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Team Cherry upgrade the excellent Hollow Knight with Vulkan for Linux
Team Cherry have given their excellent action-platformer metroidvania Hollow Knight a bit of an upgrade, which you can test out on Steam in a fresh Beta test.
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PixelJunk Raiders is the next Stadia exclusive, will have State Share and free for Pro
While Google will no longer be doing any first-party games it seems they're still going to pull in exclusives. They've revealed PixelJunk Raiders along with the Stadia Pro line-up for March and other new games coming.
Of Mice and Moggies is an absolutely adorable puzzle game of constant cat-and-mouse
Of Mice and Moggies is a game of cat and mouse, quite literally, as you step by step chase around mice and other animals in small but very clever puzzles. The adorable setting, as well as the excellent presentation and well designed puzzles are worth a look.
Super Plexis is a fresh competitive tile-matching battler with cross-platform PvP
Do you love tile-matching? How about games similar to Tetris Attack, Puzzle League and other competitive tile-matchers? You will enjoy Super Plexis then which is out in Early Access.
Go on a journey through time in Two Point Hospital: A Stitch in Time out now
Two Point Studios and SEGA just surprise released the latest expansion for the comedy building and management sim Two Point Hospital with Two Point Hospital: A Stitch in Time out now.
Stone Age co-op farming sim Roots of Pacha is live on Kickstarter
You've played plenty of farming sims by now or at least seen plenty but have you done some farming in the Stone Age? Roots of Pacha is coming to Linux and it's live on Kickstarter.
KUR is an upcoming retro-styled FPS where you'll be kicking flesh-wearing robots
With the retro-themed first-person shooter genre alive and well we have another entry upcoming with KUR, in development by Really Ragdoll with publisher The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild.
Jupiter Hell 0.9.7 'Expanse' is out, full release planned for August 5
After being in Early Access for 18 months following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the brutal and brilliant roguelike Jupiter Hell will leave Early Access on August 5.
Transport Fever 2 gets a huge upgrade with Vulkan API support
Urban Games are showing their dedication to Transport Fever 2, as they just today release a massive overhaul to the rendering system along with adding support for the Vulkan API.
Google, Bungie, id Software all under fire in a new Stadia lawsuit
One day Google might catch a break with their cloud gaming service Stadia but it's not now and perhaps rightfully so in this case. There's a new proposed class action lawsuit over the streaming quality and display resolution on Stadia.
RetroArch announce the Open Hardware project, plus a new fantasy console core
The team behind the RetroArch application have announced the Open Hardware project, their attempt to make things easy for you and they also recently added a new fantasy console core to play with.
With a few days left on the Kickstarter, Ova Magica has been an incredible success
Making games is hard, marketing games and cutting through the noise is just as hard but for Claudia Gorsky they've managed both amazingly well with Ova Magica.
Puzzle-battler Aloof is launching on March 25 and it looks fab, do try the demo
A puzzle-battler? Think like Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Puyo Puyo Tetris but with a new and fresh spin and that's what you're going to get with Aloof on March 25.
Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition returns on June 16
Ready for a bunch more demos, livestreams and more? The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition is set to return on June 16 and Valve are looking for developers to get involved.
Take-Two Interactive hit the DMCA nuke on GTA III and Vice City reverse engineered effort
It was only recently that we picked up the news of both GTA III and Vice City getting a fully working reverse engineered game engine, along with plenty of upgrades. Sadly, and expectedly, it got nuked from orbit.
Linux Mint want to remind you to run updates
In a fresh blog post, Linux Mint's leader Clem Lefebvre has written about some statistics on people running out of date software and warned people to ensure they're running updates.
Linux lands on Mars with Perseverance and Ingenuity
Here is your morning dose of miscellaneous Linux news. Not gaming but still very cool - Linux has officially landed on Mars with the Perseverance Rover.
Open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 24 is out now with plenty of new features
After a few years of waiting, Wildfire Games have released a big upgrade for the free and open source real-time strategy game 0 A.D. with Alpha 24 now available.
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation lib VKD3D-Proton 2.2 is out, prepares DirectX Raytracing
We just recently had the DXVK 1.8 release for Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan and now we also have the VKD3D-Proton 2.2 release landing as well.
Collabora share big progress on the Wine compatibility layer with Wayland
Collabora have shared a great progress update on getting Wine working directly with Wayland, which is going to eventually replace X11 on most Linux distributions.
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