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Midweek tip - Lethal League is an amusing competitive projectile fighting game available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Oct 2019

Here's a game that we've never really talked about here but that ends today. The competitive projectile fighting game, Lethal League, is a huge amount of fun.

Psyonix have announced what is replacing Rocket League loot boxes and it sounds reasonable

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2019

One change I am particularly happy about is Rocket League removing all loot box gambling and Psyonix have now announced it's happening in December along with what will replace it.

The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2019

Another week has passed already? There's simply not enough time in the week! Since we slow right down during the weekend to get a little downtime ready to be fresh for another week, here's some interesting bits for Sunday reading.

Testing the Gioteck WX-4 Wireless gamepad on Linux, pretty good for the price

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2019

Always on the look out for new hardware that's good and cheap, I recently came across the Gioteck WX-4 Wireless gamepad.

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The new Steam Library Beta is officially out for you to try

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2019

The day has finally arrived, Valve have now put out a Beta for the massive overhaul to the Steam Library so you can try it yourself.

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Rocket League Season 12 and the Rocket Pass 4 are live, with the new Weekly Challenge system

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Another Competitive Season ends and a fresh one begins, Rocket League Season 12 is now officially live and so is the new Rocket Pass 4 with a tweaked Weekly Challenge system.

D9VK 0.20 'Frog Cookie' is out further advancing this great D3D9 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe, 26 Aug 2019

Developer Joshua Ashton has just today released another build of D9VK code-named 'Frog Cookie', further polishing this D3D9 to Vulkan layer that was forked from DXVK.

Rocket Pass 4 is coming to Rocket League on August 28th, with a new rally-inspired Battle-Car

By Liam Dawe, 22 Aug 2019

The fourth Rocket Pass is due to arrive in Rocket League soon, along with the start of Competitive Season 12.

Psyonix are removing randomized loot boxes from Rocket League

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2019

Rocket League, the awesome sports game about smacking balls into goals using rocket powered cars is going through some changes.

A three-way look at Rocket League on Linux, with D9VK versus Linux Native

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2019

After chatting on Twitter with a fellow Rocket League enthusiast about the performance of the game, I decided to take a look.

The Linux-powered Atari VCS sounds like it's coming along

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

The team behind the retro-inspired and Linux-powered gaming box, the Atari VCS, have put out an "Early Summer Update" of what's going on with the project.

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Psyonix have put up a roadmap of what's coming next for Rocket League

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

Yes, more Rocket League news! While they've only just put up a new DLC for the K.I.T.T car from Knight Rider and the limited-time Beach Ball game mode, they've also now shown off their roadmap for what's coming to the game next.

Rocket League enters the final phase of the Radical Summer event, new limited-time Beach Ball Mode is up

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jul 2019

Running from now until August 12, Rocket League's final phase of the Radical Summer event is focusing on '80s television. This includes a new DLC pack along with a new game mode.

The developer of Streets of Rogue recently commented about supporting Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2019

With Streets of Rogue having left Early Access recently, I'm sure plenty were wondering how it's done on Linux. Turns out the developer, Matt Dabrowski, actually made some interesting comments about it.