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Steamworks gets Denuvo Anti-Cheat, here's what Irdeto say about Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

Irdeto, the company behind Denuvo and the newer Denuvo Anti-Cheat have announced that developers on Steam can now get direct anti-cheat integration through Steamworks. Here's what they said about working with Linux.

NERTS! Online from Zachtronics gets expanded public multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

NERTS! Online is the free to play card game from the clever people at Zachtronics (Eliza, Opus Magnum, Infinifactory) that was created to help them play together that they released free to the public.

Stellaris will get more mysterious with Intel gathering and Espionage systems

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

Stellaris from Paradox Development Studios gets a lot right in how it deals with grand space strategy but some parts of it are still being expanded.

Silly comedy adventure Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac gets a permanent price drop

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac, a comedy point and click adventure by La Poule Noire that released in early 2020 has been given a big permanent price cut.

Open source PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play client Chiaki has a final release

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

The developer of Chiaki, a free and open source Remote Play client that supports both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 has gone out with a bit of a bang.

With turn-based strategy and time management the VN Lotus Reverie: First Nexus is out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

After a brand new visual novel that does a little more than walk you through a story? Lotus Reverie: First Nexus looks like a good option taking inspiration from Devil Survivor and Persona.

GOG has a huge sale on RPGs and sees the return of the classic Moonstone

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight is something of a classic, a game from my childhood and it has returned to GOG to give you an easy way to grab it and GOG are running a huge sale on RPGs.

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Möbius Front '83 from Zachtronics now has online and AI multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Möbius Front '83, the difficult turn-based strategy game from puzzle masters Zachtronics has seen a big free expansion adding in quite a lot.

Odin is finally pleased so the open-world survival game Valheim releases on February 2

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Odin has finally had enough sacrifices and shall be releasing Valheim from Iron Gate AB will enter Early Access with Linux and Windows support on February 2.

Irena Genesis Metal Fury is an upcoming shoot 'em up for the Sega Mega Drive

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis)? That's not a piece of Linux gaming hardware last I checked? No but Irena Genesis Metal Fury is a new game coming for the retro console and will provide the rom file for your favourite emulators.

Bytten Studio say not to sleep on Linux in their postmortem for Lenna's Inception

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Lenna's Inception is a top-down Zelda-like action-adventure game with a world that is glitching, with a style that can switch between 8-bit and 32-bit pixel art styles.

Harvest Days is an upcoming open-ended country-life RPG

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Currently in development by a father and son team, Harvest Days is another fresh 3D take on the casual farming-life RPG and it will be coming to Linux too.

Wine compat layer devs discuss new Kernel interface to better match Windows NT

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Wine developer Zebediah Figura has sent in a proposal to work on a new Linux Kernel interface for Wine synchronization primitives, one that gets closer to performance and behaviour of Windows NT.

Godot Engine gets a sixth 3.2.4 beta with a new CPU lightmapper

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

The Godot team just keep on adding in big new features to make this one of the best free and open source game engines around and the next Beta update for Godot 3.2.4 is out now.

Stadia 'State Share' to launch with HITMAN 3

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

One of the features Google talked about early with Stadia is finally coming and that is State Share. Allowing players to share specific playable moments of captures and it's launching with HITMAN 3.

What we expect to come from Valve to help Linux gaming in 2021

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2021

By now you've probably heard either through us in our previous article or elsewhere that Valve are cooking something up to help Linux gaming even further. We have an idea on what one part of it is.

Familiars.io is a MMO monster catching game where the creatures have permadeath

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

Well this is quite unusual. You've played monster catching games before but not like this. Familiars.io put a fresh spin on it all and it's quite ingenious.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin launching along with Linux support this Summer, third update out now

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is a dark fantasy-horror FPS powered by the original Quake engine from publishers 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment and developer KillPixel Games.

Rocket Shipment is a slick homage to Thrust and Crazy Gravity now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

Rocket Shipment is a tricky, physics based, space delivery game. The game is a love letter to the old style lander games like Thrust, Solar Jetman and Crazy Gravity.

Valve's Source 2 shows early teasers of Ray Tracing - weirdly in Artifact updates

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

We know that Source 2 from Valve is a pretty capable game engine, and we've seen what they've been able to do with it over the years (and Half-Life: Alyx turned it up a notch) but what's next? Ray Tracing perhaps.

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