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Minecraft has a first snapshot up for the huge Caves & Cliffs update

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

While we have to wait until much later next year for the full release of Minecraft Caves & Cliffs, the team at Mojang have put out some of the new bits to play with in a snapshot development build.

Hacking and social deduction game Untrusted enters Beta

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

Up for a little mystery, hacking and trying to figure out who is out to get you? Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking/social deduction game.

Valve rolls out Steam Playtest to devs, new Steam Beta up with Linux improvements

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

Valve announced last night that they're beginning the proper roll-out of Steam Playtest, a system that allows developers to bring in testers without messing with beta keys. Additionally, a new Steam Client Beta is up.

Money for the Vultures is finished with the final DLC for Desperados III

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

The fantastic tactics game from Mimimi Games is finished, with the final Money for the Vultures now available for Desperados III allowing you visit a location from previous games.

Unity Technologies committed to supporting the Linux Editor for the Unity game engine

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

While Unity itself has long supported producing Linux builds of games and applications built with it, the actual Editor for Linux is still not fully supported - but that will change.

Face off against other ant colonies in the big Empires of the Undergrowth update

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

If you're afraid of everything creepy-crawly you might want to look away, as the ant colony management game Empires of the Undergrowth has a big update out.

Try out the awesome animated ASCII RPG with the new Stone Story demo

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

What is possibly one of the most impressive animated ASCII games ever made, Stone Story RPG now has a demo so you can get a glimpse of how seriously cool it is.

FPS game engine GZDoom 4.5.0 is out as the first 64bit only release

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

GZDoom, the modder-friendly OpenGL and Vulkan source port based on the DOOM engine has a major new release up as they drop support for 32bit.

Explore space and do some shady deals in Avorion - Black Market out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

Avorion - Black Market is the first full paid expansion to the excellent open-world space exploration and building sim and it looks great.

Steam has a huge City Builder sale going on right now until November 10

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

Need to get your mind off the world for a bit and perhaps create your own ideal society? Well, Valve are here to help with that with a new Steam sale.

GOverlay app adds support for the Linux instant-replay tool ReplaySorcery

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

GOverlay is the super useful user interface for managing overlays like MangoHud and the vulkan post processing layer vkBasalt. Now though, it's been extended to be even more useful.

Episodic point and click adventure 'Related' is up on Kickstarter, first chapter free

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

Related is a dark episodic point and click adventure that originally had a first episode release back in May 2020, with the team looking for funding to make more episodes.

The Craftworld Aeldari are heading to Warhammer 40,000: Gladius

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius is set for another race expansion, as the Craftworld Aeldari are coming in a fresh DLC a little later this month.

Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs in Mesa 20.3 will have some Bifrost support out of the box

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

The continuing battle to have open source Linux graphics drivers support everything possible continues, with the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs hitting more milestones.

Extreme sports game Descenders adds new bike types, tracks, tricks and more

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

RageSquid and No More Robots recently gave the extreme sports game Descenders quite a big free content upgrade, which includes plenty of fancy new extras.

Linux 5.11 to see better support for ASUS gaming laptop keyboards

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

Love ASUS hardware and their ASUS ROG tech? Well it seems Linux Kernel 5.11 will be pulling in some better support for their keyboards.

Open source OpenXR (VR/AR) runtime 'Monado', now passes conformance tests

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

Quite a huge milestone for the in-development open source OpenXR runtime Monado, as Collabora have announced a fresh milestone in its life.

Collabora will be at the Linux App Summit talking about their work with Valve

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2020

There's another interesting talk coming up this month that you might want to check out, with open source consulting firm Collabora chatting about their work with Valve.