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Skullgirls is getting improved online play, plus updated sound code for Linux in a Beta up now

By Liam Dawe,
1
Skullgirls, the seriously good fighting game from Lab Zero Games that released originally in 2013 is still being updated and a major improvement is in testing.
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Open source PS4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' major release up with VA-API support

By Liam Dawe,
13
Giving you another way to enjoy your games from various sources on Linux, the free and open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' has a new major update.
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Seriously scary game Alien: Isolation hits an all-time low price for Alien Day

By Liam Dawe,
18
A quick tip for you this morning! Alien: Isolation, one of the scariest games I've ever played has hit an all-time low price.
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Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia released with Xfce, KDE and GNOME editions - Snap and Flatpak support included

By Liam Dawe,
31
Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia has been released today, as the latest major refresh for this Arch Linux based distribution.
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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

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This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.
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Wine 5.7 is out with more WineD3D Vulkan work, a start on a USB device driver

By Liam Dawe,
13
The Wine compatibility layer has another development release out today with Wine 5.7 adding in some new features.
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LudoNarraCon digital festival starts today on Steam with a sale and livestreams

By Liam Dawe,
1
LudoNarraCon has returned, with another digital event now live on Steam to celebrate narrative games.
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NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out with some important Linux fixes

By Liam Dawe,
7
Last week NVIDIA released a new Vulkan Beta Driver which came with some issues, a new build has gone out today fixing some of the most pressing.
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Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

By Liam Dawe,
39
As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.
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Dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike RPG 'Iratus: Lord of the Dead' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
6
Iratus: Lord of the Dead from developer Unfrozen and publisher Daedalic Entertainment has now left Early Access, with it full Linux support is now also up.
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It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
21
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.
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Verdant Village puts a high-fantasy spin on Stardew Valley styled gameplay - try it free

By Liam Dawe,
2
Currently in development with it classed as being in an "alpha state", Verdant Village seems like a sweet and promising high fantasy alternative to Stardew Valley with some new themes.
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You can play XCOM 2 free until April 30 and you definitely should try it

By Liam Dawe,
6
XCOM 2, likely one of my absolutely all-time favourite strategy games can be played for free until April 30.
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Simple local-multiplayer PvP real-time strategy title 'Rover Wars' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
0
Rover Wars strips down the RTS genre to some of the basics and makes it a competitive local multiplayer game, it's actually pretty darn fun and it's out now.
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New release of Steam Audio and the next Steam Labs project is up focused on game searching

By Liam Dawe,
2
Valve continue to improve Steam at quite a rapid pace lately. Recently, they not only released a new beta of Steam Audio but they also put up a new experiment.
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Distro News - Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa', Ubuntu MATE and other flavours released

By Liam Dawe,
43
Today is the big day for Canonical and their partners. Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' is officially released as their new LTS (Long Term Support) edition along with other desktop flavours like Ubuntu MATE.
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Prison Architect getting a free 'Cleared for Transfer' expansion on May 14

By Liam Dawe,
2
Today, Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven announced that Prison Architect will be getting a free expansion on May 14 named 'Cleared for Transfer'.
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Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
3
Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.
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Literary mystery adventure 'Sarawak' announced, developed on Linux - releasing early 2021

By Liam Dawe,
0
Ready to do a deep-dive into a new text-adventure? Sarawak definitely rises high on my curiosity scale with gameplay split between interactive narrative choices and image-based puzzles.
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The classic Escape Velocity: Override is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override

By Liam Dawe,
2
Escape Velocity: Override, something of a classic from the 90s is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override and it's seeking funding on Kickstarter.
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