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You can now play the machine generated AI Dungeon 2 in your browser easily

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

Recently we wrote about AI Dungeon 2, a text adventure game that has endless possibilities thanks to the fancy machine learning AI brain behind it and it's now seriously easy to play.

Another progress report is up for RPCS3, the PlayStation 3 Emulator

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

The volunteers behind the status updates of the PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 have a new report available, with RPCS3 now up to 1,431 titles playable which is amazing.

Co-op first-person RPG 'Barony' has a big update plus Legends & Pariahs DLC release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

Up for some co-op first-person exploration? Barony is a good choice and just recently a big update and DLC went live.

GB Studio, a free and open source retro adventure game creator

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

Want to create your own seriously retro games? The free and open source GB Studio can certainly help you to do that.

Classic free and open source platform battler 'Teeworlds' has a major new release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

How about a little classic platform battling this holiday season? Teeworlds has a brand new release available.

Wine 5.0 has a third Release Candidate with a bunch of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

A third tasty Release Candidate is out as the Wine team hack their way towards a huge new stable release with Wine 5.0 due next year.

Futuristic racer mixed with a little combat 'GRAL' arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Three Souls Interactive emailed in to let everyone know that GRAL, their future racer is now officially available for Linux gamers.

Free and open source transport sim OpenTTD has a second Beta towards a big new version

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

OpenTTD is a true classic, building upon what Transport Tycoon Deluxe started and expanding it across more platforms and keeping it alive many years later.

GOG have new games up on GOG Connect, big sale still going

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

More titles have recently appeared on GOG Connect, giving you the ability to grab an extra DRM-free copy on GOG if you already have them on Steam.

The Legacy Update is live for Dead Cells, allowing you to play old versions plus saves get backups

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Much like what Hinterland did with The Long Dark's Time Capsule, you can now try out older versions of Dead Cells at any time if you dislike changes made over time.

Laminar Research readying Vulkan support for an upcoming public beta with X-Plane 11.50

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Release the Vulkans! Laminar Research are pushing forwards with their plan to upgrade X-Plane 11 with Vulkan support.

Survival RPG 'Dead Age 2' coming to Linux in early 2020

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Silent Dreams are working on a sequel to their 2016 survival RPG with Dead Age 2 coming to Linux early next year, with publishing once again from Headup Games.

If you have an old NVIDIA 8 or 9 series GPU, there's a new Linux driver update out for you

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

While naturally a lot of the focus for a GPU vendor is on their latest and greatest, NVIDIA do still support many of their older GPUs on Linux.

Xen now out of Beta in Black Mesa, time to relive Half-Life plus a roadmap is up

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Shortly after drastically improving the performance in the Linux version, Crowbar Collective actually released the Xen chapter of Black Mesa out to everyone.

Minigalaxy, a new open source simple GOG client for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Find getting your Linux games from GOG a bit of a hassle since they don't support Galaxy on Linux yet? Enter the free and open source application Minigalaxy.

The new Shotgun Farmers limited time Hide & Freeze game mode is hilarious

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

The incredibly unique shooter Shotgun Farmers has a really amusing limited-time event going on, with a Hide & Freeze game mode now live.

Erannorth Reborn, a 'hardcore' deck-builder with tons of customization is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

Spyridon Thalassinos has confirmed that Erannorth Reborn, their positively rated deck-builder is on the way to Linux.

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, the classic open source RTS has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

After being made open source back in 2009, the absolute classic Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries lives on and another release is out now.

The latest Black Mesa update makes it much smoother on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

With Crowbar Collective enabling a Beta containing the full Black Mesa experience recently, it came with a major performance problem on Linux which now seems to be solved!