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Manjaro Linux 20.2 'Nibia' is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Manjaro Linux, the middle-ground distribution for those who want regular updates but don't want to go to Arch directly has a brand new release out.

Real-time grand strategy fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx arrives on GOG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Songs of Syx, a title currently in development and available as Early Access has now officially arrived on the DRM-free store GOG if that's where you prefer your games.

Smissmas 2020 is live for Team Fortress 2 with new maps

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Along with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seeing it's 10th operation with Operation Broken Fang, Valve's other popular first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 is doing a new Smissmas 2020 event.

Dead Cells has sold over 3.5 million copies, Fatal Falls DLC announced for early 2021

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Evil Empire and Motion Twin have announced that Dead Cells is getting a brand new DLC in early 2021 and it seems they have a lot more coming to Dead Cells.

Unity acquires the open source MLAPI networking library

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Unity Technologies who work on the Unity game engine have announced that they have acquired the networking library MLAPI, along with the creator joining Unity.

Unreal Engine 4.26 rolls out with lots of Linux improvements, drops OpenGL for Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Epic Games have rolled out the latest major upgrade to Unreal Engine 4 while work continues on Unreal Engine 5.

Operation Broken Fang announced for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve have finally delivered on the next event for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with Operation Broken Fang.

System76 announce the AMD powered Pangolin with Ryzen and Radeon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
You asked, quite a lot actually and now System76 are going to be delivering with the all-AMD powered Pangolin.

Mesa 20.3.0 is out bringing tons of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mesa 20.3.0 is the latest and greatest when it comes to Linux open source graphics, bringing with it new hardware support, performance improvements and more.

Stadia exclusives Outcasters and Submerged: Hidden Depths out now and free for Stadia Pro

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Today, Stadia did a livestream on YouTube to show off gameplay of new titles and make some big announcements. Along with that two new Stadia exclusive titles are live. Plus, we round up all the other news.

Village builder Odd Realm is now available DRM-free on GOG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If the GOG store is your preferred place to grab some games, go and check out the latest release with Odd Realm.

Sky Haven is a new airport tycoon building sim available in Early Access

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A new promising building tycoon sim has entered the race why Sky Haven from developer Real Welders, so far it seems to be quite promising too.

art of rally to get a sizable update on December 14 with new vehicles

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As quite easily one of the best games this year, art of rally is a really fun top-down racer and it's going to be expanding quite a bit with the next update.

Intergalactic Wizard Force is a highly amusing short free adventure out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Intergalactic Wizard Force, developed for the AdventureX Game Jam is well worth a look as it's absolutely hilarious and won't take you long to complete.

Uno Platform 3.1 released, adding Linux support to their Universal Windows Platform Bridge

By Liam Squires-Hand,
For developers who are building all sorts of software, you now have another choice to get them running on Linux with the release of Uno Platform 3.1.

War Thunder now has a Battle Pass with both free and paid items

By Liam Squires-Hand,
War Thunder, the very popular free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military now has its own Battle Pass system so dedicated players can earn even more from it.

Surviving the Humans is an upcoming adventure about a misunderstood 80s Zombie

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Being a Zombie in the 80s isn't easy and that's what Surviving the Humans is all about, starring a rather misunderstood undead fellow.

The Solus Linux team release the Budgie 10.5.2 desktop environment upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Solus, the independent semi-rolling release distribution has released a big upgrade to their flagship Budgie desktop environment with the 10.5.2 update.

Wasteland 3 should be available on Linux with patch 1.3 before the end of 2020

By Liam Squires-Hand,
inXile Entertainment have confirmed in their latest update for Wasteland 3 that the Linux version should be ready before the end of 2020.

Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.3 released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The open source DXVK project which translates D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan for use with Linux and the Wine compatibility layer has a new release up.