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Grand strategy empire builder 'Arcane Fortune' has a new release and it went open source

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

Arcane Fortune is a game we briefly highlighted at the start of August as one that is inspired by the likes of Civilization, SimCity and Dwarf Fortress and it's getting bigger again.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

Dead By Daylight with cross-play releases free for Stadia Pro on October 1 - plus more

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

Another fresh set of games have been announced as either newly coming to Stadia or being added to Stadia Pro. One of the exciting titles is Dead By Daylight with full cross-play.

Since release Crusader Kings III has seen over 18 million murders - huge patch out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

The latest grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios with Crusader Kings III seems to have been a big success and a new rather large patch is out.

Songs of Syx appears to be an early success brewing on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

After releasing into Early Access on Steam on September 21, 2020 - it appears that the grand strategy city-builder Songs of Syx is seeing some early success.

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing gets a major upgrade with new Unity game engine and Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing, a popular drone racer that's enjoyed by many users on Steam just recently had a massive free upgrade released.

Lenovo announce the sleek ThinkPad X1 Nano that ships with Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X1 Nano, a new premium laptop offering which like the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is one of the first to get Intel EVO branding - meaning it's really top stuff.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

The latest and greatest in open source graphics drivers has released with Mesa 20.2.0, although you should wait on it if you're after a stable experience.

Atari VCS backers on IndieGoGo might actually get their units soon

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

I almost can't believe it. The retro console Atari VCS might actually be shipping soon, as their initial production run sounds like it went well.

3D adventure KAPIA sees a young girl and her grandfather try to save the world

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

What could be a sweet tale of family and saving the world, KAPIA is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter with Linux support planned if they hit a stretch-goal.

Dell announce new XPS 13 laptop models, will support moving from Windows to Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

Dell is a company we don't often cover here, however we're now on their press lists and they sent over something quite interesting today with their new XPS 13 laptop models which come with the latest 11th Gen Intel Core processors. (ARTICLE UPDATED)

Check out some open world gameplay from the upcoming Cassette Beasts

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

Cassette Beasts is the in-development title from Bytten Studio (previously Lenna's Inception), which is an open-world monster capture / transformation RPG inspired by Pokemon Fusion.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

OpenRCT2 is the free and open source game engine reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, adding in many advanced featured and cross-platform support.

With an incredible neon style, Vecter is an infinite racing-shooter that is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

Vecter from developer Taranasus is a free infinite racing game all about lasting as long as possible and destroying anything in your way. After launching into Early Access in November 2019, it's now officially on Linux too.

Funded and on the way to Linux, Dwerve mixes Tower Defence with dungeon crawling

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

After a slick limited-time demo and a Kickstarter campaign, the dungeon crawling / tower defence hybrid Dwerve has now managed to complete the campaign and get fully funded.

Play more classics including one from 1976 with a new ScummVM release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

ScummVM, the awesome all-in-one solution for playing tons of classic adventure and RPGs has a brand new release available which expands the games supported.

Warzone 2100 to get a graphics boost with Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 continues advancing, with a big graphics rendering overhaul recently merged in ready for the next release.

Graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' to gain Vulkan support in the 2.3 release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

As another win for both open standards and modern graphics APIs, the classic and continually improving open source graphics rendering engine OGRE will get Vulkan support in the upcoming 2.3 release.