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Amusing adventure game HIVESWAP: ACT 2 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
With no prior knowledge of the Homestuck web comic series needed, the second part of the video game adventure is out now with HIVESWAP: ACT 2.

Theme park building game Parkitect is getting 8-player online multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
With the second year release anniversary of the great theme park building game Parkitect coming up, Texel Raptor had a quite a huge surprise ready.

A pirate quartermaster is a very quirky game about pirate life - Linux version now up

By Liam Dawe,
A pirate quartermaster from developer Ivan Armandy released back in October, and now it's available and supported directly on Linux too.

Bit - Animation Editor is now supported on Linux and it looks seriously slick

By Liam Dawe,
Bit - Animation Editor is a very interesting tool to help people compose and design animated pixel art. Created by the two-person Swedish indie game studio Morgondag.

Chaotic track-building co-op game Unrailed! gets PC cross-play with the Switch

By Liam Dawe,
Have a friend or two that mainly play on the Nintendo Switch? Here's a good choice that you can now play with them with cross-play supported across Linux, macOS, Windows and now the Switch too.

Kerbal Space Program 1.11 will let you fix up your craft during a spacewalk

By Liam Dawe,
Kerbal Space Program 1.11: Some Reassembly Required will be arriving later this Winter, with it some major new features and it sounds super exciting.

The fab strategy sim Mini Metro now has full Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe,
After recently expanding the game with a free update with Nigeria and Chile, Dinosaur Polo Club have given users another reason to come back to their excellent strategy sim.

Valve updates the Steam Linux Container Runtime for Proton 5.13, helps tools like MangoHud

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Play Proton 5.13 compatibility tool being a major upgrade, along with it now using the Steam Linux Container Runtime, it did come with some annoying issues that they're now trying to solve.

Steam Autumn Sale and the 2020 Steam Award Nominations are now live

By Liam Dawe,
Get your wallets ready and your votes as two big events are happening and live now on Steam with both the Steam Autumn Sale and the 2020 Steam Award Nominations.

Metro Exodus is still planned to release for Linux and macOS

By Liam Dawe,
4A Games have confirmed in an official 10th anniversary update post today that Metro Exodus is still going to release for Linux and macOS as well.

Re-live the experience of Half-Life with Black Mesa: Definitive Edition out now

By Liam Dawe,
Black Mesa: Definitive Edition is the final big update to the re-imagined fan-made Half-Life game, and it's looking pretty awesome. Easily the best way to experience the first part of Half-Life.

340 or so days later and I am still lost in The Longing

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the unique mix of point and click adventuring with an idle game in The Longing? It's supposed to have taken people 400 days to finish.

SteamOS-like couch gaming Linux distribution GamerOS expands with a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Need an up to date Linux distribution for your living room big screen experience? GamerOS can fill that gap for you while Valve sit on SteamOS. Also, come check out the talk on it from the 2020 Arch Linux Conf.

Tristam Island is a Infocom-inspired text adventure available on over 30 platforms

By Liam Dawe,
Okay, now this is quite impressive. Tristam Island is a text adventure designed like old Infocom works and it's playable across more platforms than you might expect.

NVIDIA plan to support Linux with GeForce NOW using Chrome

By Liam Dawe,
For a while now you've been able to stream games using NVIDIA GeForce NOW in your browser, however it looks like NVIDIA will be making that a bit more official for Linux.

Jedi: Fallen Order arrives on Stadia, six new free games for Stadia Pro for December

By Liam Dawe,
Google continues to boost their game selection with many fan favourites continuing to arrive on their Stadia game streaming service. They also have big plans.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Build your own ruler in the massive Crusader Kings III update out now

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox has released the big 1.2 update to Crusader Kings III, with it comes a fun new feature that lets you properly design your initial ruler.

Deep survival game Vintage Story has my full attention with the latest expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story has a huge new version almost ready to release, with a couple of Release Candidates going up for the 1.14 release and it's looking awesome.

Vulkan for the Raspberry Pi 4 with V3DV is now conformant and official

By Liam Dawe,
Great news for the Vulkan API and for fans of the Raspberry Pi 4, as the upcoming V3DV that will be part of the next Mesa release is now an official conforming driver.