A quick tour of some of GNOME Games 3.30's new features

Aug 6, 2018 15:24 GMT  ·  By

GNOME Games developer Adrien Plazas recently demoded the upcoming GNOME Games 3.30 release on his GPD Win Windows-Bbased game console.

GNOME Games is an open-source application developed as part of the popular GNOME desktop environment to let users easily browse and play their games. GNOME Games not only lets you browse your local game library, but also those you installed via Valve's Steam game distribution platform, as well as retro games.

The upcoming GNOME Games 3.30 release will ship with a bunch of new and exciting features, including an updated and refreshed user interface for faster loading time of your games collection, support for Virtual Boy games, as well as support for axes to map to buttons in the gamepad mapping wizard.

Moreover, GNOME Games 3.30 will add the ability to set the keyboard to gamepad mapping directly from the Controllers setting page, improve the Libretro backend with support for setting .options keyfiles listing options during initialization and support for predefined options for the DeSmuME and DeSmuME 2015 emulators.

Here's GNOME Games 3.30 running on the GDP Win handheld

However, one of the coolest features of the upcoming GNOME Games 3.30 release is that it will better support the GDP Win Windows-based game console, allowing users to play Nintendo DS, Virtual Boy, Games Gear, and Master System games, as developer Adrien Plazas recently showcased on Betamax.

GNOME Games 3.30 also promises to let you navigate your game library with a gamepad, provide smaller thumbnails for small windows like on the GDP Win handheld, and adds new Developers and Platforms views. Check out the video below to see the GNOME Games 3.30 Beta release running on the GDP Win game console.

The final GNOME Games 3.30 release will be out early next month on September 5, 2018, as part of the major GNOME 3.30 desktop environment. Early adopters and bleeding-edge users can download the GNOME Games 3.30 beta release if they want to take it for a test drive on their favorite GNU/Linux distributions or another device.