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Silly spy agency sim Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is now out with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

Developer Daylight Studios continue their Linux support with their latest title, a silly spy agency sim Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!

Valve adds the new Steam Chat into Big Picture Mode

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

It's taken Valve a while to get there but they've new added the new Steam Chat into Steam's Big Picture Mode.

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The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is out, impressive stuff

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

RPCS3, the open source PlayStation 3 emulator is coming along nicely. The latest progress report goes over some recent work with various improvements.

The rather good top-down shooter Tesla vs Lovecraft is getting a 'For Science' DLC pack

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

The For Science DLC pack for the manic top-down shooter Tesla vs Lovecraft sounds like it's going to be rather fun.

Richard Garfield on 'Upkeep Kills' in Valve's card battler Artifact

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

Keeping the hype train for Valve's new card battler, Richard Garfield has another blog post and video out. This time, covering what they call Upkeep Kills.

Stealth and hacking game 'OFF GRID' fully funded and heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2018

OFF GRID, a stealth and hacking game about privacy and mass surveillance managed to get funded on Kickstarter and so it's coming to Linux.

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.