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After a rough launch, Mists of Noyah seems to be turning things around

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Mists of Noyah is a new co-op survival game from developer Pyxeralia, it's definitely pretty looking with some wonderful lighting and art but they had a very rough launch. Plus, a Steam key competition!

You can now be a majestic Unicorn commander in Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is real-time strategy game about war on a massive interplanetary scale and you can pick different commander units to control like the new majestic Unicorn.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York set to release in Q3 2020

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York, a standalone visual novel following from Coteries of New York is now set to release in Q3 2020.

Mesa 20.2 gets Valve-backed ACO shader compiler on by default for AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

With the upcoming release of Mesa 20.2 which should hopefully be in late August, it seems AMD GPU owners will get a nice boost thanks to the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler.

Wine (so Proton eventually) takes another step towards Easy Anti-Cheat working

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Recently we highlighted the ongoing unofficial work to get Easy Anti-Cheat working in Wine (so Steam Play Proton then too) and it appears another major step has been achieved.

Civilization VI has a big June 2020 update with restored cross-play

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Civilization VI today from developer Firaxis Games, publisher 2k and game porter Aspyr Media has been updated with a huge June 2020 update.

The Steam Summer Sale 2020 is live with a Points Shop

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

From now until July 9, there's thousands of titles discounted across the whole of the Steam store so you can fill up that backlog with some goodies.

Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Recently, Valve released a new SteamVR Beta that was aimed at developers with initial support for the OpenXR specification and it appears they're going all-in.

Oryx Pro is the first System76 laptop with Coreboot, Open Controller Firmware and NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

System76 have today revealed a refreshed Oryx Pro laptop. The first to come from System76 that features both their System76 Open Firmware, System76 Embedded Controller Firmware and NVIDIA together.

Forgotten Fields is a new narrative adventure from the dev of Rainswept

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Forgotten Fields is a story of a writer suffering a mental block what Frostwood Interactive say is a cozy game about nostalgia, creativity, appreciating the present, and the passage of time - a meditation on impermanence and the shortness of life.

Skeletris mixes a Tetris-like equipment system with a roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Gosh, itch.io can really be a gold-mine of interesting games can't it. Today I took a look at Skeletris, which mixes a Tetris-based equipment system with a roguelike.

Overcooked! 2 – Sun's Out, Buns Out! is a big free update due July 5

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Overcooked! 2, quite possibly one of the best co-op games available on Linux for the madness it offers and proper laugh out loud fun. It's also about to get bigger, for free.

Colourful open-world adventure Pine overhauls various gameplay features

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Pine sure is pretty and as an open-world adventure, it did the job quite nicely at giving you plenty to explore with some tough combat and now it should be smoother.

Classic and open source RTS 'Warzone 2100' has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Now this is a true classic I thoroughly enjoy seeing have a new life with open source! Warzone 2100, originally a commercial titles continues to evolve with a new release out now.

Amusing Tower Defense game Cows VS Vikings is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

Cows, vikings and something about aliens is what you will find when you play Cows VS Vikings, a new Tower Defense game that's now available on Linux.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux, 25 Jun 2020

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Try the demo for deck-building auto-battler 'Hadean Tactics' for another week

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

After having a run during the recent Steam Game Festival, Hadean Tactics has a demo sticking around for another week.

We're giving away two copies of 3dSen PC

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

Want to try out the incredibly unique 3dSen PC emulator? Well, we have two Steam keys available thanks to a reader and perhaps one of them might have your name on it.

Mesa 20.2 driver update due hopefully by the end of August

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

The Mesa open source Linux driver team have put up their updated roadmap for the upcoming version 20.2 version.

NVIDIA released a big new mainline Linux Beta Driver 450.51

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

Not long after the recent developer-focused 440.66.17 Vulkan Beta, NVIDIA have released the 450.51 Linux Beta Driver in their mainline series that's for us consumers to jump in with.