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Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 5 days ago

Beyond All Reason is an incredibly impressive free and open source RTS, with The Lightbringer update out now that's a huge advancement for the visuals. If you love massive battles you need to play this one.

System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2025

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System76 continue building up their desktop environment COSMIC, with a 7th Alpha release now available for testing built on top of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha.

A public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2025

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The future of Linux distributions in many ways seems like immutable may be a good path, and now the Manjaro team want you to test out their own version of it with Manjaro Summit.

Feed the demons, don't fight them in the deckbuilder Hungry Horrors

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2025

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Do you love deck-builders? Hungry Horrors is quite an inventive take on the genre where instead of fighting them, you cook for them!

Playtron GameOS Alpha 3 brings the 'GameLAB' tool for game configuration and remote management

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

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Playtron, the company attempting to build a Linux gaming distribution to take on Valve, Microsoft and others have released GameOS Alpha 3 with a bunch of new features. This includes a new fancy open source tool named GameLAB.

System76's COSMIC Alpha 5 is here with a new media player, VRR improvements and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2025

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Hardware vendor System76 continue building up their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a fifth alpha now available for testing.

Deadlock from Valve drops fixed two-week update cycle to move onto larger updates

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2025

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While developers at Valve continue building up the invite-only Deadlock, their next-generation MOBA, they're changing up how they do updates for the game.

PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2024

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Playtron continue building up their PlaytronOS / GameOS (they don't seem to have settled properly on a name yet) alternative to SteamOS and Windows with a second Alpha release out now.

System76 release COSMIC Alpha 2

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2024

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System76 are continuing to expand and improve their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a second Alpha release now available for testing.

Cross-platform Nexus Mods app v0.6.0 out now expanding Cyberpunk 2077 support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2024

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The Nexus mod platform team continue building up their newer open source and cross-platform mod launcher, with expanded support for Cyberpunk 2077 modding in the new 0.6.0 version out now.

Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2024

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Playtron are quietly building up their Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes, and not only have they released their first Alpha but they've pulled in another investor too.

System76 desktop environment COSMIC alpha now available to try

By Liam Dawe, 8 Aug 2024

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System76 have today released the first alpha preview for you to try out COSMIC, their brand new home-grown desktop environment.

Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2024

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On top of fixing up various issues with Stardew Valley modding, the new Alpha of the cross-platform and open source Nexus Mods app introduces experimental Cyberpunk 2077 support.

Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2024

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I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.

KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2023

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Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.

Modrinth make their own launcher for Minecraft modders

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2023

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Modrinth, the open source modding platform that's gaining popularity, has now announced the first Alpha build of their own launcher to make modding easier for Minecraft fans.

Stone Kingdoms is an in-development open source remake of Stronghold

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2023

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Anyone remember the original Stronghold from FireFly Studios? Well, there's an open source remake named Stone Kingdoms.

The next release of 0 A.D. will have experimental Vulkan API support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2023

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0 A.D. is an in-development free and open source RTS, one that's very promising and looks pretty good and the next Alpha version will also feature experimental Vulkan support.

Beyond All Reason is looking incredible for fans of Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2023

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Beyond All Reason is an in-development free and open source RTS, based on the SpringRTS game engine and their latest update showcases just how great it looks.

Castle Game Engine building up towards a huge new release

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2022

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It's not only Godot Engine that's building towards a big new release. We also have the free and open source Castle Game Engine you might want to keep an eye on.

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