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Pick up your sword, your shovel and prepare for an almighty headbutt as Minecraft Caves & Cliffs: Part 1 has been confirmed for release on June 8.
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Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 25 to release in June with feature-freeze imminent
Wildfire Games have given an update on the status of 0 A.D. Alpha 25, which they've now confirmed the feature freeze will begin on June 6 to focus on getting it release ready.
Fanatical has some good bundles going right now if you need some new games
Fanatical aren't a store we cover often but they're actually great, and they currently have a few bundles going that you should check out if you need some new games this week.
1998 classic strategy game Signus: The Artefact Wars sees a full open source release
Signus: The Artefact Wars, originally a commercial release in 1998 was later open sourced in 2002 and it just got an updated re-release with all the data too.
Retro game streaming service Piepacker is quite impressive and works well on Linux
We've seen numerous game streaming services now like Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and probably more to come. They all focus on the new and shiny but what about old games? Piepacker is going to be a hit for that.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries runs great on Linux with Proton now it's on Steam
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, the first single player MechWarrior game for a long time has jumped from the Epic Store over to Steam and it runs well on Linux.
Linux distribution Solus joins Open Collective for funding hardware and developers
Solus, a popular standalone Linux distribution has announced they've joined Open Collective as they attempt to pull in funding to push ahead with it.
Two more 11th Gen Intel Core processors announced i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe
Computex 2021 is now in full swing and Intel came out with two new processors as part of their 11th Gen Intel Core U-series designed for thin and light laptops with the i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe graphics.
Grab a coffee and come read the latest Sunday Section - May 30
Time to round-up some of the smaller items we unfortunately didn't get time to go over this week, grab a coffee and relax with a short read of some good stuff.
Bitmapflow helps artists generate inbetweens for animated sprites
Are you developing games? Making awesome gifs of things and whatever else? Bitmapflow is a very clever application that will generate extra parts of animations to make them smoother.
Retro Commander is a "4X post-apocalyptic RTS" that now has an Alpha available
Want to try your hand at an in-development RTS that has some potential? Check out Retro Commander, from Noble Master Games ( Age of Conquest IV, Demise of Nations).
Valve looks to be overhauling Steam Library folders to finally make them more useful
We're seeing even more leaks out of a recent Steam Beta update from Valve that not only hinted at the SteamPal console, and the new Downloads page but also a big overhaul to the Library manager.
The visually striking action-adventure Resolutiion gets another big upgrade
Haven't picked up Resolutiion yet? You're missing out on a wonderful trip through some seriously striking scenes in this action-adventure game. Now is a great time to grab it with a sale and a big upgrade.
Eagle Island Twist has released as a massive free content upgrade for Eagle Island
Eagle Island from developer Pixelnicks has expanded and turned into Eagle Island Twist, now featuring a whole new campaign to play through that's very different to the original.
An interview with Kodera Software, creator of the hard sci-fi ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Today we present another interview with a game developer! We had a chat with Kodera Software, creator of the hard sci-fi ΔV: Rings of Saturn which is available in Early Access.
Look after and manage young pop stars in Idol Manager, with a Beta available now
Here's one we completely missed from Kickstarter that was fully funded back in 2018 and has a Beta available now. Idol Manager is all about developing your agency and looking after the stars of tomorrow.
rpg-cli turns your filesystem into a 'JRPG-inspired' terminal game
If you've used the Linux command-line before you've likely done plenty of CD commands to change directory - but what if that was an RPG? Not that you asked but rpg-cli answered.
Learn to break locks in Sophie's Safecracking Simulator
Sophie's Safecracking Simulator is a wonderful little experience (is it even a game?) that gives you the opportunity to attempt to break various locks.
OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other with Mesa drivers
Not specifically gaming related but we love to cover industry stuff too, that might be interesting for some of our more technically minded users. Collabora have mentioned that thanks to work done on Mesa, OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other.
The Steam Open World Sale is now live so go run free with your monies
Over on the Steam store Valve are running an Open World Sale full of games that let you run around and go exploring. Although, as usual, there's plenty included in the sale that you wouldn't expect.
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- Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features
- Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion
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