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Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is out with better NVIDIA Optimus support, fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

Linux Mint 20 has today been officially released across multiple official desktop environments and it's all sounding great. The Cinnamon desktop edition sounding especially good.

What have you been playing recently and what's your pick this weekend?

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

It's coming to the end of another week on planet Earth. More games have released, tons have seen updates and it's time for another chit-chat.

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PSP emulator PPSSPP has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

Remember the PSP? The classic Sony handheld lives on thanks to open source with the PPSSPP emulator.

Colony building sim 'Maia' has a huge free update with more world simulation

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

With a very tough looking release behind them, developer Simon Roth release a huge free update for their colony building sim Maia.

Become a Scottish agent in the Goldeneye inspired Pinkeye

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

Currently in development, Pinkeye is another upcoming first-person shooter with a heavy-retro theme and if you enjoyed the classic Goldeneye or The World is Not Enough you might like this.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a new Beta to deal with cheating

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

While Team Fortress 2 is dealing with racist bots, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is dealing with cheating and there's a new Beta out now.

Valve continues battling with the Team Fortress 2 bots

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

After recently dealing with an influx of game-ruining racists bots in Team Fortress 2, the battle continues.

Supraland stops supporting Linux shortly after leaving GOG entirely

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2020

Supraland, a highly rated open-world puzzle adventure, has now removed mentions of Linux on Steam as the developer is unable to actually support it.

Dying Light - Hellraid launches July 23, pre-purchase and Beta up now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

While Techland have put Hellraid on hold for now, they have given it a new life with Dying Light - Hellraid which is releasing on July 23 and you can get Beta access.

Be super evil in the Dungeons 3 Complete Collection out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Realmforge Studios and Kalypso Media are finally finished updating and expanding Dungeons 3 and so it now has a proper Complete Collection available.

Godot Engine 3.2.2 is out with 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Godot Engine 3.2.2 is an update to the current latest stable branch of the open source game engine, which does pull in some big new features.

Cyberspace FPS 'Black Ice' has a huge update with first story act complete

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2020

Run, shoot and loot in cyberspace - that's what Black Ice is all about, with masses of different weapons and abilities and it just had a huge upgrade.

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.