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

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
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.
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Fold Stories is an upcoming combat-free adventure in dreamlike origami world

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Fold Stories from OtterWays recently caught my attention, as a brand new adventure puzzle-platformer with a really quite wonderful style and setting.
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War Thunder gets a huge upgrade along with Vulkan by default on Linux (updated)

By Liam Squires-Hand,
53
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.
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Valve contractor working to add Direct3D 12 support to APITrace for VKD3D-Proton

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
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.
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The Humble Sweet Farm Fall Bundle is live with some great picks

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
A fresh game bundle is here with the Humble Sweet Farm Fall Bundle going live and it's actually quite good.
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NVIDIA slip out a small stable Linux driver update with 455.45.01

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
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.
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Probably the biggest 2D RTS around, Rusted Warfare has a major new release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
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.
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The advanced Caesar III game engine Augustus has a new release up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
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.
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Homestuck universe adventure HIVESWAP: Act 2 releases November 25

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
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.
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Typist.pk3 is a brilliant mod for Doom engine games turning them into typing adventures

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Do you love a challenge? How about typing games that need quick thinking and quick typing? Enter Typist.pk3.
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Multiplayer arena fighter 'Mighty Fight Federation' has Linux support on the roadmap

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
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.
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Help out with FOSS as the Budgie Desktop team need translations help

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
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.
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Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens goes Early Access in December and it's wild

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
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.
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A year later Stadia has messaging, user profiles and possibly new countries coming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
23
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.
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2014 point and click adventure A Golden Wake gets updated with fresh Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
Love your point and click adventures? A Golden Wake is one you might have missed from all the way back in 2014, and it's still being upgraded.
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Grab a free copy of BUTCHER during the GOG Made in Poland Sale

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
GOG are doing their annual celebration of Polish game developers with the launch of the Made in Poland Sale, along with a FREE copy of BUTCHER you can grab.
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Beyond All Reason aims to revive the RTS style of Total Annihilation

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
Total Annihilation is still to this day, one of the best RTS games ever made. I'll engage in fisticuffs with anyone who disagrees and Beyond All Reason is pursuing the ideal of Cavedog's classic.
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Pushamo is a challenging and award-winning arcade push-em-up out now on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Love block pushing puzzlers? Have fond memories of Tetris and want something a bit more complex? The arcade push-em-up Pushamo is out now and you can support charity with it.
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80s terminal PC styled turn-based tactics game Mainframe Defenders has a big upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
With a seriously great looking 80s terminal PC style that you need to see in action to appreciate, the hidden gem Mainframe Defenders has seen a big update recently.
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The classic Driver 2 has a new reverse engineered open source game engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
19
Any of our readers remember Driver 2? I remember spending absolutely hours driving around in this classic PlayStation game and now maybe you can relive it or experience it for the first time.
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