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FOSS Ultima 7 game engine 'Exult' has a new big stable update after 16 years

By Liam Dawe,
5
Ultima 7, what a classic. Released originally back in 1992 it continues to live on thanks to open source. Exult is a FOSS game engine for it and it finally has a fresh release.
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Valve details more changes for Artifact 2.0, with expanded single-player content coming

By Liam Dawe,
2
Valve continue to revamp Artifact behind the scenes for the upcoming re-release with Artifact 2.0 and they've discussed more changes that will come for their Dota themed card game.
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Epicinium - a strategy game where nature is a finite resource, to release free and going open source

By Liam Dawe,
1
Epicinium is a name I've not heard in some time. After a failed Kickstarter in 2018, they're back with their strategy game and the team at A Bunch of Hacks have a new plan for it which includes open source.
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With tons of weapons and turn-based combat that feels real-time 'Fractalis' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
1
Here's your morning dose of pixel art with Fractalis, a new roguelike that's just entered Early Access with some smooth turn-based combat that feels almost real-time.
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Minigalaxy, the FOSS Linux client for GOG adds support for Wine

By Liam Dawe,
22
While GOG don't support their own Galaxy client on Linux (yet?), work continues by the community on Minigalaxy, a streamlined free and open source Linux client for GOG.
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Build up your collection of Paradox DLC with the latest build your own Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
2
Well, this is a little different. Humble Bundle have teamed up with Paradox Interactive to allow you to build your own bundle of DLC for their games.
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Into the Breach from Subset Games (FTL) now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
33
Into the Breach, the second title from Subset Games (previously the excellent FTL), has today gained an official Linux build.
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Half-Life remake 'Black Mesa' has a post-release hotfix with a little Linux fix included

By Liam Dawe,
16
Black Mesa, the re-imaging of the original Half-Life released out of Early Access recently after a long development period and it's quite brilliant. Crowbar Collective have now release the first proper post-release hotfix.
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Award winning mobile game 'The Battle of Polytopia' is getting an updated release for PC

By Liam Dawe,
4
The Battle of Polytopia, a very successful and award winning turn based strategy game is confirmed to be coming to PC and it will have Linux support.
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Exploration, mining and crafting RPG 'Aground' has left Early Access to reach for the stars

By Liam Dawe,
1
Aground from Fancy Fish Games / SnöBox Studio and publisher Whitethorn Digital, a crafting RPG that steadily grows more complex has left Early Access.
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OpenRA has a new test release, plus the OpenRA powered RTS 'Fractured Realms' has a pre-release

By Liam Dawe,
10
OpenRA, the free and open source real-time strategy game engine for playing classic Westwood games has a new testing release up. Additionally, Fractured Realms, a game powered by OpenRA tech has a pre-release.
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ATOM RPG Trudograd entering Early Access in May - Linux version to come shortly after

By Liam Dawe,
9
ATOM RPG Trudograd is a standalone sequel to the successfully crowdfunded (and since released) ATOM RPG. While you don't need to have played the first, they are suggesting you do.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe,
1
Time to get building a massive theme park, as OpenRCT2 for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems with an enhanced feature-set has a new release up.
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Manjaro needs testers for the upcoming Manjaro GNOME 20.0 release - Snap and Flatpak support OOTB

By Liam Dawe,
25
Manjaro Linux is getting ready for their major release, and they're looking for your help to make sure the GNOME edition for Manjaro GNOME 20.0 is as smooth as possible.
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Direct 3D to Vulkan layer 'DXVK' 1.6.1 release out with plenty of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
7
DXVK when paired up with Wine (and integrated in Steam Play Proton) translates Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan enabling better performance on Linux for a lot of Windows games. Today, a brand new release went up.
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Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
51
ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers) is a brand of special hardware primarily aimed at PC gaming and work is now underway by the community to better support their laptops on Linux.
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The 'GameMode' performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe,
16
As possibly the last feature to be accepted and implemented before the big release, Feral Interactive's GameMode performance tool has been added officially into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
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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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