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The Force Engine is a fresh attempt to rebuild the Jedi Engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
Recently appearing is a new open source game engine project called The Force Engine, with an aim to be an accurate version of the Jedi Engine that powered games like Dark Forces and Outlaws.
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Monster Sanctuary now allows you to enter The Underworld

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Creature capture and battle game Monster Sanctuary just had another huge update recently, adding in quite an interesting area to explore.
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The Yellow King, an indie dark horror MMO is now on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
The Yellow King is an Early Access massively-multiplayer online world with a dark horror theme and it's now available on Linux.
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3dSen PC will turn classic NES games into 3D on June 19

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
3dSen PC is quite magical. An emulator that not only runs classic NES games, it changes the way you play them and it now has an Early Access release date.
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Valve slowly begin sending out Artifact 2.0 invites

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Artifact 2.0, the revamp of Valve's failed competitive card game inches ever closer with the announcement of invites starting to slowly go out.
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Cross-platform game engine 'Defold' source code opens up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
16
Cross-platform game engine Defold has announced that the source code is now available under a reasonably generous license, along with the formation of a Defold Foundation.
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Try out some strategy, superpowers and sabotage in Jumpala

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
A competitive platformer like no other and one I'm already very fond of, Jumpala now has a demo on Steam ahead of the release later this year.
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11 years later Minecraft sells over 200 million copies

By Liam Squires-Hand,
16
It's hard to believe that Minecraft, a blocky survival game originally created over a weekend has gone onto sell over 200 million copies.
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Wizardry action game Wizard of Legend has a big anniversary update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Wizard of Legend has dungeon crawling, fast-paced action and a lot of different spells to choose from and on its second anniversary it just got even bigger.
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Explore the beautiful Canadian wilderness in Ruth's Journey

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
Ruth's Journey is an upcoming prologue for another bigger upcoming game called The Long Way Home from Nifty Llama Games. The trailer they just put out is quite mesmerising.
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Estranged: Act II to leave Early Access on May 22

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Estranged: Act II is an impressive and currently free first-person adventure game with certain horror and puzzle themes that has been a labour of love from developer Alan Edwardes and it's done.
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Spiritfarer, the cozy management game about dying is coming to GOG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Spiritfarer might have a seemingly depressing theme but it appears to handle it in such a beautiful way. It also looks gorgeous and it's one of my most anticipated games.
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Chapter 8 of Higurashi When They Cry Hou out now, first chapter free

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Higurashi When They Cry Hou, a very popular series of anime styled novels has the first chapter set temporarily free to claim and the final chapter is out now with Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi.
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Veloren, an open source RPG inspired by Cube World has a new release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Need a new place to meet up with friends? Veloren is a free and open source open-world RPG that just recently had a massive new release with a focus on firming up the content.
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Ancient board game Hnefatafl arrives on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Hnefatafl, the ancient 'board game of the vikings' just recently had a version ported to Linux from developer Philippe Schober and it sounds like quite a complete package.
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Wasteland 3 characters can have super powerful quirks

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
The first developer diary for Wasteland 3, which comes to Linux on August 28, shows off some of the customization and combat that's possible and it sounds ridiculous.
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Beautiful puzzle game Lumote plans to support Linux through Proton

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
Released back in February, Lumote is an incredibly vibrant and quite beautiful looking puzzle game and it seems Luminawesome Games plan to support Linux with Steam Play Proton.
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Come tell us about what you've been gaming on Linux lately

By Liam Squires-Hand,
75
Another week down, plenty of new games have released or been updated and we're about to begin another cycle. Let's have a chat.
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Terraria is finally done 9 years later with Journey's End

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Terraria, the side-scrolling sandbox exploration and crafting game from Re-Logic is finally done, with the Journey's End update that's out now.
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Experiment with light beams in the fantastic LIT: Bend the Light

By Liam Squires-Hand,
6
LIT: Bend the Light is a puzzle game about bouncing and bending around beams of light, and eventually finding a solution to each puzzle.
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