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Joining many other companies that seemingly woke up to actually supporting free and open source software, Unity has now pledged funding towards Blender.
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NVIDIA and accelerated Xwayland gets closer with code that 'sounds unpleasant'
Red Hat developer Adam Jackson has opened a new merge request for the Mesa project, with what they're calling GLX Delay, to bring accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver.
Baldur's Gate engine remake GemRB celebrates 20 years with a new release
GemRB, a fine example of an open source game engine reimplementation for the Infinity Engine that powered the classic RPGs including Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment games celebrates two big things.
GOL asks: what are you playing? Come chat
As another week comes to a close it's time to have a chat with the GOL readership about what you're all playing lately, come and let us know.
Fantastic 2D action-RPG 'Chronicon' has now released
Chronicon is an example of pure dedication, as Subworld developed this excellent 2D action RPG over the course of over five years and it's now left Early Access.
Airships: Conquer the Skies hits 100K sales, new update live too plus interview
One man band David Stark has managed to hit quite a milestone, with their game Airships: Conquer the Skies hitting over 100K sales.
Chunky pixel first-person dungeon crawler Delver is now up on itch.io
Something for the weekend perhaps, as the excellent first-person dungeon crawler Delver has been released DRM-free on the indie game store itch.io.
Commandos 2 - HD Remaster due for Linux PC support 'this Winter'
Like a lot of things across this year, the actual Linux PC version of Commandos 2 - HD Remaster has been pushed back to this Winter.
For the People is a political management visual novel out now
Mixing up the visual novel genre with a little management and plenty of politics, For the People from Brezg Studio is out now with Linux PC support.
The Long Dark will not see Episode 4 until next year
Hinterland Studio have given an update on the progress of the next episode of the single-player story for the survival game The Long Dark.
Slimesphere is a sweet turn-based strategy that feels like each level is a puzzle
Slimesphere, the first release from Matheus Reis is a streamlined turn-based strategy game about warring slimes, where each level feels like a puzzle.
Domino House is an upcoming slightly creepy escape room puzzler
Releasing later this year in October, Domino House is a 2D escape-room styled point and click puzzler with a somewhat creepy feel to it.
Heliborne - Enhanced Edition is out now and it's been really badly received
After buying the rights to the combat flight sim Heliborne from JetCatGames, the team at Klabater have updated Heliborne into an Enhanced Edition that's out now.
The Steam Play Proton compatibility layer turns two years old
Two years ago to the date, Valve Software made an announcement that would change Linux gaming on Steam: that announcement was the new version of Steam Play with the Proton compatibility layer.
The puzzle series Hexcells gets a huge discount and dark mode
Developer Matthew Brown has crafted a set of brilliant puzzle games with the Hexcells series and it seems they're not entirely finished with them years after release.
System76 reveal the true monster desktop-class laptop 'Bonobo WS'
Need a desktop PC crammed into a laptop powered by Linux? Linux hardware and Pop!_OS distribution maker System76 have you covered, with the reveal of their new absolute behemoth the Bonobo WS.
Manage a private space company in EarthX and go to Mars
With a name that's clearly a parody of SpaceX, the indie game EarthX has you build up and manage a private space company and with a recent update you can go to Mars.
Mythicard is an upcoming free online card-based auto battler
Do you enjoy build up a good deck of powerful cards? How about competitive online matches? Keep an eye on the upcoming Mythicard, a free to play auto-battler.
Darkest Dungeon: The Butcher's Circus is now available for Linux PC
Red Hook Studios have released an update to the free Darkest Dungeon: The Butcher's Circus DLC, which now includes Linux PC support too.
Dynamic physics 3D platformer 'Crumble' to launch in December - try the demo
Crumble, a 3D platformer I've been excitedly following for quite some time actually has a release date now and they plan to launch it on December 4, 2020.
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