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If you can't login to World of Warcraft or WoW Classic on Linux, here's a quick fix for now

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2019

It seems Blizzard have been having some issues with World of Warcraft and the newer WoW Classic with them coming under a DDoS attack. Their countermeasures seem to have blocked Linux players in Wine but there's a fix.

Rebel Cops, a turn-based spin-off game from This Is the Police is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2019

Announced only recently by Weappy Studio and THQ Nordic, Rebel Cops will pull out the turn-based strategy element from This Is the Police and create a game out of it.

Unique tower-based strategy game Protolife is heading to Linux, needs more testing

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2019

Protolife is a strange beast, not really like other tower defense strategy games and little over a year after the release it's coming to Linux.

FOSS voice chat application Mumble has finally put out the massive 1.3 overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2019

Move over Discord, Mumble has rolled back into town with a massive new release for this open source voice chat application.

Visual Novel Misadventures of Laura Silver: Chapter I released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 9 Sep 2019

If you need a good Visual Novel, the Misadventures of Laura Silver: Chapter I released with Linux support last month.

DXVK 1.3.4 is out with a few quick fixes, plus more updates to Proton GE

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2019

Two bits of Wine related news for you to peruse over this fine Sunday evening, as both DXVK and Proton GE have new releases available.

Manjaro levels up as a serious Linux distribution

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2019

Today, the team at Manjaro shared some pretty big news for the future of the Linux distribution and it sounds great.

Distro News

Game manager Lutris just had a huge update with D9VK, Discord Rich Presence and more

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2019

Need something to manage all your games from different places? Lutris is pretty handy and it just had a huge upgrade.

If you need help managing NVIDIA Optimus check out this little tool

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2019

Canonical developer Martin Wimpress shared an update to their handy NVIDIA Optimus GPU switcher, might be worth a look if you're in need of something to make it easier.

The Kickstarter for EVERSPACE 2 has been delayed to work on it a little more first

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2019

ROCKFISH have announced that the upcoming Kickstarter campaign for the space shooter EVERSPACE 2 has been delayed until October 2nd.

NVIDIA has a new Vulkan Beta driver which may fix multiple titles with DXVK and Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2019

It seems the NVIDIA driver has had a few issues lately with multiple titles played with DXVK and Steam Play, so they've put out a new Vulkan Beta driver in need of some testing.

A new Humble Monthly is up with BATTLETECH as an early unlock

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

Looks like another good Humble Monthly has just arrived, as the early unlock game is the strategy title BATTLETECH which has Linux support.

You can now level up your Dota Underlords Proto-Pass to 99

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

Valve have uncapped the Proto-Pass, allowing players to level it up all the way now and earn even more rewards for playing the game. That, plus more smaller bits in the latest update.

Vagrus - The Riven Realms, the dark narrative RPG surpasses more milestones on Fig and it's coming to GOG

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

The dark narrative-focused RPG Vagrus - The Riven Realms has surpassed $40K in funding on Fig's Open Access program, so they've hit more development milestones and it seems GOG were impressed by it.

The incredibly atmospheric racing platformer Distance just got even bigger

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

Finished the main campaign adventure mode in Distance? Well there's now even more levels for you to try and beat in the latest big update to the fantastic and challenging racing platformer.

Turn-based 4X game with mythological units Fantastic Creatures confirmed to be heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

Set in a divine Chinese realm, Fantastic Creatures is a 4x strategy game about a dying world full of mythological creatures and later this year it will release with Linux support.

Celeste Chapter 9 to arrive with over 100 new levels next week in a free update

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

If you enjoyed the highly rated tight platformer Celeste, we've got good news for you as a huge free update is due to arrive next week.

Valve has some new Steam search features with Steam Labs, updates to Micro Trailers

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

Valve has announced some more updates to Steam Labs, their new testing area for features that may make it into Steam officially at some point.

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Comedy point and click adventure Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest releasing this month

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2019

Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest from the small Ukrainian team Specialbit Studio is now due to release on September 27th and it looks like it could be pretty amusing.