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RetroArch announce the Open Hardware project, plus a new fantasy console core

By Liam Dawe,
The team behind the RetroArch application have announced the Open Hardware project, their attempt to make things easy for you and they also recently added a new fantasy console core to play with.

With a few days left on the Kickstarter, Ova Magica has been an incredible success

By Liam Dawe,
Making games is hard, marketing games and cutting through the noise is just as hard but for Claudia Gorsky they've managed both amazingly well with Ova Magica.

Puzzle-battler Aloof is launching on March 25 and it looks fab, do try the demo

By Liam Dawe,
A puzzle-battler? Think like Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Puyo Puyo Tetris but with a new and fresh spin and that's what you're going to get with Aloof on March 25.

Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition returns on June 16

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for a bunch more demos, livestreams and more? The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition is set to return on June 16 and Valve are looking for developers to get involved.

Take-Two Interactive hit the DMCA nuke on GTA III and Vice City reverse engineered effort

By Liam Dawe,
It was only recently that we picked up the news of both GTA III and Vice City getting a fully working reverse engineered game engine, along with plenty of upgrades. Sadly, and expectedly, it got nuked from orbit.

Linux Mint want to remind you to run updates

By Liam Dawe,
In a fresh blog post, Linux Mint's leader Clem Lefebvre has written about some statistics on people running out of date software and warned people to ensure they're running updates.

Linux lands on Mars with Perseverance and Ingenuity

By Liam Dawe,
Here is your morning dose of miscellaneous Linux news. Not gaming but still very cool - Linux has officially landed on Mars with the Perseverance Rover.

Open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 24 is out now with plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe,
After a few years of waiting, Wildfire Games have released a big upgrade for the free and open source real-time strategy game 0 A.D. with Alpha 24 now available.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation lib VKD3D-Proton 2.2 is out, prepares DirectX Raytracing

By Liam Dawe,
We just recently had the DXVK 1.8 release for Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan and now we also have the VKD3D-Proton 2.2 release landing as well.

Collabora share big progress on the Wine compatibility layer with Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora have shared a great progress update on getting Wine working directly with Wayland, which is going to eventually replace X11 on most Linux distributions.

There's no stopping the Viking invasion as Valheim hits 3 million sales

By Liam Dawe,
Valheim has truly become an absolute runaway hit. A survival game about Vikings running around in co-op chopping down trees and facing off against big bosses.

Crusader Kings II gets a monthly subscription for all the DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive are branching out with revenue models and they're now doing a subscription for Crusader Kings II, which itself is free to play.

It's officially game over for Rochard with studio Recoil Games shutting

By Liam Dawe,
Recoil Games appear to have filed for bankruptcy a while ago and sadly a casualty of that is their game Rochard, which has now been removed for sale.

Portal 2 from Valve gets a big update with Vulkan support from DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
Portal 2, the classic first-person puzzle game from Valve available on Steam, just had a huge upgrade come out of nowhere along with Vulkan API support powered by the DXVK project.

D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.8 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Usually used for Wine and Steam Play Proton, the translation DXVK layer that moves Direct3D 9, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 to Vulkan has a new release available with DXVK 1.8.

Mutropolis is a sci-fi adventure where you revisit Earth in the year 5000

By Liam Dawe,
Set in the year 5000 when we're all living on Mars after some kind of great disaster on Earth, it's time to go back and discover what's still left.

Learning Factory is like Factorio with lots of cats and plenty of automation

By Liam Dawe,
Combining the ideas found in Machine Learning with automation and Factorio styled conveyor belts everywhere, Learning Factory from Luden.io has entered Early Access.

Open-world, turn-based RPG 'Relic Space' gets a trailer and release window

By Liam Dawe,
Love turn-based tactical battles in space? Well the upcoming Relic Space is showing a huge amount of promise and it will be entering Early Access later this year.

Dungeon crawler Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for another game that makes you stay up all night for one more run? Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos is now out in Early Access on the Steam store.

Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin free upgrade out now with a Boss Rush Mode

By Liam Dawe,
Blasphemous has another free expansion out now with Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin, pulling in Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night along with more free content.