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Godot Engine powers up GLES2 with batching coming in Godot 3.2.2

By Liam Dawe,
4
With a big release behind them this year with Godot 3.2, and while Vulkan support is being worked on for Godot 4.0, the team is also hard at work to improve the current version further.
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NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out - further polishing Ray Tracing support

By Liam Dawe,
4
Today NVIDIA put out a brand new Vulkan Beta driver, as they continue to expand the capabilities of Vulkan Ray Tracing with a bunch of fixes.
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A look over all the goodies on sale (and free) for Linux gaming fans this weekend

By Liam Dawe,
5
It's another weekend, although you will be completely forgiven for having no idea what day it is. I don't remember half the time right now as it's all blurring into one during lockdown. Here's a look over what you can get cheap and free right now.
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now beaten the all-time player record of Dota 2

By Liam Dawe,
4
Four years ago, Valve's free to play MOBA Dota 2 hit 1,295,114 concurrent players and today it's finally been beaten by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
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Build a mighty empire and help a needy Fish God in 'Merchant of the Skies' out now

By Liam Dawe,
0
Merchant of the Skies from Coldwild Games has you sail through the skies and build up a huge trading empire, and it's out today with a whole lot of new features.
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Kingdom Two Crowns free update 'Dead Lands' arrives April 28 - Bloodstained crossover

By Liam Dawe,
0
Kingdom Two Crowns from Noio, Coatsink and publisher Raw Fury is set to expand with a free update on all platforms on April 28.
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KnotBot, a very sweet looking programming-puzzle game involving knots and strings

By Liam Dawe,
2
KnotBot might be one of the sweetest looking puzzle-programming type of games I've ever seen. A game where you give a little robot directions across a bunch of hand-crafted levels.
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GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
7
In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.
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Indivisible adds drop-in co-op for up to 4 players and a New Game Plus mode

By Liam Dawe,
1
Indivisible, the action RPG platformer from Lab Zero Games (Skullgirls) can now be played with others in local co-op making it quite a different experience. Plus a New Game Plus mode if you enjoy pain.
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Turns out The Butcher's Circus expansion for Darkest Dungeon will be FREE - plus more details

By Liam Dawe,
4
Earlier this month we reported on Darkest Dungeon getting a new online PvP DLC named The Butcher’s Circus, well it turns out it's going to be free and they've given more details.
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Linux distribution 'Pop!_OS' has a Beta release for the upcoming 20.04 with automatic window tiling

By Liam Dawe,
14
Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution based on Ubuntu from the folks at System76 is also getting in on the fun with a Beta release of the upcoming Pop!_OS 20.04.
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Game Boy Color inspired Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die to enter Early Access on May 29

By Liam Dawe,
0
Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die, a retro non-linear dungeon crawler that was funded on Kickstarter back in October 2017 is finally about to release.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II and Northgard free weekend, Overcooked! 2 has DLC free to keep

By Liam Dawe,
4
Looks like even more games are letting you play free across this weekend and there's plenty of fun to be had for everyone with Linux as their favourite system.
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Humble Store giving away 'Manual Samuel' for FREE over the next few days

By Liam Dawe,
2
Manual Samuel, a classic adventure game with a wild twist, is currently being given away FREE on the Humble Store.
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Merging elements from XCOM and HOMM 'Fort Triumph' is out now - some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
8
Fort Triumph from CookieByte Entertainment and All in! Games is out today, after a while in Early Access this turn-based strategy game combines XCOM with HOMM with some environmental interactions too.
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Epic space drone constructor 'Nimbatus' to leave Early Access on May 14 - new update out too

By Liam Dawe,
1
Nimbatus, a game about space exploration, science and creativity with a whole lot of spacecraft/drone creation is set to leave Early Access on May 14.
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Area 86 is a challenging and amusing physics-based escape room puzzler out now

By Liam Dawe,
5
Area 86 takes the idea of an escape room game, adds a bunch of physics interactions with an unwieldy little robot as the protagonist and gives you a pretty good time for your monies.
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Open-world vehicle building adventure 'TerraTech' free to play until April 21

By Liam Dawe,
0
British indie team Payload Studios have put their Linux game, TerraTech, up on a long Steam Free Weekend so you can download and play for free now until April 21.
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KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
19
Stick a fork in it! KDE's window manager KWin officially has a full fork with a new project called KWinFT, with an aim to support modern development practices and further expand Wayland support.
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Top-down content-filled 2D racer 'Ultimate Racing 2D' now has Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
2
Developer Applimazing has announced that their 2D racer, Ultimate Racing 2D, has added Linux support.
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