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Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales

By Liam Dawe,
A little bit of good news - Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is a clear hit, with it recently hitting a big sales milestone.

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan for the Vibrant Visuals update

By Liam Dawe,
Work continues for the Vibrant Visuals update to come to Minecraft Java, and as part of that they're switching the rendering from OpenGL to Vulkan.
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Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence"

By Liam Dawe,
The generative AI expansion continues, with the Unity game engine being turned into a slop-making machine with an upcoming update.

Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content

By Liam Dawe,
Hypixel Studios continue building up Hytale during Early Access with Patch 3 out now that adds in a ridiculous amount of additions to the game.

Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too

By Liam Dawe,
Component shortages are increasing thanks to the AI boom, and if you were thinking you could fall back on traditional HDDs - you would be wrong.

Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer.

Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions

By Liam Dawe,
The Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with "AI slop", including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.

NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA released their latest recommended driver for Linux with version 580.126.18 out now.

Earth vs Mars the Advance Wars-like from Relic Entertainment gets Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Relic Entertainment produced their own Advance Wars-like strategy game with Earth vs Mars from a smaller team, and now it is updated to be Steam Deck Verified.

SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls

By Liam Dawe,
Go through exorcisms to collect souls and repeatedly click through a vast network of additional upgrades and abilities in SCOPECREEP.

Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone

By Liam Dawe,
Games For Everyone has returned for Episode 2, going over our thoughts on various Linux gaming related subjects.

Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time

By Liam Dawe,
I sure do love 4x strategy games, but they really can take forever - which is where Astro Protocol is different with its tactical approach.

Brotato gets a major update with Paws & Claws adding pets

By Liam Dawe,
With Evil Empire now in control of updates to Brotato as the original dev has moved on, a major Paws & Claws free upgrade has rolled out adding in pets.

KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team have released KDE Plasma 6.6, the latest new feature update to the popular Linux desktop environment with lots of goodies.

Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more

By Liam Dawe,
Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux, with version 0.5.20 out now.

Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Rocket League is set to get Easy Anti-Cheat in April, as the Epic Games owned studio Psyonix just recently announced.

Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"

By Liam Dawe,
We reported recently how the Steam Deck was completely out of stock in the USA, Canada and Asia and now Valve have put up a short statement on it.

Space strategy game Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes has a demo out now

By Liam Dawe,
Battlestar Galactica is one of the best space sci-fi series around, and now you have a chance to explore more in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes.

ABIDE is an extreme stop-motion horror game from the devs of Judero and Mashina

By Liam Dawe,
Set in a secluded community retreat that uses various therapeutic techniques to try and rehabilitate its residents, ABIDE certainly looks to be different.

Comedy co-op physics platformer Log Riders adds Linux support and looks hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
Log Riders is a co-op platformer around running on top of wooden logs, it looks hilarious and now there's full Native Linux support too.