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Estranged: Act II to leave Early Access on May 22

By Liam Dawe,
Estranged: Act II is an impressive and currently free first-person adventure game with certain horror and puzzle themes that has been a labour of love from developer Alan Edwardes and it's done.

Spiritfarer, the cozy management game about dying is coming to GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Spiritfarer might have a seemingly depressing theme but it appears to handle it in such a beautiful way. It also looks gorgeous and it's one of my most anticipated games.

Chapter 8 of Higurashi When They Cry Hou out now, first chapter free

By Liam Dawe,
Higurashi When They Cry Hou, a very popular series of anime styled novels has the first chapter set temporarily free to claim and the final chapter is out now with Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi.

Veloren, an open source RPG inspired by Cube World has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Need a new place to meet up with friends? Veloren is a free and open source open-world RPG that just recently had a massive new release with a focus on firming up the content.

Ancient board game Hnefatafl arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Hnefatafl, the ancient 'board game of the vikings' just recently had a version ported to Linux from developer Philippe Schober and it sounds like quite a complete package.

Wasteland 3 characters can have super powerful quirks

By Liam Dawe,
The first developer diary for Wasteland 3, which comes to Linux on August 28, shows off some of the customization and combat that's possible and it sounds ridiculous.

Beautiful puzzle game Lumote plans to support Linux through Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Released back in February, Lumote is an incredibly vibrant and quite beautiful looking puzzle game and it seems Luminawesome Games plan to support Linux with Steam Play Proton.

Come tell us about what you've been gaming on Linux lately

By Liam Dawe,
Another week down, plenty of new games have released or been updated and we're about to begin another cycle. Let's have a chat.

Terraria is finally done 9 years later with Journey's End

By Liam Dawe,
Terraria, the side-scrolling sandbox exploration and crafting game from Re-Logic is finally done, with the Journey's End update that's out now.

Experiment with light beams in the fantastic LIT: Bend the Light

By Liam Dawe,
LIT: Bend the Light is a puzzle game about bouncing and bending around beams of light, and eventually finding a solution to each puzzle.

Direct3D to Vulkan gets even better with DXVK 1.7

By Liam Dawe,
Today the latest and greatest in Direct3D to Vulkan translation for the Wine (and Proton) compatibility layers has released with DXVK 1.7.

Solve circuit board maze puzzles in the demo of R.E.E.L.

By Liam Dawe,
Love electronics? Love puzzle games? You may want to keep an eye on R.E.E.L., as not only does it combine the two and looks incredibly stylish - it also has a demo up now.

KDE Plasma 5.19 has a first Beta in need of testing

By Liam Dawe,
Want to ensure the next stable release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is as good as can be? Plasma 5.19 Beta is out.

Into the Breach gets a few tweaks for the new Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
After waiting quite a while, Subset Games finally gave us the Linux port of Into the Breach and it's been working well for us but they just put out a fresh update to fix some issues.

Caesar III open source game engine 'Julius' has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Julius, a constantly improving free and open source game engine to play the classic Caesar III on modern systems has a brand new release available.

Microsoft president admits they were wrong on open source

By Liam Dawe,
During a recent online event the current Microsoft President, Brad Smith, opened up a little bit about open source and their previous failures with it.

Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.

A quick look over recent and upcoming Linux game releases

By Liam Dawe,
With so many games being released, announced and teased it's often hard to keep on top of things so we're here to help.

Deformed Doom lets you warp and distort classic Doom maps

By Liam Dawe,
Ever wanted to play through any of the classic Doom games in something like GZDoom but have everything slightly different? Deformed Doom will let you warp levels in interesting ways.

2D dig 'em up puzzler 'Something Ate My Alien' releasing June 18

By Liam Dawe,
Platforming, puzzles and plenty of digging is what's in store for you in Something Ate My Alien, and plenty of weird creatures too.