Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Boiling Steam reported on October 17, 2026, that 16 new games achieved either Steam Deck Verified or Playable status. These titles were released between October 10 and October 17. Among the new additi...
Read more →Yesterday, Valve released a new Steam client beta that includes a significant change for Linux users. The updated beta client now defaults to using Proton for all non-Steam Windows binaries. This mean...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported last week that nine newly released games have been rated either "Verified" or "Playable" on the Steam Deck. These titles were released between September 19 and September 26, 202...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported on September 19, 2026, the addition of 14 newly released games that achieved Steam Deck Verified or Playable status. These titles were released between September 12 and Septembe...
Read more →Wine 11.18, the latest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms, was released today. This update continues the ongoing work to buil...
Read more →DXVK version 3.1.1 was released today, focusing on compatibility improvements and bug fixes for Direct3D 9 and DXGI applications. A key update includes the implementation of DXGI_SCALING_NONE and SetB...
Read more →Bottles 67.4 was released, primarily updating the Cpak package to include Soda 11.0-10. This update addresses specific compatibility issues for users running Windows applications via Bottles. Key fixe...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported last week that 10 new games released between August 29 and September 5, 2026, have been rated as Verified or Playable for the Steam Deck. Among the notable titles is Onimusha: W...
Read more →The Bottles project released version 67.2 today, bringing important security and compatibility enhancements to its Windows application management utility. A key fix addresses a vulnerability by stoppi...
Read more →Wine 11.17 was released today, September 5, 2026, as the latest bi-weekly feature development update. This software enables Windows games and applications to operate on Linux. The key enhancement in t...
Read more →Bottles 67.0 was released recently, introducing improvements to library management and addressing a notable bug. The update resolves an issue (tracked as #4755) that caused unchanged sync operations t...
Read more →Last week, Boiling Steam reported on 15 newly released games that received a Verified or Playable compatibility rating for the Steam Deck. These titles were released between August 22 and August 29, 2...
Read more →DXVK 3.1 was released today, bringing new feature support for Direct3D 8 through 11 implementations atop the Vulkan API. The update introduces basic support for DXGI incremental presentation, which re...
Read more →ReactOS, the open-source operating system focused on achieving Windows driver and application compatibility, merged initial support for Job Objects into its code-base yesterday, August 23, 2026. This ...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported on August 22, 2026, that 18 new games released between August 15 and August 22 have received either "Verified" or "Playable" compatibility ratings for the Steam Deck. These rati...
Read more →Wine 11.16 was released today as the latest bi-weekly development iteration. This version introduces VA-API hardware video decoding, allowing Windows applications and games running through Wine to lev...
Read more →Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 11.0-2, the latest stable update to their Wine 11.0 downstream that "powers Steam Play for running Windows games gracefully on Linux." This release expands ...
Read more →Bottles 66.3 was released recently, addressing a specific issue that affected the launch of external executables from within managed Wine prefixes. The update resolves a bug where applications would f...
Read more →Bottles, the application designed for running Windows software on Linux, recently released version 66.7. This update focuses on several bug fixes aimed at enhancing the application's stability and use...
Read more →D7VK 2.1, an open-source implementation for translating older Direct3D APIs (versions 7, 6, 5, and 3) to the Vulkan graphics API on Linux and Wine, was recently released. This update brings faster loa...
Read more →Bottles 66.0, a Wine prefix management application, was released today, August 12, 2026. This update introduces several new features including UMU, ProtoSoda, and Adaptive Launch, alongside an experim...
Read more →Boiling Steam recently identified eight newly released games, released between August 1 and August 8, 2026, that have achieved Steam Deck Verified or Playable ratings. This expansion brings more title...
Read more →Heroic Games Launcher recently issued version 2.22.1, a hotfix update that introduces several new features and improvements. Users can now install Proton-CachyOS directly through the launcher and navi...
Read more →Bottles, the environment manager for Windows software on Linux, released version 65.2 today. This update introduces support for Steam Runtime 4 (steamrt4) when using Proton 11 and newer. According to ...
Read more →Bottles 65.0 was recently released, introducing several enhancements for managing Windows applications on Linux. A key new feature improves the detection of Unreal Engine bootstrappers within the "Eag...
Read more →Boiling Steam reported on August 1, 2026, that 16 newly released titles received Verified or Playable ratings for the Steam Deck. These additions cover games released between July 25 and August 1, fur...
Read more →Celestial Return, a visual novel combining cyberpunk and cosmic horror themes, has received developer updates that significantly improve its performance and visual fidelity on Linux and Steam Deck. Fo...
Read more →Valve recently released Proton 10.0-4b, an update to its compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux. This latest version primarily introduces support for Steamworks SDK 1.65. According to ...
Read more →Valve has released Proton 11.0-1b today, July 29, 2026. This update introduces support for Steamworks SDK 1.65. This integration is crucial for maintaining and enhancing compatibility with Windows-nat...
Read more →Valve has released Proton 11, marking the first major update to their Steam Play compatibility layer since Proton 10.0-3 shipped in November 2025. This new version arrived in early July 2026, over hal...
Read more →Between July 18 and July 25, 2026, nine new Steam games were identified as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck. These titles met specific user rating criteria and were reported by Boiling Steam. Am...
Read more →The libx11-compat project is currently being developed to enhance the compatibility of traditional X11 clients across modern computing environments. This initiative aims to re-implement the Xlib clien...
Read more →The Boiling Steam publication reported on July 18, 2026, that 14 new PC titles released between July 11 and July 18, 2026, have been rated as either Verified or Playable on Valve's Steam Deck handheld...
Read more →DXVK 3.0.2 was released today, introducing enhanced debugging capabilities and several game-specific fixes. A key new feature is the "DXVK_DEBUG=hang" environment variable, which aids in pinpointing G...
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 →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 →Wine, that allows Windows games to run on Linux through Steam Play.">Proton 11.0-1 was released today as the newest stable major version of Valve's compatibility layer. This update powers Steam Play, enhancing the Windows gaming experience across Linux systems and the ...
Read more →D7VK 1.12 was released yesterday, providing the latest iteration of the translation layer designed for Direct3D 7 and older APIs running on top of the Vulkan API. This release enables compatibility an...
Read more →Wine 11.12 was released today, June 30, 2026, introducing notable updates for its Wayland driver. This release primarily features the addition of fractional scaling support for Wayland, which allows f...
Read more →Between June 13 and June 20, six newly released games received either a 'Verified' or 'Playable' rating for Valve's Steam Deck. This information was reported by Boiling Steam on June 20, three days ag...
Read more →Between June 6 and June 13, 2026, 14 newly released Steam games received "Verified" or "Playable" compatibility ratings for the Steam Deck. Boiling Steam reported on these additions, noting specific t...
Read more →Recently, code was merged into the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel to improve file-system case-folding communication. This update allows Linux file servers to accurately report whether local file syst...
Read more →Wine-Staging 11.11 has been released today, June 14, 2026. This experimental testing derivative includes 289 patches atop the upstream Wine 11.11 codebase. The upstream Wine 11.11 release, which occur...
Read more →Wine 11.10, the latest bi-weekly development release, was made available today for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and other platforms. This update introduces VKD3D 2.0, a sign...
Read more →Bottles 64.0 was released today, introducing NTSYNC support to enhance Windows application compatibility and performance on Linux. This new feature, contributed by Tid0lla, is crucial for improving sy...
Read more →Proton 11.0-1-beta5 was released yesterday, providing fixes for several game-specific issues and regressions introduced in the Proton 11 series. Valve's compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux ...
Read more →Boiling Steam published its "New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck" report for the week ending May 2, 2026, identifying 23 newly released titles rated as Verified or Playable. These games, releas...
Read more →Wine 11.8, a new bi-weekly development release, has been made available. This update focuses on enhancing compatibility for Windows applications and games running on Linux and other platforms. Key cha...
Read more →Wine 11.7 was released today as the latest bi-weekly development version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux. This update brings specific fixes for VBScript, enhancing the execution of applic...
Read more →The open-source D7VK project released version 1.7 today, April 12, 2026, bringing further improvements for running legacy Microsoft Direct3D APIs on top of Vulkan. D7VK, which started as a fork of DXV...
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