Epic Games is hiring a Senior Game Security Engineer for their Anti-Cheat team to champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities while working on OS internals, reverse engineering, and protecting multiplayer

A new class-action lawsuit filed by two "gamers" accuses Valve and Microsoft of colluding in an anticompetitive cartel to inflate PC game prices and stifle market competition.

Felix86 26.06 update brings 3–10× gaming performance boosts and key emulation fixes for RISC-V's new SpacemiT K3 hardware

Wine-Staging 11.10 fixes a long-standing dark rendering bug in games like Frostpunk and Against The Storm when using Vulkan.

Google's ANGLE has merged official Wayland support, finally unblocking proper native Wayland support for the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)

Steam Machine has appeared in the official Khronos Vulkan conformant products database

Linux Mint's May 2026 update highlights major Nemo speed and search improvements, a new Cinnamon screenshot tool, better dialogs and themes, and a security warning about fake project websites

HP has become the third premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and fwupd, joining Dell and Lenovo in contributing $100k+ annually to support firmware updates on Linux.

Waterfox 6.6.13 enables its built-in ad blocker by default, swaps Startpage for 1.org as the temporary default search engine, and includes tracking protection fixes and web compatibility improvements

Discord released a video about Linux on YouTube

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer to optimize Vulkan driver performance, focusing on improving efficiency, power consumption, and latency.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

GOG released "GOG YEAR 2025" personalized recap of your 2025 gaming stats like playtime, games bought/played, achievements, top favorites and more. Similar to Steam Replay or Spotify Wrapped

Proton Experimental latest update improves playability for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER, Rec Room, Warframe, Darksiders, GODBREAKERS, Indivisible and King of Bones

Lenovo is reportedly planning to release a SteamOS variant of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026

Lenovo is reportedly planning to release a SteamOS variant of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode

Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey

‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026

Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up]