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The fan remaster Sonic 3 - Angel Island Revisited has a big new stable release out

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2021

Ready for more epic Sonic fan games? Following on from the Doom-powered Sonic Robo Blast 2, we also have Sonic 3 A.I.R (Angel Island Revisited) a remaster of Sonic 3 & Knuckles which has a big new release.

Epic science fantasy roguelike Caves of Qud adds new game modes with checkpoints

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2021

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Not a big fan of permadeath? Good news for you as Caves of Qud, the awesome science fantasy roguelike epic, now has new game modes in Beta.

Time for a brewed awakening with the Wine 6.8 release out now

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2021

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Wine, that glorious bit of tasty open source software has a new 6.8 development release now available.

City builder Nebuchadnezzar is getting fire, crime and disease in the next free update

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2021

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Nepos Games have announced the next big update for their isometric Pharaoh-like city-bulder Nebuchadnezzar.

Don't Starve Together season finale out in Return of Them: Eye of The Storm plus big sale

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2021

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Return of Them: Eye of The Storm is the final update of the season for Don't Starve Together and so it's going off with quite a big bang along with a good discount too.

After many years, Switchcars is done and has left Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2021

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Switchcars is a very strange game. One where you run along, throw a hook into cars to speed up, pinch all sorts of vehicles and try to outrun strange alien creatures.

Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition launches May 19 with a number of enhancements

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2021

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Sunless Skies is simply awesome. A gothic-horror exploration RPG with flying-train combat. What more can you possibly ask for? How about a new upgraded version with Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition.

Portal Stories: Mel lands Vulkan support with DXVK in the latest stable update

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2021

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After a short Beta period that saw a few issues, the team behind Portal Stories: Mel have now release the latest stable build which includes Vulkan support for Linux.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux version 1.5.8 is out fixing a critical bug

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2021

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Have plenty of games on the Epic Games Store? The Heroic Games Launcher continues maturing to allow you to download and play them on Linux through a native application.

It's your time to Wine with the 6.7 release out now

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2021

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It's Friday and it's been two weeks so that can only mean one thing! We get to have a little Wine, as a treat.

Civilization VI has a final free update 'of the season' hinting at more

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2021

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The final free update to Civilization VI is now live although the team appears to be hinting that more may be on the way now the New Frontier Pass is finished.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer VKD3D-Proton 2.3 is out with early DirectX Raytracing support

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2021

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Even more progress towards having a layer that will translate Direct3D 12 nicely over to Vulkan, as the VKD3D-Proton project just had a fresh release out.

After a delay, the huge free Family Trials update for Children of Morta is out for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2021

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Dead Mage and 11bit studios have now upgraded the Linux version for Children of Morta to give it the huge free Family Trials update.

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2021

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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.

Spiritfarer hits 500K sales with The Lily Update out, Thunder Lotus' most successful game

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2021

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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.

Jackbox Games get their engine ported to Vulkan and SDL2, try it with Jackbox Party Pack 7

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2021

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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.

Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 brings Vulkan Ray Tracing in preview

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2021

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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.

Metro Exodus for Linux to run better on AMD GPUs soon with a Mesa fix now merged

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2021

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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.

Vulkan 1.2.176 spec update with VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2021

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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.

Seafarer+ now live for wilderness survival roguelike Wayward with a new temperature system

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2021

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Wayward is an Early Access survival roguelike about being out in the wilderness, and now it's getting a little bit tougher with the Seafarer+ update adding in a new temperature system.

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