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Your monthly catch-up post is here for November 2021

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Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for November 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news.

As GOG struggles, Steam hit a new high of 27M people online

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Recently we had news that DRM-free store GOG has been struggling with losses, and here's Steam continuing to just smash through previous records.

Caves & Cliffs: Part II has arrived for Minecraft

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Caves & Cliffs: Part II is out now for Minecraft, bringing with it some huge changes to the world generation to make the exploration much more interesting.

Ubisoft suggest posting on their forum for Proton support in Rainbow Six Siege

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Now that getting games that use BattlEye for anti-cheat working on Linux (either native or through Proton) is easier, an Ubisoft rep suggests people post in their forum to show demand for it.

KDE developer suggests Plasma needs to be simpler by default

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KDE developer Nate Graham, the same person who recently said they may become the "Windows or Android" of the FOSS world is back again with more thoughts - this time about keeping it simple.

GOverlay for editing MangoHud gets a new Steam Deck friendly UI

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GOverlay is an application that helps to manage Linux gaming tools like the MangoHud performance overlay, the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt and the video capture tool ReplaySorcery.

GOG to go through some reorganization after suffering losses

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While Steam continues to do well with it being the most popular games store, it seems CD PROJEKT Group's store GOG is really starting to struggle.

Party-based RPG Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness sees a huge update

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After entering Early Access in August, and then releasing a Linux native version in October, Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness just got a nice big upgrade for all players.

Valve puts up official developer FAQ for the Steam Deck

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With the Steamworks Virtual Conference: Steam Deck over now, Valve has put up their own official set of answers to various common questions.

Scientific evolution sim Thrive is now available on itch.io and Steam

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Thrive is a free and open source evolution sim, that is now available from the itch.io and Steam stores where you can pay to support the development.

Capcom shows off official video of Devil May Cry 5 on the Steam Deck

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As more developers get their hands on a Steam Deck devkit, we're seeing plenty more show their games and now Capcom has taken a turn with Devil May Cry 5.

Open source re-implementation of Caesar III, Augustus v3.1 is out

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Augustus is an open source game engine re-implementation for Caesar III, forked from another called Julius that aims to add in new features.

X4: Tides of Avarice expansion coming early 2022, plus AMD FSR

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Egosoft are expanding their big space sim again with the X4: Tides of Avarice expansion announcement for 2022.

Canonical want your feedback on Ubuntu Gaming

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Looks like Canonical, the creator of Ubuntu, want to get in on more Linux Gaming with their Desktop Product Manager starting a new series of blog posts and your feedback is needed.

Creator Day is live on itch.io giving 100% to developers

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The anti-Black Friday event is live once again on the itch.io store, where developers get 100% of purchases as itch forgoes its cut for a day.

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

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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.

Real-time explosive tower defense arrives in Sky Fleet on December 17

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Build up an army and speed around the skies in your air ship in Sky Fleet, the action-based tower defense game arriving on Steam on December 17.

Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle adds Linux support in the new update

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Along with a major upgrade to the base game, Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One now has native Linux support.

Valheim gets a new patch, plus teasers for Mistlands and Caves

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Iron Gate are showing off more of what's to come with the next major upgrade for Valheim, along with a small content patch.

Godot Engine gets AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

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The free and open source Godot Engine recently had support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution merged into the code, ready for the next big release.