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Godot Engine 3.2.4 gets a second Beta with lots of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Godot Engine continues seeing upgrades to the current 3.x series while the work is ongoing to bring Vulkan support the upcoming Godot 4.0. The second Beta of Godot Engine 3.2.4 is out now.

Real-time grand strategy game Realpolitiks II will be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Jujubee S.A. and 1C Entertainment recently released Realpolitiks II into Early Access, and they've confirmed their plans to support Linux with it.

KDE teams up with PinePhone for the PinePhone - KDE Community edition

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Your daily dose of not-linux-gaming news, with an announcement for fans of Linux gadgets and tech as KDE has teamed up with Pine64 to bring out a PinePhone - KDE Community edition.

If you enjoy first-person dungeon crawling, you need to play Vaporum: Lockdown

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

Vaporum: Lockdown is the standalone prequel to the original Vaporum from 2017 and Fatbot Games did another fantastic job with a great world to explore.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 and the RX 6800 XT are out today

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

Today, AMD are bringing out the big guns with the formal release of their next generation desktop GPUs with the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and the RX 6800 XT.

OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind sees great progress

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a true classic for many reasons, and it continues living on with the OpenMW free and open source game engine.

Destiny 2 will be properly free on Stadia soon, get Crayta FREE now and much more

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

After recently announcing new features for Stadia like messaging and profiles (and possibly new country support coming), Google seem to be firming it up elsewhere with it being even easier to try out without buying anything.

Fold Stories is an upcoming combat-free adventure in dreamlike origami world

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

Fold Stories from OtterWays recently caught my attention, as a brand new adventure puzzle-platformer with a really quite wonderful style and setting.

War Thunder gets a huge upgrade along with Vulkan by default on Linux (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

War Thunder, the huge free to play online battle game across land, sea and air just had a huge game engine upgrade with the latest release.

Valve contractor working to add Direct3D 12 support to APITrace for VKD3D-Proton

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

Valve contractor Joshua Ashton, who originally created the Direct3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK which was eventually merged with DXVK, is now working to help VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan.

The Humble Sweet Farm Fall Bundle is live with some great picks

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

A fresh game bundle is here with the Humble Sweet Farm Fall Bundle going live and it's actually quite good.

NVIDIA slip out a small stable Linux driver update with 455.45.01

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

It seems NVIDIA are no longer reserving the two extra digits in their Linux driver versioning for their special Betas, as a new stable driver is out today as 455.45.01.

Probably the biggest 2D RTS around, Rusted Warfare has a major new release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Rusted Warfare is sitting in quite a sweet spot for me. It's a grand-scale 2D RTS, that's like an indie low-res Supreme Commander and it's great. This latest update adds in a massive modular spider mech and it's awesome.

The advanced Caesar III game engine Augustus has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

To play the classic city-builder Caesar III on modern platforms there is the FOSS game engine Julius, however there's also a more advanced version called Augustus that had a major new release.

Homestuck universe adventure HIVESWAP: Act 2 releases November 25

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Ready for your next adventure? The second part of HIVESWAP with HIVESWAP: Act 2 has been announced that it's finally releasing on November 25.

Typist.pk3 is a brilliant mod for Doom engine games turning them into typing adventures

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Do you love a challenge? How about typing games that need quick thinking and quick typing? Enter Typist.pk3.

Multiplayer arena fighter 'Mighty Fight Federation' has Linux support on the roadmap

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Mighty Fight Federation is a multiplayer arena fighter with a focus on "fighting game fundamentals" that recently launched officially for Windows in Early Access but Linux is in their plans.

Help out with FOSS as the Budgie Desktop team need translations help

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Ever tried or heard of the Budgie Desktop? It's a modern and feature rich Linux desktop environment from the Solus Linux team and they need a little help.

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens goes Early Access in December and it's wild

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens is probably one of the biggest surprises that I tried out during a previous Steam Game Festival and it's going live soon.

A year later Stadia has messaging, user profiles and possibly new countries coming

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Stadia, the Linux-powered game streaming service from Google is just about to coming up on the one year mark since it originally went live for early backers. They're now releasing new features again and talking about the future.