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The open source original Soldat is looking for a new maintainer

By Liam Dawe,
The absolute classic that is Soldat, which went fully open source back in 2020 is now in need of someone to take over as the original creator has announced.

fheroes2 for playing Heroes of Might & Magic II adds The Price of Loyalty campaign support

By Liam Dawe,
fheroes2 is a game engine reimplementation project we highlighted recently for playing Heroes of Might & Magic II on modern systems, and they have a big new release available.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is an 8-bit inspired action-adventure that looks magnificent

By Liam Dawe,
After a fresh pixel-art action-adventure? Look no further than Astalon: Tears of the Earth, which just released recently with Linux support from LABS Works and DANGEN Entertainment.

Collabora continue enhancing Wine for Wayland, now with Vulkan and multi-monitor support

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in the experimental stages, Collabora continue hacking away at the code for Wine to enable full Wayland support and they've reached some big new milestones with Vulkan and multiple monitor support.

Proton 6.10 GE is out as a recommended upgrade for users of this community-built version

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE, the community-built version of Proton has a fresh major upgrade with Proton-6.10-GE-1 out now. This is also a recommended upgrade by the developer.

Dying Light - Hellraid gets a big upgrade from Techland with a fresh story

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light - Hellraid, the much unloved expansion to the zombie-slasher that puts you into dungeons fighting skeletons has received a huge upgrade.

Open source Infinity Engine reimplementation GemRB 0.8.8 out now

By Liam Dawe,
While we have Beamdog taking care of the newer Enhanced Edition generation of classic RPGs like Baldur's Gate, we also have the free and open source GemRB reimplementation which has a big update out.

Legend of Keepers: Return of the Goddess announced with a free update

By Liam Dawe,
Goblinz Studio / TavroxGames have announced Legend of Keepers: Return of the Goddess, the first expansion for the popular dungeon defending management game Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager.

Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue gives you a taste of the excellent tactical game

By Liam Dawe,
Mainframe Defenders released back in February 2020 is a quality turn-based tactics game with a very retrofuturistic visual style like old terminals and now there's a free Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue to play.

Wizard school action-RPG 'StoryArcana' gets a re-reveal with a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
After some time since the original reveal back in 2020, developer Cyomo has formally re-revealed StoryArcana with a fresh new trailer and some design changes.

Hollow Knight gets Vulkan on Linux in the new update out now

By Liam Dawe,
After being in Beta since February, Team Cherry have released a free upgrade to Hollow Knight so it should continue running nicely for years to come.

Valve need more testing of the latest Proton Experimental for input latency improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we highlighted another upgrade of Proton Experimental, the special testing area of Steam Play Proton that pulls in new and advanced features - well it needs a lot more testing.

What have you been tapping play on recently? Let us know

By Liam Dawe,
It has again been a while since we ask you, our wonderful community about your gaming picks recently, so let's have another chat in the comments.

Mighty Goose is a furious over the top honking good time and it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mighty Goose is the brand new run and gun action game from Blastmode, MP2 Games and publisher PLAYISM. It's out now with same-day Linux support and it's fantastic.

DOOMBRINGER is a new first-person shooter from veterans of the Doom and Quake communities

By Liam Dawe,
Need a new retro styled FPS? Veterans of the Doom and Quake communities seem to have delivered with DOOMBRINGER.

itch.io is hosting a huge Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid

By Liam Dawe,
The new charity bundle on indie store itch.io is up for the Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid. It's absolutely massive and there's some great stuff included.

Git yourself some Wine with the new 6.10 development release

By Liam Dawe,
Another Friday, another two weeks and so a fresh development release is out of the compatibility layer Wine.

HyperRogue turns the non-Euclidean roguelike into a VR experience and it's wild

By Liam Dawe,
As if it wasn't confusing enough travelling through the non-Euclidean of HyperRogue, it's now also available to play through in different VR modes.

Cross-platform open source lighting control OpenRGB has a huge release out with plugins

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRGB is the excellent cross-platform open source application for controlling RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.

Prepare to smash blocks together as Petal Crash Online is out now in Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Petal Crash Online brings the fantastic style and gameplay from Petal Crash to everyone across the world to compete, with it currently being an exclusive Beta on itch.io.