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System76 laptops are on sale, plus they will donate to select open source projects from sales until Jan 3rd

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

After recently releasing their own in-house designed Thelio desktop system, System76 have announced they're giving away some funding to open source projects from laptop sales.

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WW1 FPS Tannenberg to leave Early Access in February next year, new UI now live

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

The WW1 FPS Tannenberg is going to officially leave Early Access on February 13th next year. After being in Early Access for around a year, it's been through quite a lot of improvements.

CHANGE, a homeless survival game is in Early Access with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

One I'm surprised I missed, CHANGE from developer Delve Interactive (PONCHO) is a survival game where you're homeless in a randomly generated city.

GOG and Steam are both running a Polish celebration sale

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

To celebrate Poland's independence, both GOG and Steam are running a special sale with some good Linux games going cheap.

Lucah: Born of a Dream is a pretty wild action-RPG with a very unique art style now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

One I missed from early last month, the action-RPG Lucah: Born of a Dream added a Linux version not long after the initial release. The art style is really crazy.

Can you stop a magical hyper-breeding horde of Rabbits? Fluffy Horde is out now

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

Mixing a tower defense game with real-time strategy, Fluffy Horde offers a rather amusing experience.

You can now make some truly ridiculous boats in Make Sail, with a new creative mode

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

Make Sail from developer Popcannibal is a reasonably promising game about building boats and attempting not to sink. The latest update is out and adds in a creative mode.

Out of Space, a co-op multiplayer game about trying to live together in space will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

One I spotted recently, Behold Studios (Galaxy of Pen & Paper, Knights of Pen and Paper) are working on a new game called Out of Space and it sounds interesting enough.

Theme park builder 'Parkitect' had another nice beta update recently

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2018

For those of you with a creative side that fancy building a theme park, Parkitect is a good option. It's currently in Early Access and progress is great.

Unreal Engine 4.21 is out, now defaults to the Vulkan API on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2018

Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.21 and it includes some interesting stuff on the Linux side of things.

Surviving Mars: Space Race expansion to blast off on November 15th

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2018

Get ready to blast off towards the red planet once again, as the Surviving Mars: Space Race expansion is set to release on November 15th.

Galaxy of Pen & Paper has a free +1 edition update, which adds official Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2018

After waiting since last summer, Behold Studios have now managed to add official Linux support to Galaxy of Pen & Paper along with the +1 edition free update.