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Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands releasing August 8

By Liam Dawe,
Following the Kickstarter success in 2019, Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands finally has a released date and it's coming soon on August 8th.

Vampire Survivors switching to new game engine on August 17

By Liam Dawe,
The smash indie hit Vampire Survivors is planning to finally move over to their newer and upgraded game engine on August 17th.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.31 released

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has released a fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver for developers with version 525.47.31 now available for testing.

Microsoft wins against FTC to buy Activision Blizzard

By Liam Dawe,
Well, the results are here. In the USA the FTC was trying to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard but Microsoft has won the fight.

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun now fully playable on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun was updated by Auroch Digital recently, and now it should be properly fully playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

The Khronos Group seeking paid devs to work on OpenXR runtime Monado

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group who oversee various standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenXR announced recently they've put up a "Request for Proposals" to fund work on Monado.

Valve release new stable update for Steam Deck and desktops

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has bundled up all the recent Beta updates for Steam Deck and desktop Steam into a fresh stable update so here's a list of what's new.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine gets upgraded

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh release went out recently for The Force Engine, a rebuilt game engine to play STAR WARS - Dark Forces and eventually Outlaws nicely on modern systems.

Linux hit over 3% desktop user share according to Statcounter

By Liam Dawe,
Do my eyes deceive me? Apparently not. According to Statcounter, the Linux share on the desktop has actually now passed 3% for the first time.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 30: Imperial Purple

By Hamish,
War! Age of Imperialism was in the first instance a board game, designed by Glenn Drover of Eagle Games. Players assume the role of a colonial empire intent on subjugating the rest of the world. Coverage at the time directed much praise to the game's artificial intelligence, which does make for a canny computer opponent.

Fanatical's Platinum Collection for July has Tails of Iron, Floppy Knights and more

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical put up another good looking bundle with their newest Platinum Collection for July 2023, here's all the games and what compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

I've spent way too much time playing Lost for Swords

By Liam Dawe,
Lost for Swords is an in-development turn-based roguelike card game with a unique twist, playable in your browser via itch.io it has sucked away a fair amount of my time recently.

Amazon Games support is coming soon to Heroic Games Launcher

By Liam Dawe,
The Heroic Games Launcher currently supports GOG, Epic Games and manual side-loading but Amazon Games support is also being worked on.

SteamVR improves controller support in v1.26

By Liam Dawe,
SteamVR will now play better with various types of controllers, thanks to the release of SteamVR version 1.26 bringing with it automatic controller rebinding.

Multi-vendor RGB controller app OpenRGB v0.9 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Cross-platform open source RGB controls continue getting better, with OpenRGB version 0.9 now available so here's what's new.

Free sandbox game inspired by Minecraft 'MineClone2' v0.84 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
MineClone2 continues getting better and better as a free and open source replacement of Minecraft, with version 0.84 out now. Here's a run over what's new and improved.

Fedora considering adding in 'privacy-preserving' telemetry

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a controversial topic currently floating around is that a change proposal has been made for Fedora Workstation 40 to have some "privacy-preserving" telemetry to "enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics".

Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library

By Liam Dawe,
Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Gears 5, Overwatch 2, Phasmophobia

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh upgrade to Proton Experimental to get more games like Gears 5, Overwatch 2 and Phasmophobia working better on Linux and Steam Deck.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Another biweekly release of the compatibility layer Wine is out now! As the developers continue the progress towards getting Wine working fully with Wayland in version 8.12.