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art of rally looks terrific in the latest trailer and it will be on GOG too

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

Bright colours, stylish low-poly graphics and a whole lot of speed is what's coming our way with art of rally. From the same developer behind Absolute Drift and it's coming to Linux this year.

Time matters in the tactical RPG 'The Iron Oath' and it looks very promising

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

The Iron Oath is an upcoming turn-based tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world, one where your choices matter because as you progress time flows and affects everyone including your characters.

Have some physics fun with Poly Bridge 2, now released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

After a short delay, Poly Bridge 2 from Dry Cactus has now released for Linux so you can begin building bridges and playing with the fun physics system.

Theme park builder 'Parkitect' now uses the Vulkan API on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

Parkitect, one of the most magnificent games from 2018 had one of it's usual monthly updates but it turns out for Linux it was more than just some bug fixing.

Chip designer Jim Keller has resigned from Intel

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

Jim Keller, something of a legend when it comes to chip design has formally resigned from Intel over 'personal reasons'.

Defold Foundation awarded a grant to bring support of Web Monetization

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

The Defold Foundation recently announced another partnership, as they've secured a grant from Grant for the Web to bring in support for the Web Monetization API.

It seems Coreboot and Open Firmware will come to System76's NVIDIA laptops

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

Back in April, System76 released the Lemur Pro laptop and one of the highlights was that it pulled in a lot more open source. It seems those clever engineers aren't stopping there.

Stadia gets resolution options per-device, discount for everyone and more Android

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

Stadia might not be reaching the heights that Google initially promised but they continue to tweak their game streaming service. Some big updates are now available.

Whateverland: Prologue mixes a point & click adventure with turn-based strategy

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

There seems to be a lot of unique genre blending going on lately. Whateverland: Prologue, the intro / demo to a much bigger game blends a point and click adventure with a 'turn-based strategy sports simulator'.

The Humble Codemasters Bundle 2020 is now live

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

Here's an interesting game bundle for racing game enthusiasts. The Humble Codemasters Bundle 2020 is now live with a number of good games.

Valve adds OpenXR support to SteamVR in 'Developer Preview'

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

This is quite exciting for the future of Virtual Reality, as Valve as now properly given their backing to the OpenXR standard and added support into SteamVR.

System76 announce their 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen powered Serval WS laptop

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

Users have been pestering Linux hardware vendor and Pop!_OS distribution maker System76 for some time to make an AMD powered laptop, they listened and they've announced the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen powered Serval WS.

Hyperspace Harvest has farming, bullet-hell and more inside an interstellar animal

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

Not a selection of genres I would have expected to be put together but it's happened. Hyperspace Harvest is the second game from Sleeper Games and it's confirmed for Linux.

The itch.io charity bundle hits over $4 million and now over 1,500 items inside

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

Well on it's way to raising 5 million dollars, the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality over on itch.io has become a huge success and there's a lot that's been added to it.

Monster Crown enters Early Access July 31 playable at Steam Game Festival

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jun 2020

Studio Aurum and SOEDESCO have announced that the dark monster taming game inspired by Pokemon, Monster Crown, will be launching in Early Access on July 31.