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Beamdog unleash the huge 2.6 update for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Icewind Dale

By Liam Dawe,
13
The Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Siege of Dragonspear and Icewind Dale just got a bit more enhanced with the huge 2.6 upgrade for all games out now.
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Linux Kernel dev bans University of Minnesota for sending malicious patches

By Liam Dawe,
39
Here is your daily dose of WTF. Linux Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has called out "researchers" from the University of Minnesota and banned them from submitting code to the Linux Kernel.
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Colourful and fun 2D action-adventure Unsung Warriors heads back to Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
4
After a failed first attempt, Unsung Warriors is back on Kickstarter with an updated demo Prologue available to play.
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Spiritfarer hits 500K sales with The Lily Update out, Thunder Lotus' most successful game

By Liam Dawe,
11
Thunder Lotus have announced that their wonderful game Spiritfarer has hit 500K sales, making it their most successful title to date and The Lily Update has been released.
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Jackbox Games get their engine ported to Vulkan and SDL2, try it with Jackbox Party Pack 7

By Liam Dawe,
5
Jackbox Games emailed in to notify us of something big: they've worked with game porter and FNA developer Ethan Lee to port their engine to Vulkan and SDL2 and you can try it in a Beta for The Jackbox Party Pack 7.
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Apogee returns as Apogee Entertainment to publish indies with Residual as their first

By Liam Dawe,
11
Residual, an upcoming game from Orangepixel is confirmed to be finished, and they've lined up a publisher - the reborn Apogee Software which is now Apogee Entertainment.
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Discord has reportedly ended talks with Microsoft to remain independent

By Liam Dawe,
15
How about some good news to start your Wednesday off? It seems Discord are no longer in talks with Microsoft and instead may go with an IPO (initial public offering).
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Make sure your NVIDIA drivers are up to date, new security issues detailed

By Liam Dawe,
13
NVIDIA has today revealed a bunch of new vulnerabilities in the GPU drivers that affect both Linux and Windows.
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Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 brings Vulkan Ray Tracing in preview

By Liam Dawe,
4
While work is ongoing in Mesa to get AMD GPUs to support Ray Tracing, AMD directly have released Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 that brings along support to Linux.
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Metro Exodus for Linux to run better on AMD GPUs soon with a Mesa fix now merged

By Liam Dawe,
48
The new Linux port of Metro Exodus sadly came with a rough launch but for AMD GPU owners it's set to get more playable, with a fix in the Mesa RADV driver now merged.
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Death Carnival to have full cross-platform online play, developer very positive on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1
Death Carnival, originally called BulletRage, is an upcoming fast-paced top-down shooter with extreme weapons & online multiplayer mayhem.
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Spaceship building 2D strategy Istrolid reaches the big 1.0

By Liam Dawe,
4
It's Free Game Tuesday! Today we have Istrolid, a free fleet-design strategy game from developer treeform that recently hit the big 1.0 release.
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Snowtopia: Ski Resort Tycoon lands on Linux in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
3
Goblinz Publishing and developer TeaForTwo have put their Snowtopia: Ski Resort Tycoon onto Linux with the latest Early Access update available now.
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Vulkan 1.2.176 spec update with VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta

By Liam Dawe,
0
The Khronos Group continues tweaking and expanding Vulkan with the 1.2.176 specification update out, which includes a new extension and NVIDIA have already hooked up support.
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DOTA: Dragon's Blood was so popular a second season is confirmed

By Liam Dawe,
3
As a quick update for fans of Valve's MOBA, Dota 2, it has been confirmed that the Anime series they teamed up with Netflix for DOTA: Dragon's Blood is getting a second season.
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Valheim gets a needed patch, new terrain-modification system and no more draugr in stones

By Liam Dawe,
25
It's been a little while since Valheim got a patch and it seems the developers have been busy, with the latest patch out now with one massive improvement.
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Voxelgram is a sweet 3D version of Picross and it's now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
4
Putting Picross / Nonogram into 3D, Voxelgram is a pretty great puzzle game that sees you use your logical brain to work out what shapes are hidden inside blocks.
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Check out the latest trailer for Stardeus, a space base building colony management sim

By Liam Dawe,
1
Sprinkle in a little RimWorld, Space Haven, Starmancer and more together and you get what looks like Stardeus.
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Check out the first teaser for the weird adventure The Season of the Warlock

By Liam Dawe,
2
The Season of the Warlock, a brand new point and click adventure from developer enComplot has been announced with a teaser and it looks really good.
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Stealth puzzle-platformer Moonshot - The Great Espionage looks like it could be amusing

By Liam Dawe,
1
Moonshot - The Great Espionage from developer NimbleBeasts is looking good, and it's coming to Steam in June along with full Linux support built with Godot Engine.
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