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Jagged Alliance 2 game engine 'Stracciatella' has a big new release

By Liam Dawe,
The community working to keep the classic Jagged Alliance 2 alive with the Stracciatella game engine have put out their first release in a few years.

Award-winning strategy game The Battle of Polytopia is now on Linux PC

By Liam Dawe,
After winning awards and gaining popularity in the mobile space, Midjiwan AB have ported over The Battle of Polytopia to PC (Linux, macOS, Windows) and it's out now.

LunarG releases new Vulkan SDK with DirectX Shader Compiler for Linux and more

By Liam Dawe,
LunarG have today, August 4 2020, released a new and enhanced version of their Vulkan SDK (software development kit).

Littlewood is a seriously peaceful town-building RPG out now

By Liam Dawe,
After a successful Kickstarter campaign in the beginning of 2019 and an Early Access release later that same year, Littlewood has grown into a wonderful town-building RPG.

Free to play collectible card game 'Doomtrooper' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Reviving the collectible card game from the 90s, developer Secret Cow Level has now launched Doomtrooper CCG into Steam's Early Access program.

GOverlay makes Linux gaming overlay MangoHud even easier to use

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud has become the go-to way to get a decent readout of game performance with an overlay on Linux, and now with the latest improvements the GOverlay interface has made it much easier to use.

Ecosystem building sim 'Terra Nil' now gives you a whole continent to restore

By Liam Dawe,
A building sim that's as relaxing as it is challenging, Terra Nil has a truly wonderful idea and I absolute love following it along in development with a new big update out now.

The fab physics bridge-builder Poly Bridge 2 gets a huge free content update

By Liam Dawe,
Already finished Poly Bridge 2? Looks like it's time to jump back in as Dry Cactus have just released a huge free content upgrade with lots of new goodies to play with.

Unrailed! is gearing up for launch with a discount before the price goes up

By Liam Dawe,
Unrailed! is an absolutely fantastic co-op game from Indoor Astronaut and Daedalic Entertainment that has you frantically build a train track to keep your train going as far as possible.

xoreos, the FLOSS game engine for titles like Knights of the Old Republic has a new update

By Liam Dawe,
xoreos is an in-development effort to create a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the BioWare Aurora Engine that powers games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Vulkan API gains new extension to aid translation layers

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the Vulkan API 1.2.149 spec update went out and it includes another extension that's aimed at helping translation layers like DXVK.

With less than a month to go there's a new Crusader Kings III dev video

By Liam Dawe,
Going over more features we can expect to see in Crusader Kings III, Paradox Interactive have a new dev video up ahead of the release next month.

Aliens and enemy ships weren't enough for Space Haven so now there's space hazards too

By Liam Dawe,
Space Haven is an Early Access game that blends together elements of FTL, RimWorld and other such building and survival sims to create a promising mix of space exploration and people management.

Summer camp building gets a little supernatural in the upcoming Camp Canyonwood

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from the same team as We Need To Go Deeper, Deli Interactive LLC have announced Camp Canyonwood which looks like it puts a quirky spin on building up a summer camp.

Half-Life: Absolute Zero mimics Half-Life's original vibe, run on Linux with Xash3D FWGS

By BTRE,
The original Half-Life turned out to look and feel rather different than what originally shown before release. This fan project seeks to give players a different experience more inline with that original design.

X4: Foundations update 3.30 arrives with a crew transfer system overhaul

By Liam Dawe,
Egosoft are continuing to improve and expand their detailed space trading, exploration and combat sim X4: Foundations.

Arcane Fortune is a grand strategy empire building game you can play in your terminal

By Liam Dawe,
Newly released is Arcane Fortune, a free game inspired by Civilization and SimCity with their ultimate goal to have the same 'detail and realism as Dwarf Fortress'.

Aloof looks like a wonderful feature-filled upcoming puzzle-battler

By Liam Dawe,
Something of a recent discovery is Aloof, an in-development puzzle-battler somewhat inspired by the likes of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Puyo Puyo Tetris with its own unique take on it.

System76 are teasing their own brand Keyboard again

By Liam Dawe,
System76, the company that provides various Linux hardware along with their own Pop!_OS Linux distribution have started teasing their upcoming Keyboard again.

Looks like the recent upwards trend of the Linux market share has calmed down

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, the NetMarketShare website and the Steam Hardware Survey showed the Linux share was rising but it appears both have now calmed down.