Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Boiling Steam reported last week that 13 newly released PC games have been rated Verified or Playable for Valve's Steam Deck handheld. These titles were identified between March 14 and March 21, 2026,...
Read more →PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, released version 2.7.208 today. This update focuses on improving graphics emulation accuracy, specifically within its Graphics Synthesizer (GS) and hardware (HW) com...
Read more →Collabora announced yesterday that PanVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs, has received a significant update to its framebuffer abstraction. This re-architecture removes historical Ope...
Read more →An Intel Linux kernel engineer recently posted a patch to enable Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) by default. This change is intended to improve performance on Linux, particularly for Intel C...
Read more →AMD GPUOpen today announced the availability of the AMD FSR Redstone SDK 2.2 update. This release introduces ML-powered FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1, designed to enhance visual fidel...
Read more →A new blog post from Khronos recently detailed how FFmpeg is utilizing Vulkan Compute Shaders to accelerate video encoding and decoding. This integration allows professional-grade video processing to ...
Read more →D7VK 1.6 was released today, March 23, 2026. This open-source project, which implements Direct3D 3 through 7 on top of the Vulkan API for Linux gamers, introduces significant internal changes. The 1.6...
Read more →Bottles, the compatibility layer manager, released version 63.0 today, March 23, 2026. This update introduces a new internal versioning system, a change described by developer Mirkobrombin as a "migra...
Read more →BenQ's Display Pilot 2 software, which enables control over monitor-level features, is now available for Linux. The software was released for Linux at the end of 2025, although its availability only r...
Read more →Google's agentic AI code review service, Sashiko, has expanded its monitoring to include submissions on the Rust-For-Linux mailing list. Unveiled by Google engineers a few days ago, Sashiko is powered...
Read more →Opera GX, the gaming-focused web browser, has officially launched on Linux today. This Chromium-based browser, a spin-off of the standard Opera browser, offers distinct features tailored for gamers. K...
Read more →The OpenShot video editor today released version 3.5, which its developers have designated as one of the "biggest releases ever" in the project's 18-year history. This update introduces a new default ...
Read more →A fix for a long-standing bug affecting AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models has been merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel overnight. This addresses a bug report from 2021 concerning GPU hangs on these aging g...
Read more →KDE developers have integrated 3D LUT (Look-Up Table) support into KWin, the window manager and Wayland compositor for the KDE Plasma desktop environment. This new functionality is slated for the upco...
Read more →Wine 11.5, the latest bi-weekly development release, was made available today. This version introduces support for the Syscall User Dispatch feature specifically on Linux. This addition is intended to...
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