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Alwa's Legacy the successor to Alwa's Awakening announced with a Kickstarter campaign

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Alwa's Awakening was released back in 2017 to some rather good reviews, so Elden Pixels are back with the successor Alwa's Legacy.

City-builder Kingdoms and Castles expands again with new buildings and resources

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As the small team behind the excellent city-builder Kingdoms and Castles work towards adding in rival AI, they've released another meaty update.

Fast-paced shoot and loot FPS Black Ice adds a big new area and grenade launchers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I already had trouble deciding what weapons to keep in Black Ice and now they've gone and added in grenades and grenade launchers? I need more slots.

Co-op real-time strategy game A Year Of Rain for Linux is a "TOP Priority"

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Daedalic Entertainment just released their brand new co-op focused competitive RTS, A Year Of Rain, into Early Access and they confirm that a Linux version is a high priority.

Dead Cells gets bigger again with a new mini-biome and mutations

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The brilliant rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer Dead Cells has another awesome content update available now.

Seven years ago today, Steam for Linux went into limited Beta

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sometimes it only feels like it was a year or two ago but no, it has been seven years to the date since the valve was opened a little to let some Linux users get some Steam.

The first Beta of Godot Engine 3.2 has been released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The team behind the FOSS game engine, Godot Engine, have now released the first Beta in the 3.2 series so the full release is coming close now with lots of new goodies for game developers.

Abbey Games announce they're going to let staff go in December as they "scope down"

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Abbey Games, a developer known for titles like Reus, Renowned Explorers: International Society and most recently Godhood announced today things aren't going so well.

Wilderness survival game Wayward has a massive feature update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Seemingly stranded on an unknown island, Wayward is an indie pixel-art game of surviving in the wilderness.

Transport Fever 2 confirmed for release on December 11, Linux support included

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Entering the GOL mailbox today is an announcement about Transport Fever 2 getting a release date! It's arriving on December 11, with Linux support ready for release.

Psyonix talk more about the upcoming Blueprint system for Rocket League

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Coming soon to Rocket League is the replacement of loot boxes, part of this is the new previously announced Blueprint system and Psyonix are now ready to talk a little more about it.

Another big SteamVR update is out now, with plenty of Linux fixes for VR enthusiasts

By Liam Squires-Hand,
SteamVR 1.8 is now out of Beta and with it, comes plenty of updates to the whole system with some big audio changes and some good sounding Linux fixes.

The FOSS rendering engine OGRE is being ported to Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Some fun news for game developers and the Vulkan ecosystem as another FOSS rendering engine is being ported over to Vulkan.

Looks like Valve could be set to launch something called Steam Cloud Gaming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
We have Google Stadia (soon), PlayStation Now, Xbox Game Streaming, EA's Project Atlas is coming and more but what about Valve with Steam? Well, sounds like Steam Cloud Gaming is coming.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition released with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition from Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montréal and Square Enix has been released today with a Linux port available from Feral Interactive. With an included port report.

Microsoft confirm their new Chromium-powered Edge browser is coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Not Linux gaming related, sure but still very interesting news. During their Ignite conference, Microsoft confirmed their new Chromium-based Edge browser will release for Linux.

Fix up some pipes the puzzler game Flux Caves, now temporarily free

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Flux Caves is like playing with a massive set of marbles, only someone came along and pulled a bunch of pieces out and you have to put it back together.

Bridge Constructor Portal is getting a Portal Proficiency DLC where you place the portals

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Bridge Constructor Portal was a surprise highlight when it released in 2017, an unlikely crossover between two completely different games and it worked. Thanks to the positive reception, more is coming with a twist.

EVERSPACE 2 is officially funded and on the way to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After looking a little iffy in the last few days, ROCKFISH Games managed to pull it out of the bag and end up getting over their initial funding goal for their space action adventure EVERSPACE 2.

Vertebreaker, a new pixel-art side-scroller from former Sonic Mania developer Headcannon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Headcannon might not be a name too familiar to a Linux gaming focused audience but they're quite well-known for helping with Sonic Mania development and they're now making their own game with Vertebreaker.