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FEX-Emu is a promising project for gaming on 64bit Arm

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Want to play more games on Arm devices? Projects like Box86 and Box64 do already exist but is there a better option? FEX-Emu sounds like it's going to be another great open source way to do what you want.

RPG game engine Flare gets improved gamepad support, fonts and more in v1.13

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Flare is a free and open source game engine for creating RPGs, plus it also has its own Empyrean Campaign to play through and it continued to get enhanced to be a bit more modern.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux gets some more fixes

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Readying up for the onslaught of users on the Steam Deck who will probably want to play some of their Epic Store loot, the free and open source Heroic Games Launcher has a new bug fix release up.

Linux Kernel getting prepped for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

While it's already known that the Steam Deck will ship with Valve's own SteamOS 3 based on Arch Linux, what about running more standard Linux distributions? It will get easier in a future version of the Linux Kernel.

KDE Plasma continues improving to stop you breaking things

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2022

Developer Nate Graham has highlighted more recent work for the KDE Plasma desktop environment (the one the Steam Deck will come with) and it's all sounding great.

Get some quality games and help charity in the F*CK CANCER Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2022

Get some top quality games, while also helping a charity doing good work in the Humble F*CK CANCER Bundle.

Stadia continues the slow downward spiral

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2022

A new report from Business Insider has highlighted some continuing changes for Google's cloud gaming service Stadia, and it doesn't exactly sound good - but it's also something that was mostly already announced.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is out and works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

Dying Light 2 will be easily one of the biggest releases this year and the good news is that it works on Linux without any messing around.

Free and open source space sim Pioneer gets a big UI upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

Pioneer started off life as a basic spiritual successor to Frontier: Elite II and nowadays it continues being upgraded, to give fans of classic 3D space exploration something fun.

Wadjet Eye Games brings over Resonance to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

What's that? Yet another classic Wadjet Eye Games published point and click adventure is fully upgraded with a new Linux port? Yep! Say hello to Resonance from developer XII Games.

Check out the Fanatical Safe in Our World charity bundle

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

Fanatical has teamed up with Safe in Our World to offer a bundle of games for you, while also supporting important charity work to help destigmatize mental health within the games industry and for players too.

Over 120 titles are now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

We're now just three weeks away from the official release date of the Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming machine. The good news is that Verified titles have been growing nicely!

The Hand of Merlin RPG coming to Linux officially, sometime March onwards

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2022

The developers of The Hand of Merlin, a turn-based rogue-lite RPG in which Arthurian legend meets with sci-fi horror, have confirmed their plans for the full release.

Steam gets a few useful UI tweaks to show Cloud Sync status and Game Install Size

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2022

Ahead of the Steam Deck release, it seems the desktop client for Steam is getting a few handy UI changes too.

New Unity developer needed for Inscryption, work may include a Linux port

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2022

Do you have experience with the Unity game engine? Well, Daniel Mullins Games are hiring to continue future development of Inscryption and the job description looked pretty interesting.

Pop!_OS Linux gets better game performance and desktop responsiveness

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2022

System76 have done something very interesting with Pop!_OS lately, a change that should give you better performance in games and get a more responsive desktop overall on Linux.

Valheim getting Steam Deck tweaks, more new content teased

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2022

Valheim, absolutely one of the best games available natively for Linux is going to get some upgrades for the Steam Deck. Oh, there's also some teased new content so that's cool too.

Cyberpunk adventure Technobabylon gets a modern native Linux build

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2022

Wadjet Eye Games and Technocrat Games have returned with a fresh upgrade of Technobabylon, a 2015 cyberpunk adventure.

If you still don't own Stellaris it's currently free with Amazon Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2022

Quick tip - GOG and Amazon Prime Gaming have teamed up to give subscribers an offer they can't refuse - another free game! Get a copy of Stellaris from Paradox Interactive / Paradox Development Studios.