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Surviving Mars gets a needed hotfix clearing up Below and Beyond

By Liam Dawe,
Below and Beyond released recently as the new expansion for Surviving Mars now that Paradox Interactive has decided to pick up development again but it has been problematic.

Ahead of Hearth & Home for Valheim, the developer has a longer fireside chat

By Liam Dawe,
Want to listen to the team from Iron Gate talk about Valheim and the upcoming Hearth & Home update that's due out on September 16? Sit a while and drink some mead.

xrdesktop for turning your desktop into a VR space had a productive Summer

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora has given an update on the working going into xrdesktop, the free and open source project that turns your desktop into a VR space and allows you to layer windows on top of others.

Steam has turned 18 years old and PC gaming has never been the same since

By Liam Dawe,
It's truly hard to imagine just how much Valve managed to change what PC gaming is thanks to Steam. On September 12, the Steam client celebrated 18 years.

Wild time-looping adventure Kraken Academy!! is out now

By Liam Dawe,
A high school like no other with ghosts, cultists, crocodiles and something about a magical kraken that can manipulate time. Kraken Academy!! sounds nuts and it's out now.

Classic 1997 adventure Voodoo Kid gets a Linux release with Boxedwine

By Liam Dawe,
Originally published by Infogrames back in 1997, Voodoo Kid is a classic 1997 point and click adventure which recently saw a re-release earlier in April 2021 and now it's on Linux too.

Version 0.11 is out for Veloren, a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

By Liam Dawe,
Veloren continues to impress as an upcoming in-development free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust.

Psychological horror detective adventure Saint Kotar to release on October 28

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from a successful Kickstarter campaign and Red Martyr Entertainment teaming up with publisher SOEDESCO, their psychological horror detective Saint Kotar is set to release on October 28.

Wine development release 6.17 is out with continued work for the GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe,
Here we are again time to stop and re-wine. Another development release of the Wine compatibility layer has become available with Wine 6.17 having the bottle popped open today.

A new survivor has appeared in the latest Don't Starve Together update

By Liam Dawe,
Don't Starve Together has a new face roaming the lands. In the latest major update to the popular survival game, Klei has introduced us to Wanda with a new fancy animated short.

Input mapping tool AntiMicroX 3.1.7 is out with improved Wayland support

By Liam Dawe,
AntiMicroX (a continuation of AntiMicro) for mapping gamepad keys to keyboard, mouse, scripts and macros has a new release out with version 3.1.7.

Tux and Fanny is the most completely bizarre adventure and it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Ever heard of Tux and Fanny? It's originally an incredibly strange 2019 animated film by Albert Birney who has teamed up with Ghost Time Games (Jettomero, Test Tube Titans) to make an adventure game out of it.

Open source in games: How to save your studio time and effort

By Liam Dawe,
At the Game Developers Conference 2021, multiple developers from Red Hat attended and gave a talk titled "Open source in games: How to save your studio time and effort".

PS4 emulator Spine gets a new demo release

By Liam Dawe,
Spine is an upcoming PlayStation 4 emulator that's currently closed-source while it's under heavy development. It's also currently only available for Linux.

Valve rolls out big Steam client update with new Downloads Page & Storage Management

By Liam Dawe,
After being in Beta since the end of July, Valve has now released a big update to the stable version of the Steam client for everyone which has the new Downloads Page & Storage Management.

Explore a strange and ancient world in the survival-platformer Residual out now

By Liam Dawe,
Residual from developer OrangePixel and publisher Apogee Entertainment is a "new breed" of survival platformer. It's out today with full Linux support.

AMD shows off their new CPU frequency control mechanism for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Currently limited to Zen 3, AMD has revealed their work on a brand new CPU frequency control mechanism "amd-pstate".

Stellaris to get the free 3.1 'Lem' update on September 14

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive announced today that the free 3.1 Lem update for Stellaris is going to release on September 14.

Brutal Orchestra has a fantastic trailer, plus the game sounds both brutal and intriguing

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from the same designer behind Swallow the Sea and Perfect Vermin, two fantastically weird games we have their biggest yet with Brutal Orchestra and it's a little on the dark side once again.

The short and somewhat disturbing Swallow the Sea is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Short on time and want to play a game? Swallow the Sea is a good choice and it's free so you've got nothing to lose for trying to except perhaps a little of your sanity.