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Valve rolls out Steam Playtest to devs, new Steam Beta up with Linux improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve announced last night that they're beginning the proper roll-out of Steam Playtest, a system that allows developers to bring in testers without messing with beta keys. Additionally, a new Steam Client Beta is up.

Money for the Vultures is finished with the final DLC for Desperados III

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The fantastic tactics game from Mimimi Games is finished, with the final Money for the Vultures now available for Desperados III allowing you visit a location from previous games.

Unity Technologies committed to supporting the Linux Editor for the Unity game engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While Unity itself has long supported producing Linux builds of games and applications built with it, the actual Editor for Linux is still not fully supported - but that will change.

Face off against other ant colonies in the big Empires of the Undergrowth update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If you're afraid of everything creepy-crawly you might want to look away, as the ant colony management game Empires of the Undergrowth has a big update out.

Try out the awesome animated ASCII RPG with the new Stone Story demo

By Liam Squires-Hand,
What is possibly one of the most impressive animated ASCII games ever made, Stone Story RPG now has a demo so you can get a glimpse of how seriously cool it is.

FPS game engine GZDoom 4.5.0 is out as the first 64bit only release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GZDoom, the modder-friendly OpenGL and Vulkan source port based on the DOOM engine has a major new release up as they drop support for 32bit.

Explore space and do some shady deals in Avorion - Black Market out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Avorion - Black Market is the first full paid expansion to the excellent open-world space exploration and building sim and it looks great.

Steam has a huge City Builder sale going on right now until November 10

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Need to get your mind off the world for a bit and perhaps create your own ideal society? Well, Valve are here to help with that with a new Steam sale.

GOverlay app adds support for the Linux instant-replay tool ReplaySorcery

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOverlay is the super useful user interface for managing overlays like MangoHud and the vulkan post processing layer vkBasalt. Now though, it's been extended to be even more useful.

Episodic point and click adventure 'Related' is up on Kickstarter, first chapter free

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Related is a dark episodic point and click adventure that originally had a first episode release back in May 2020, with the team looking for funding to make more episodes.

The Craftworld Aeldari are heading to Warhammer 40,000: Gladius

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius is set for another race expansion, as the Craftworld Aeldari are coming in a fresh DLC a little later this month.

Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs in Mesa 20.3 will have some Bifrost support out of the box

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The continuing battle to have open source Linux graphics drivers support everything possible continues, with the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs hitting more milestones.

Extreme sports game Descenders adds new bike types, tracks, tricks and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
RageSquid and No More Robots recently gave the extreme sports game Descenders quite a big free content upgrade, which includes plenty of fancy new extras.

Linux 5.11 to see better support for ASUS gaming laptop keyboards

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Love ASUS hardware and their ASUS ROG tech? Well it seems Linux Kernel 5.11 will be pulling in some better support for their keyboards.

Open source OpenXR (VR/AR) runtime 'Monado', now passes conformance tests

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Quite a huge milestone for the in-development open source OpenXR runtime Monado, as Collabora have announced a fresh milestone in its life.

Collabora will be at the Linux App Summit talking about their work with Valve

By Liam Squires-Hand,
There's another interesting talk coming up this month that you might want to check out, with open source consulting firm Collabora chatting about their work with Valve.

RetroArch will soon get the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Feel the need to run some classic PlayStation 2 games? It's set to get a lot easier, as the RetroArch team have reported on their work with PCSX2.

VR rhythm game 'Groove Gunner' enters Early Access with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After a new VR game that's supported on Linux? There's not a lot to pick from but you can now add Groove Gunner to your collection.

A fresh NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.34.01 is out with GeForce RTX 3070 support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
NVIDIA have now updated their super special Vulkan Beta Driver branch adding in support for the latest GPU release with the GeForce RTX 3070.

Gabe Newell of Valve is launching Gnome Chompski into space (yes really)

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, today a press mail from Valve Software entered our inbox because Gabe Newell, president of Valve, is getting a garden gnome sent into space. No this is not Kerbal Space Program.