New WINE and Games News
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WINE
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine 10.3 released with clipboard support in the Wayland driver, initial Vulkan video decoder support
The Wine 10.3 development release is now available for testing, which includes some new features and the usual assorted bug fixes to make running Windows games and apps on Linux even better.
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Games
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GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD confirm Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D price and release date
For those of you wanting a new high-spec processor for all your gaming, perhaps the latest Ryzen X3D will be what you're after. Announced back in January, today we now have the confirmed launch dates and pricing.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Whisker Squadron: Survivor does a barrel roll with Star Fox and survivor-likes smashed together - out now
After a while in Early Access, Whisker Squadron: Survivor has launched that attempts to blend together the on-rails shooting from Star Fox with a few elements of the bullet heaven survivor-likes popularised by Vampire Survivors. Note: key provided for me.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Secret Agent Wizard Boy is Harry Potter meets Goat Simulator and it's chaos
From John, Evan and David Szymanski - names you might know from the likes of DUSK, My Friendly Neighborhood, Kyle is Famous, Butcher's Creek, Squirrel Stapler and more it's a thoroughly chaotic and ridiculous game about toppling an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school. I tried the demo back in October which worked great on Linux with Proton.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Good news for GOG fans - Kingdom Come: Deliverance II arrives March 28 plus a publisher sale
GOG have announced that the incredibly popular open-world game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is set for release on March 28th. So if you prefer to get your games from GOG, your patience will be rewarded.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 7th edition for Steam Deck / Linux
Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 7th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. It's a fresh month, so we've got some new games coming. ICYMI: Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Competitive FPS 'FragPunk' has launched on Steam and works on Linux / Steam Deck
The new kid on the block here is FragPunk, an online competitive FPS that feels like a noisy flashy version of Counter-Strike blended with Valorant and the good news is the anti-cheat is enabled for Linux / Steam Deck.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Bullet heaven survivor-like shoot 'em up Gunlocked 2 announced
FromLefcourt have announced Gunlocked 2, a bullet heaven survivor-like shoot 'em up that takes all the goodies from the first game and greatly expands on it. The first game is really good, and works well on Linux / Steam Deck with Proton, taking all the fun stuff from games resembling Vampire Survivors with the upgrade system but in a neat space shoot 'em up package.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton Experimental gets fixes for No Man's Sky, Deviator and re-enables NVAPI for multiple games
On top of releasing a fresh update to Proton Hotfix, there's also a new Proton Experimental update for Linux / Steam Deck available now.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton Hotfix updated to fix The Finals and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced (offline) on Steam Deck / Linux
Valve have released a new Proton Hotfix update which solves issues with both The Finals and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced (offline play) on Linux / Steam Deck.
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Wine 10.3 Brings Improved Wayland Clipboard Support
The Wine Project, a compatibility layer renowned for enabling Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 10.3 as the third maintenance update to the stable 10.x series.
This update introduces several notable enhancements, including clipboard support in the Wayland driver—a long-awaited feature for users of modern Linux desktop environments.
Additionally, initial Vulkan video decoder support has been implemented in WineD3D, a DirectX-to-OpenGL wrapper, paving the way for better video playback performance in applications relying on Direct3D.
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Wine release their first build of Mono with the new name Framework Mono v6.14 [Ed: Wasting time on toxic trash from Microsoft [1, 2]]
Back in August 2024, Microsoft donated (or offloaded if you wish) the Mono project to the Wine team, and now the first post-move release is out under the new name Framework Mono.
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Framework Mono 6.14 Released as the First Stable Update in Five Years
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Framework Mono 6.14.0 released
Version 6.14.0 of Framework Mono has been announced.
This is the first release of Framework Mono from its new home at WineHQ. It includes work from the past 5 years that was never included in a stable release because no stable branch had been created in that time. Highlights are native support for ARM64 on macOS and many improvements to windows forms for X11.See the release notes for a full list of new features and plans for future releases.