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Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here.

A brand new version of fheroes2 is out now, the open source and cross-platform Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine reimplementation.

Warzone 2100 is an excellent classic real-time strategy (RTS) game that continues living on thanks to the open source community, with a huge new release out.

Warzone 2100 is an excellent classic real-time strategy (RTS) game that continues living on thanks to the open source community, with a huge new release out.

Bazzite Linux is easily one of the most popular gaming-focused Linux builds to run on handhelds and gaming PCs, with a major new update launched. With Bazzite being based on Fedora, they’re also gearing up towards the upcoming Fedora 44 release that’s due next week. So we can look forward to even more improvements there once they rebase their packages onto Fedora 44 too.

With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here’s what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.

Valve launched the latest upgrade to Proton Experimental, their staging ground for all the latest fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS.

Wine is the base for Proton, which lets windows games run on the Deck.

Improved streaming quality and connection stability for an app like this can actually be pretty meaningful, so I figured it was worth sharing.

Basically you can now manage the download screen of your deck from a PC client. I haven’t gotten to try it yet, but my understanding is that the deck needs to be on for this to work, but it will work if the deck is already in the “screen off downloading updates” state.

Important to note that the results are a bit weird though for the last couple months.

Fancy a new type of simulator? How about flying your own seaplane? Lakehopper has launched into Early Access on Steam with Linux support.

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Hardware vendor Framework has now become a KDE Patron, offering financial support to further push open source like the Plasma desktop. Framework join the likes of Google, Canonical, Blue Systems, Qt Group and others in supporting KDE directly.

Developer Martin Wimpress has announced their intention to move on from Ubuntu MATE, and so the distribution is looking for fresh faces.

Love a good point and click adventure comedy? Less Miserables is an upcoming point-and-click parody of Les Misérables.

Duck Side of the Moon looks like a wonderful cozy adventure game about an astronaut duck searching for a new home in a whimsical galaxy.

Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/gaming@lemmy.zip/t/1521509

One missed from the other week is The 7th Guest Remake got announced, bringing the classic haunted mansion adventure into modern times. Coming from Vertigo Games and Exkee, if you love exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky setting this might be one to stick on your wishlist.

If you’re struggling to decide on what to pick up during the Steam Spring Sale 2026 - got you covered. Here’s a bunch of great games at under £5.

Inspired by the classic stealth game series Thief, the free and open source project The Dark Mod has a new release out.

Ready for some more investigating? The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon from Spooky Doorway has a first demo available with Linux support.

Inspired by the classic stealth game series Thief, the free and open source project The Dark Mod has a new release out.

The OpenTTD developers have released a statement to clarify some confusion and misinformation on the Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release from Atari. As covered recently on GamingOnLinux, if you want to grab OpenTTD from GOG or Steam now, you have to actually buy the classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe. This does not affecting grabbing it from their website directly.

The 0.3 update for Vectorio is finally here, after a year of work from BN Games to overhaul practically everything and it sounds awesome.

The Arch-based Linux distribution EndeavourOS Titan is out now, bringing with it plenty of nice sounding upgrades and some comments on age verification.

ARC Raiders is still one of the most popular games around right now, and thankfully some of the generative AI voices are getting replaced.

The free and open source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting easier to use with Steam, with the devs announcing a useful new feature.

The free and open source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting easier to use with Steam, with the devs announcing a useful new feature.

At one point it seemed like Manjaro Linux would be the most popular Arch-based distribution, but after many missteps it appears to be at breaking point.

Another fresh release of the free and open source OpenRazer has arrived, with v3.12.0 adding support for even more Razer devices on Linux. Who needs direct vendor support with their bloated apps anyway? The community provides!

Found this:

sudo apt purge lutris r.i.p.

HORSES from Andrea Lucco Borlera / Santa Ragione hit the headlines last year for getting banned on Steam and Epic Games, but they’ve still won the Nuovo Award.

A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago “is lutris slop now” and noted an increasing amount of “LLM generated commits”. To which the Lutris creator replied:

A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago “is lutris slop now” and noted an increasing amount of “LLM generated commits”. To which the Lutris creator replied:

If you want to do livestreaming or video recording on Linux, OBS Studio is easily the best free and open source app you can get for it and v32.1.0 is out now

There’s a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Anthropic’s Claude.

Valve Corporation makers of Steam are facing yet another lawsuit, this time around video game audio from the Performing Right Society (PRS) in the UK.

There’s a lot of age checking / age assurance bills going around right now, and System76 have entered the fight in Colorado to help open source.

The popular PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is set for some upgrades that will make it better on handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Legion Go.

Reikon Games are doing a follow-up to the popular RUINER from 2017, with RUINER 2 set to return to the brutal world but this time with optional co-op.

Completely overhauling the puzzle game, The House of Tesla: Definitive Edition arrives March 10th as a completely free update for existing owners.

Mega Crit have a massive success on their hands with the Early Access release of Slay the Spire 2, smashing records across the Steam store.

The upcoming Transport Fever 3 from Urban Games is due out later this year, and the developers just confirmed more platforms will be supported.

In a blog post Richell notes that the New York version as far worse since it “explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General” and so developers of operating systems and devices would have to have more than just your date of birth to put you into some age bracket like the California law seems to allow.