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The Khronos Group recently announced a provisional specification of OpenXR, a royalty-free open-standard aimed at unifying access to VR and AR (collectively known as XR) devices. Also, Collabora announced Monado, a fully open source OpenXR runtime for Linux.

Now that the dust has settled on the Google Stadia news, here's something entirely different: The Humble Curve Digital Bundle.

Google have now finally unveiled their new cloud gaming service named Stadia, offering instant access to play games in Google Chrome.

OtherSide Entertainment have teased out a new short video of System Shock 3 and it may see Linux support.

It occurred to me today, that no one here at GOL seems to have ever written about the free and open source turn-based survival game Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead.

Last year, we wrote a small bit on how the developer of Gloomhaven was keeping an eye on all the requests for Linux support. It seems they've taken notice.

Convoy seems to be seeing some good post-release support from developer Convoy Games, with a free content update now available.

Two Point Studios and SEGA have put out the first expansion for Two Point Hospital with Pebberley Island.

For those who love their DRM-free gaming, GOG have just recently put up their latest weekly sale with quite a few Linux games available.

The Culling was probably the second Battle Royale game I ever played, after the Hunger Games in Minecraft and it seemed to never really click and so it's shutting down.

Remember the Atari VCS, the Linux-powered gaming console? Well it's still alive and they've decided to give it a bit of an upgrade.

Spoxel is an action adventure sandbox RPG that's been in development for a few years now, with it almost about to leave the long and dark development tunnel.

Egosoft recently put out the Linux beta of X4: Foundations as promised, it's been running well on Linux and a fresh update is out now too.

Not a fan of Lutris or just want to try something different? GameHub could be a pretty good option for you.

Broforce is the game from developer Free Lives that made me fall in love with platformers again, can they do the same for base-building tower defense games? Second Earth could be good when further developed.

The RPCS3 team have a huge mountain to climb to get more PlayStation 3 titles playable but it's all coming together now.

For those who love their games that involve sports, Football Story sounds like it could be one to watch.

Battle for Wesnoth, the classic open source turn-based strategy game has been around for a long time and it seems they're going to switch over to the Godot Engine.

SDL2, the cross-platform development library has now merged in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter.

For those who have trouble keeping up with all the happenings, here's another bite-sized round-up of some interesting Linux gaming news recently.