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Proton Experimental adds more game-specific fixes in the latest update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Continuing to roll in more fixes, Proton Experimental has another update that's small but it has some needed improvements.

Juice Galaxy (formerly Juice World) is the funniest game I've seen this month

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Juice Galaxy (formerly Juice World) is a thoroughly weird game. It's not finished yet but the developer clearly has a good and completely bizarre idea that I can't help laugh at.

Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM needs a last push for their open source 3D engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM is a Kickstarter campaign from game developer Eniko, founder of Kitsune Games (Kitsune Tails, Super Bernie World, MidBoss, and more) to create a special tutorial series about how to replicate 3D effects seen in classic retro 3D games from the 80s and 90s.

The free beat 'em up MannaRites recently added a big Adventure Mode

By Liam Squires-Hand,
One we've covered briefly before is MannaRites, a free game that gives you a classic beat 'em up experience that recently expanded with a whole new mode.

Renaissance painting adventure Death of the Reprobate announced as the final of the series

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Developer Joe Richardson has just announced Death of the Reprobate, the third and final game in their series of point and click adventures made with Renaissance paintings.

Couch co-op tower defense game D-Corp is officially out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Good fun to play with friends that becomes manic fast, the couch co-op tower defense game D-Corp has now left Early Access as a full game ready for you to jump in.

Ultimate Chicken Horse, one of the funniest party platformers gets fresh content

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Ultimate Chicken Horse from developer Clever Endeavour Games just had another free content pack upgrade so perhaps it's time to mess with your friends again.

New patent from Valve appears for "instant play" of games and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Published today is a new patent from Valve that (amongst other things) might allow for an "instant play" feature for games being downloaded from Steam.

NVIDIA 470.74 for Linux is out fixing up memory usage for Direct3D 12 with VKD3D-Proton

By Liam Squires-Hand,
NVIDIA today released the NVIDIA 470.74 driver for Linux from their "Production Branch" which includes some important bug fixes so you might want to upgrade now if you've been holding off.

DXVK 1.9.2 goes out with improvements to CPU overhead for D3D9

By Liam Squires-Hand,
DXVK, one of the major parts of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan has a new release out and there's plenty of nice fixes.

Call of Saregnar is a nod to 90s party-based RPGs and it's on the way to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you miss earlier party-based RPGs? Call of Saregnar is an in development title from Damjan Mozetič inspired by the likes of Betrayal at Krondor, TES: Daggerfall and Realms of Arkania.

Open source dungeon builder KeeperRL adds a Dwarves faction in the latest big release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
KeeperRL continues expanding as a mix of dungeon building, adventuring and RPG mechanics all blended together and now there's a playable Dwarves faction.

The Jackbox Party Pack 8 arrives on October 14

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It's back again with some new games to make you laugh at your friends through. The Jackbox Party Pack 8 is set to release on October 14 along with continued Linux support.

Free and open source flight sim FlightGear is working on VR support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While it's a little while off yet it seems the developers behind the free and open source flight sim FlightGear have been working on adding VR support.

Laser Chess game Deflection is out now providing a fun new strategy game

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Take down the enemy King with a great big laser, that's the aim of the game in Deflection. It's basically the original Laser Chess updated for modern platforms by Coreffect Interactive.

Minecraft has a proper snapshot up now for Caves & Cliffs: Part II

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The second part of the next major Minecraft update with Caves & Cliffs: Part II is now available as a proper snapshot available to test out the latest features.

Steam Next Fest gets a fresh trailer ahead of the event on October 1

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Steam Next Fest is fast approaching with it set to go live on October 1 so Valve has made a fresh trailer to give a little tease on what to expect from it.

Humble has a nice looking VR bundle if you need some more games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you have a VR kit that's begging to be played? Check out the Fall VR Emporium Bundle over on Humble Bundle.

Take down a resurrected Maggie Thatcher in this upcoming Doom II campaign

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Yes that's right, Maggie Thatcher has somehow escaped from Hell in Thatcher's Techbase, a new Doom II campaign that has been announced that will be free to grab on September 24.

Ray Tracing on Linux with AMD GPUs gets closer with multiple games working

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While Ray Tracing has worked on Linux for a long time with NVIDIA, the situation with Mesa+AMD is still being worked out but the good news is that it's all finally coming together.