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There's going to be a Vulkan event in the UK, Feral Interactive & Croteam will be attending

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
On May 25th there's a Vulkan event happening in the UK. Organised by Khronos UK, there will be a number of interesting talks including Croteam and Feral Interactive.
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Some thoughts on becoming a mummified redneck in 'Immortal Redneck', a pretty good FPS for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Become a mummified redneck in the FPS Immortal Redneck, here’s some thoughts I cooked up for you plus a gameplay video.
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TerraTech has a major update with a creative mode, new blocks and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
TerraTech is a promising Early Access game where you create land and air based vehicles to combat with.
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Good deals going this week for Linux gamers, a quick look

By Liam Squires-Hand,
15
A day later than I usually like to do it, but here's another of my weekly articles pointing out some good Linux game sales.
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Adventure game Syberia 3 looks like it will be heading over to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
18
Adventure game Syberia 3 is showing signs that it might release on Linux. It does look pretty good, so hopefully it works out.
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Phoenix Point from the original creator of X-COM is now crowdfunding on Fig

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
I haven't been this excited for quite a while, the original creator of X-COM, Julian Gollop, and the rest of his studio Snapshot Games have put up Phoenix Point for crowdfunding on Fig.
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Lil Tanks is a well polished and action packed side-scroller available for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
I've been playing Lil Tanks and I think it's a fantastic side-scrolling action game well worth a look.
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UniBall, a completely free to play online 2D sports game arrives on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
UniBall, a simple and completely free online sports game has arrived on Linux. I tested it out and it's actually pretty sweet.
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OpenRCT2, an open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
It appears we've never mentioned OpenRCT2 before, a fully featured open source engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2!
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Stardew Valley 1.2 is out with more languages, better gamepad support and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
6
Stardew Valley, the lovely and addictive 2D game from ConcernedApe has a big new patch out and here's what's new.
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A look at 'Meganoid', the platformer with roguelike elements from Orangepixel

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
Orangepixel's latest game 'Meganoid' is a platformer with randomly generated levels. I tried it out and here's some thoughts.
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OpenRA has a new release with HiDPI font rendering, more Dune 2000 missions and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
6
OpenRA is easily one of my favourite open source projects. It allows us to play early Westwood RTS games like Red Alert and Dune 2000 in a modern engine on Linux. The latest release is a good one too.
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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

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This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.
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Linux gamers on Arch may want to hold off on updating due to openssl breaking some games (updated)

By Liam Squires-Hand,
58
It seems an Arch update today has broken a few games, several Feral Interactive titles as well as Civilization VI from Aspyr Media no longer run. UPDATED, see the bottom.
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Dota 2 has massive changes to matchmaking that should give better games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
14
Dota 2 has been through a small evolution in the matchmaking to hopefully improve the experience for everyone.
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Project Zomboid has another major update with tons of bugs fixes and new map items

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Project Zomboid, the sandbox Zombie survival game that can be played in single-player and multi-player has another major version bump.
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Peace, Death! Possibly one of the weirdest games I've played for a while

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
We do get our fair share of completely weird games, today's weird one is Peace, Death! You are a Reaper and your task is to correctly decide if people go to Heaven or Hell.
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Some thoughts on 'Hollow Knight', an incredibly rich and unexpectedly great game

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
I knew Hollow Knight was going to be impressive when going into it, but I didn't realize how impressive it was.
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OpenLara, an impressive open source engine for classic Tomb Raider has a WebGL demo

By Liam Squires-Hand,
29
OpenLara was pointed out to me as it's an open source game engine to run classic Tomb Raider titles on Linux, it also has a WebGL support and a demo to show it off in-browser.
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Overload, the really great six-degree-of-freedom shooter has a major update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
Overload, the six-degree-of-freedom shooter that really surprised me for how good it felt has a major update.
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