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Steampunk first-person, base building survival game 'Volcanoids' gets co-op on May 20

By Liam Dawe,
3
Volcanoids is a fantastic idea for a survival game, that lets you build and customize a great big moving drill and this month on May 20 it's getting online co-op support.
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Bullet Express seems like an amusing upcoming 2D action-RPG loot shooter you can try now

By Liam Dawe,
0
LazyGemsGames are working on Bullet Express, a new 2D action-RPG shooter where you level up and merge guns together to create their ultimate form.
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Steamdolls - Order of Chaos will bring brutal steampunk metroidvania to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1
Steamdolls - Order of Chaos was announced recently from developer The Shady Gentlemen, giving a metroidvania a steampunk style with some brutal action.
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According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big

By Liam Dawe,
31
It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.
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Steam has a huge indie game sale for The Indie MEGABOOTH live now

By Liam Dawe,
2
The Indie MEGABOOTH, a team that have supported indie game developers for a long time through events are now running a huge sale on indie games on Steam and there's some awesome stuff.
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Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes

By Liam Dawe,
30
While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.
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Stadia finally gets wireless Stadia Controller support in the web browser

By Liam Dawe,
3
Google have again rolled out a feature they've been promising for some time, as today you can now use the Stadia Controller over wireless with a Chromium browser.
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Clever and quirky musical platformer 'Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói' gets an English version

By Liam Dawe,
3
Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói has been around for a few years now, and it ended up quite popular for a good reason. It's a platformer with a clever musical twist but until now it wasn't available in English.
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Manjaro Linux and Star Labs team up for their Linux-focused hardware

By Liam Dawe,
13
Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops.
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Free-moving fast-paced rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' adds a whole new awesome world

By Liam Dawe,
1
ScourgeBringer entered Early Access back in February and very rapidly became one of my favourite games of this year, and it has continued being awesome with the latest update.
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EVERSPACE 2 looks incredible in the latest footage, lots of player ship variation will be possible

By Liam Dawe,
6
As ROCKFISH Games continue developing the crowdfunded space combat sim EVERSPACE 2, they've gradually showed off more footage and revealed more info.
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Extreme downhill freeriding sports game Descenders has a big discount and two new tracks

By Liam Dawe,
2
Descenders is fast, smooth and most importantly for an extreme sports game - it's intense. It's also now on a big discount with some fresh content added too.
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Tasty Static, clone of the classic SkyRoads has a new release out

By Liam Dawe,
2
Remember SkyRoads? A classic 90's racing game with a bit of a twist, that acts a bit like a platformer. It has a free clone called Tasty Static, which recently had a big update. I've been a little obsessed over it too.
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Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta

By Liam Dawe,
24
Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.
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Vulkan 1.2.140 spec out and NVIDIA has a new Vulkan Beta Driver up with new extension support

By Liam Dawe,
8
Two bits of Vulkan related news to share today. Recently the Vulkan specification was bumped again with new extension and today a new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver went up.
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Set in the Killer Queen universe, ABS vs THE BLOOD QUEEN brings the side-scrolling arcade game home

By Liam Dawe,
0
Crowdfunding now on Kickstarter for release later this year is ABS vs THE BLOOD QUEEN, a return to the Killer Queen universe from BumbleBear Games.
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Jupiter Moons: Mecha gives deck-building roguelikes a metal makeover

By Liam Dawe,
1
Currently in development with a Prologue coming first, Jupiter Moons: Mecha pulls deck-building roguelikes into the far future with you being a Mech pilot.
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Seeds of Chaos, an adult (NSFW) dark fantasy tale with RPG & Strategy elements is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
20
Not a genre we cover often here but we always try to highlight a bit of everything. If you enjoy games very much aimed at adults, with plenty of NSFW elements (nudity, sex etc) then Seeds of Chaos might be for you.
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Rise up and fight in the crowd-based retro brawler Tonight We Riot - confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
0
Tonight We Riot, developed by a worker-owned cooperative Pixel Pushers Union 512, is a 'revolutionary' crowd-based retro brawler that looks like good messy fun and it's confirmed for Linux.
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Upcoming survival horror 'Skin Witch' looks set to land on Linux shortly after release

By Liam Dawe,
3
Releasing in late May, the survival horror title Skin Witch from Blackwood Specter looks like it will release for Linux.
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