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The Steam Open World Sale is now live so go run free with your monies

By Liam Dawe,
Over on the Steam store Valve are running an Open World Sale full of games that let you run around and go exploring. Although, as usual, there's plenty included in the sale that you wouldn't expect.

Get Company of Heroes 2 and Ardennes Assault free to keep on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your quick Thursday tip: right now on Steam you can claim both Company of Heroes 2 and Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault free and keep it forever.

Creative Assembly in pre-production for the next Total War: THREE KINGDOMS

By Liam Dawe,
It seems like the current Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is now officially done, with Creative Assembly today putting out a video to explain what they're doing.

Northgard expands again with the new Squirrel clan, get ready to cook

By Liam Dawe,
Dipped in Norse mythology, the real-time strategy game Northgard has expanded once again as Ratatoskr, Clan of the Squirrel has now joined the lands.

Utopixel blog about porting their title Outer Wonders to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
While off-the-shelf game engines like Unity, Godot and Unreal often make it easy to bring games to Linux - what about developers who roll their own? Utopixel have blogged about bringing their new game Outer Wonders to Linux.

Outbreak: Endless Nightmares arrives on Linux in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
Outbreak: Endless Nightmares from solo developer Dead Drop Studios has arrived on Linux as of the latest update.

UK-based Entroware launch the Poseidon desktop with 11th Generation Intel CPUs

By Liam Dawe,
After a new shiny pre-built desktop PC built for Linux support? UK-based Entroware are back again after the recent Proteus laptop reveal with their new Poseidon desktop.

Super chilled-out life sim The Garden Path looks absolutely gorgeous

By Liam Dawe,
After a long time waiting after being hyped when covering it here back in 2019 after chatting to the developer, The Garden Path from developer carrotcake gets a proper announcement and trailer.

Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 30

By Liam Dawe,
Guess what? We're back again! The dynamic duo returns for another casual and frank chat about Linux and Linux Gaming topics across many different areas in the industry.

Detective adventure Backbone looks incredible and launches on June 8

By Liam Dawe,
After a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2018, the Backbone: Prologue release in 2019, we're about to see Backbone officially launch on June 8.

Space Betrayers mixes together a card game, crisis management and social deduction

By Liam Dawe,
Promising a social deduction game like nothing you've ever played before, Space Betrayers has managed to grab my attention because it genuinely sounds quite good.

GamingOnLinux moves on from Freenode to Libera.Chat for IRC

By Liam Dawe,
IRC, that lovely simple chat network that's been around since forever is still going despite other much more popular solutions appearing (hi Discord) and recently the huge Freenode network had a hostile takeover.

Unreal Engine 5 goes out in Early Access with continued Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Epic Games has today released Unreal Engine 5 into Early Access with some huge new features, a new look for the editor and continued support for Linux builds of games.

Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit teams up with publisher Headup for a 2022 release

By Liam Dawe,
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit is an upcoming 3D point and click adventure from developer Tag of Joy, who have now announced a team up with publisher Headup for a 2022 release.

Classic freeware shooter 'AssaultCube' is making a comeback

By Liam Dawe,
AssaultCube, a name I bet plenty of Linux users know but haven't heard anything of in a long time. It hasn't seen a release since *checks notes* 2013. However, it's going to make a return.

Last Epoch the awesome action-RPG update 0.8.2 is out with huge end-game changes

By Liam Dawe,
Eleventh Hour Games have published the latest huge upgrade for Last Epoch, their time-travelling action-RPG.

Stadia Pro games for June include Blue Fire, MotoGP20 and more - ARK arrives this 'Summer'

By Liam Dawe,
We now know what you can expect from Stadia Pro, the optional Google Stadia subscription, if you stay subscribed in June with the next set of claimable games announced. Time for another Stadia round-up.

Slimbook think they have the 'One' for you with their new compact mini-PC

By Liam Dawe,
Need a new PC? Slimbook have a pretty fancy and sleek looking compact mini-PC called the Slimbook One powered by an AMD RYZEN 7 4800H and AMD Radeon Graphics Vega 7.

StarCrawlers Chimera is a new upcoming first-person cyberpunk dungeon crawler

By Liam Dawe,
StarCrawlers Chimera has been announced by Juggernaut Games as their newest modern first-person dungeon crawler.

Google detail 'Half-Double', a new Rowhammer vulnerability for DRAM

By Liam Dawe,
Is nothing sacred any more? Gosh, there's vulnerabilities everywhere. Just when you thought you were safe after updating to protect your CPU, now there's this. Thought RAM vendors had fixed Rowhammer from 2014? Think again, it's back with Half-Double.