for Minecraft over to Microsoft.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
COSMIC desktop from System76 coming along nicely
System76 are busy hacking away on their new upcoming COSMIC desktop environment, and their latest development blog post is looking good.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
If You Like… Diablo
There shouldn’t be any arguments when I claim that the original Diablo was a masterpiece. Launched in the 90’s, it defined a new genre of dungeon crawling, successfully mixing traditional Rogue/Nethack elements with beautiful visuals, real-time comba…scaine (GamingOnLinux)
Humble Store's Spring Sale 2023 has tons of great deals
Here's your next chance to pick up some absolute bargains, as Humble Store are running their Spring Sale for 2023 which is live until May 23rd.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
How One Linux MAN Easter Egg Caused Chaos
I love easter eggs in software and this one man easter egg particular so, not because of the easter egg itself more because of the confusion around the whole...YouTube
Dead by Daylight gets Steam Deck Verified
Well, I've been waiting to see what the public official word would be on Dead by Daylight and now it's official. Dead by Daylight is now Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Get MONSTER HUNTER RISE and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen in this game bundle
Need even more games? You can't possibly, you already have hundreds (thousands?) but a few more can't hurt right? A fresh Humble Bundle is up to help you save some monies.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Wine 8.8 is out now with more PE work, initial support for ARM64EC modules
Time for a bit of weekend Wine? The translation layer for running Windows games and apps on Linux and other platforms development release v8.8 is out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ChimeraOS 42, the Linux distro for handhelds and consoles v42 is out
Want to get Linux onto your handheld PC or your living room PC console? ChimeraOS is probably what you're going to want and version 42 has just been released.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mechabellum is an auto-battling Supreme Commander - I'm completely hooked
Mechabellum is a new Early Access release from Game River and Paradox Arc (the publishing arm of Paradox Interactive). It's an auto-battler like say Dota Underlords and Auto Chess, but with big mech units with battles like Supreme Commander.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
DXVK 2.2 released supporting D3D11On12, plus improvements for game launchers
DXVK translates Direct3D 9 / 10 and 11 into Vulkan for Proton and Wine, used on Linux desktop and Steam Deck for gaming.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
World Turtles is a city-builder on the back of a space turtle out now
City-builders come in all shapes and sizes and now you can build on the back of a massive turtle flying through space in World Turtles.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Immutable Linux Distro Is A Terrible Term
Immutable distros have been gaining a lot of popularity but a lot of people involved in the space aren't big fans of the term itself and maybe image based wo...YouTube
Mesa graphics drivers 23.1.0 out now with RADV GPL enabled
Another fresh release of Mesa is now available, the set of open source graphics drivers for Linux and Steam Deck with v23.1.0 out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Explosive exploration-mining game BLASTRONAUT gets a watery upgrade
BLASTRONAUT is a bit of an indie gem, a mining exploration game about blowing up the world beneath you to collect resources. The latest update is a bit wet.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Get a free copy of Hotshot Racing during the Fanatical May Madness Sale
Game store Fanatical are offering up a free copy of Hotshot Racing if your join their newsletter, during their big May Madness Sale.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
We have to wait a bit longer for Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight is probably one of the most popular 2D metroidvania action-adventures available on PC and the follow-up, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is looking like it's going to take a while longer to release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#167 Creator Of uBlue Linux | Jorge Castro
Today we have a really interesting guest, right now he's focused on Universal Blue Linux otherwise just called uBlue but he's been around in the Linux world ...YouTube
Get MONSTER HUNTER RISE and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen in this game bundle
Need even more games? You can't possibly, you already have hundreds (thousands?) but a few more can't hurt right? A fresh Humble Bundle is up to help you save some monies.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities
Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.Discord
Dead by Daylight gets Steam Deck Verified
Well, I've been waiting to see what the public official word would be on Dead by Daylight and now it's official. Dead by Daylight is now Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Last of Us closer to playable on Steam Deck, but the Deck still has RAM problems
The Last of Us Part I from Naughty Dog has another big performance patch out, and the result on Steam Deck is quite surprising. But the Steam Deck still suffers from a major problem.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translator D8VK 'production-ready' 1.0 is out now
D8VK translates Direct3D 8 to Vulkan, just like DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 used with Wine and Proton on Linux and Steam Deck. Fantastic to see the progress on this.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Humble Store's Spring Sale 2023 has tons of great deals
Here's your next chance to pick up some absolute bargains, as Humble Store are running their Spring Sale for 2023 which is live until May 23rd.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Stellaris: Galactic Paragons released, along with free 3.8 update adding co-op modes
A big one for Stellaris is here with the Stellaris: Galactic Paragons expansion launched along with the 3.8 "Gemini" patch for all players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Open source evolution sim Thrive adds prototypes for going on land
Thrive is a free and open source in-development evolution sim, a bit like a more scientific version of EA's Spore and Thrive 0.6.2 expands the gameplay even more with some new prototypes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 re-implementation OpenRCT2 now lets trains go backwards
Another wonderful update to OpenRCT2 is live, the re-implementation of the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 bringing some new features and plenty of fixes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)