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Night of the Blood Moon, a cramped Nuclear Throne-like shooter is now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
3
Night of the Blood Moon from sole developer Tyler McDermott is a cramped and quite interesting action game that feels like a twin-stick shooter inspired by the likes of Nuclear Throne.
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Sparticles, a fast-paced platformer that reveals hidden terrain with particle explosions is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1
We have a lot of platformers, however Sparticles is one that looks incredibly unique visually due to the hidden terrain mechanic. It looks very colourful and really quite interesting.
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Age of Fear: The Free World, a free fantasy turn-based strategy game

By Liam Dawe,
5
For those in need of their next turn-based strategy game, the Age of Fear series now has a free entry for you to test the waters.
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I’m in shock at just how well Overwatch runs with the latest DXVK and Lutris

By Liam Dawe,
53
You might remember, that back in September last year I talked a little about Lutris and Overwatch together and how it was working well. Here’s an update on how it's been going.
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Lord of Dwarves will have you build large structures and defend them, developed on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
7
Here's a fun one, Lord of Dwarves from developer Stellar Sage Games is a game about helping a kingdom of dwarves survive, build, and prosper. It's made on Linux too and releasing in Early Access in March.
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Dead Ascend, an open source point and click 2D adventure game

By Liam Dawe,
1
For those wanting to check out another open source game or perhaps see how they're made, Dead Ascend might be a fun choice for a little adventure.
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The new System Shock is looking quite impressive with the latest artwork

By Liam Dawe,
6
System Shock, the remake coming eventually from Nightdive Studios continues along in development and it's looking impressive.
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vkQuake2, the project adding Vulkan support to Quake 2 now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
10
At the start of this year, I gave a little mention to vkQuake2, a project which has updated the classic Quake 2 with various improvements including Vulkan support.
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Protontricks, a handy tool for doing various tweaks with Steam Play has been forked

By Liam Dawe,
11
For those brave enough to attempt to get more Windows games to run through Steam Play, Protontricks is a handy solution and it's been forked.
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By Liam Dawe,
47
Hello everyone, I hope you're all having a good weekend playing some fun games. Just a reminder, that we rely on user support.
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Valve put out another Steam Beta Client with minor Steam Play changes

By Liam Dawe,
35
Valve are pushing out updates rather often to the Steam client lately, with the fourth this month now out.
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Juicy like the good stuff, Wine 4.0 RC7 is out with a delightful aroma

By Liam Dawe,
4
No need to worry about a sour aftertaste here, we're of course talking about the wonderful software and not the tasty liquid.
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Become a fish inside a robot in Feudal Alloy, out now with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
3
We've seen plenty of robots and we've seen a fair amount of fish, but have you seen a fish controlling a robot with a sword? Say hello to Feudal Alloy.
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Ravva and the Cyclops Curse looks like a rather nice NES-inspired platformer

By Liam Dawe,
1
Another lovely looking retro-inspired platformer! Ravva and the Cyclops Curse from developer Galope just released this week with Linux support.
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Battle Motion, a really silly massive fantasy battle game will have Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
0
Sometimes when looking around for new games I come across something that really catches my eye, Battle Motion is one such game as it looks completely silly.
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Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
103
Now that Steam has the ability officially to override a Linux game and run it through Steam Play instead, let's take a quick look at some differences in performance.
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Quake 2 now has real-time path tracing with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
12
If you have one of the more recent NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, here's an interesting project for you to try. Q2VKPT from developer Christoph Schied implements some really quite advanced techniques.
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Dicey Dungeons, the new unique roguelike from Terry Cavanagh and co introduces quests

By Liam Dawe,
5
We have a lot of roguelikes available on Linux (seriously, we do) yet Dicey Dungeons from Terry Cavanagh, Marlowe Dobbe, and Chipzel still remains fresh due to the rather unique game mechanics.
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The Beta of Zombie Panic! Source was updated recently, should work better on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
3
Zombie Panic! Source is currently going through an overhaul, as part of this it's coming to Linux with a version now in beta and the latest update should make it a better experience.
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Another Steam Client Beta is out, adds the ability to force Steam Play

By Liam Dawe,
115
Valve are working fast to improve the Steam client this year, with another beta now available including an option that was highly requested.
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