Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Work is currently underway to adapt the Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU driver for inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel. The Raspberry Pi 5, which launched over two and a half years ago, has notably lacked a d...
Read more →PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, recently released version 2.7.453. This update primarily focuses on enhancements to the Fullscreen User Interface (UI). It includes "Quality of Life tweaks and achie...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported on July 11, 2026, that several new Steam titles released between July 4 and July 11 are now rated Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck. Notably, Palworld version 1.0, which of...
Read more →Linux 7.2 has now enabled UltraRISC RISC-V support in its default kernel builds for RISC-V architectures. This change ensures that UltraRISC-based systems will have out-of-the-box kernel support witho...
Read more →The Harmonic Firmware Initiative (HFI) was recently reported, with the goal of establishing a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V architecture boards. The initiative aims to ...
Read more →Steam saw the release of 108 new native Linux builds between June 24 and July 1, according to a report from Boiling Steam. During the same one-week period, 823 games were released for Windows on the p...
Read more →The PCSX2 project recently released version 2.7.463 of its PlayStation 2 emulator. This update integrates a new feature into its Qt-based setup wizard, providing users with an option to create a PCSX2...
Read more →A recent update to Mesa's Rusticl, implemented by an Arm engineer, now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics by default. This change means that the Rusticl OpenCL implementation ...
Read more →The Khronos Group recently announced that Bolt Graphics, a semiconductor startup focused on developing high-performance and efficient graphics processors, has joined as a Contributor Member. Based in ...
Read more →Wine 11.13 was released today, July 11, 2026, as the newest bi-weekly development update for the open-source software. This release focuses on improving the compatibility and user experience for Windo...
Read more →Between July 1 and July 8, 2026, Steam saw the release of 47 new games with native Linux builds. This represents approximately 12% of the 393 total games released for Windows on the platform during th...
Read more →Phoronix recently published a review benchmarking NVIDIA Linux gaming performance across X11 and Wayland display server sessions within KDE Plasma 6.7.2. The tests were conducted using the Arch Linux-...
Read more →AMD recently submitted another set of updates for its AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver to the DRM-Next development branch. These updates, sent yesterday, introduce new fe...
Read more →GOverlay recently released versions 1.8.5 and 1.8.6, delivering significant updates to its OptiScaler component and overall stability. Version 1.8.5 introduced a complete rewrite of OptiScaler's updat...
Read more →The Khronos Group this week announced the deprecation of host-side ray tracing acceleration structure build commands in Vulkan. This change streamlines the Vulkan Ray Tracing API, moving towards a sin...
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