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Lenna's Inception, the Zelda-inspired adventure with a glitched world arrives January 17

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Bytten Studio, a tiny team made up of two former Chucklefish developers who previously worked on titles like Stardew Valley, Starbound and Wargroove have announced their debut title the Zelda-inspired Lenna’s Inception is releasing on January 17.
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The first DXVK release of 2020 is here with plenty of D3D9 improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
14
DXVK, the project that (since D9VK was merged) has turned into a massive translating unit of Direct 3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan has the first 2020 release available.
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Supernatural post-apocalypse strategic RPG 'Graywalkers: Purgatory' landing on Linux in February

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
February seems to be a popular month recently with LUNA The Shadow Dust, Dwarrows and now the great looking spooky XCOM-like Graywalkers: Purgatory also coming to Linux then.
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Crytivo (The Universim) to donate a bunch of their profits to help with Australian wildfires

By Liam Squires-Hand,
6
If you've seen any news lately, you've probably heard about what a terrible and frightening state Australia is currently in with the devastation from the wildfires.
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The Level Editor and Steam Workshop support for the crazy Streets of Rogue is now live

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Streets of Rogue, my personal pick for 2019 just expanded with a new update now out. This makes the Level Editor and Steam Workshop support fully live for everyone.
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The Humble Store Winter Sale is live, another FREE game is going too

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Another sale, time to pick up some cheap games if you missed some during other big sales last month. This time Humble Store have a big selection up and a free game to grab.
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3rd person adventure and town-building game 'Dwarrows' launches in February

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Lithic Entertainment are crafting a 3rd person adventure and town-building game, Dwarrows, which they've now given a release date with same-day Linux support expected.
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LUNA The Shadow Dust, the fantastic looking hand-animated adventure has a confirmed launch date

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
LUNA The Shadow Dust, developed by Lantern Studio with Application Systems Heidelberg giving them a publishing hand with the Western release have now announced the launch date.
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Steam getting expanded support for Soundtracks with a Sale Event on January 20

By Liam Squires-Hand,
29
Valve have announced that they're going to be giving Soundtracks their own special section on Steam instead of them being a generic DLC listing.
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Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome

By Liam Squires-Hand,
10
When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else so please send help.
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NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out, adds a fix for DXVK

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
NVIDIA continue advancing their special Vulkan Beta driver, the one that gets all the upcoming features that need a little extra time to brew.
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The Last Cube will bring some awesome-looking brain-teasers to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
Sometimes I come across a puzzle game that really sucks me in with a fancy trailer, The Last Cube is one such game.
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90s collectible card game Doomtrooper is being revived as a PC game, releasing for Linux this Spring

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Originally released in the 90s as a proper real-life game, the CCG (collectible card game) Doomtrooper was revived with a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017.
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Up for a retro adventure? The Space Quest II remake is now available on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Space Quest II from Sierra On-Line, originally released back in 1987 not long before I was born, has been revived by Infamous Adventures.
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Adventure game creator 'Visionaire Studio' is coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Visionaire Studio, quite a popular game engine for creating adventure games is bringing the editor to Linux with the next planned release.
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Minigalaxy, the free and open source Linux client for GOG has a new release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Progressing quickly, Minigalaxy is becoming quite a nice streamlined Linux client for managing GOG games since GOG themselves don't yet support Galaxy on Linux.
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The final Act of Kentucky Route Zero will release January 28

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Later this month, Kentucky Route Zero will finally be a finished story, seven years after the release of the first part.
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Fates of Ort, a fantasy RPG focused on strategic action releases March with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
A retro inspired fantasy RPG with a focus on strategic action? With a story? Fates of Ort looks and sounds like it's going to be very interesting to play.
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Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.
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UnCiv, a free and open source remake of Civilization V

By Liam Squires-Hand,
42
What do you do when you want to keep the mechanics of a game you love alive? If you're developer Yair Morgenstern, you remake it yourself like they did with UnCiv.
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