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Single-player arena-styled FPS Cathedral 3-D arrives on Linux

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With the latest update to the single-player arena-styled first-person shooter Cathedral 3-D has now been released officially for Linux.

GameMaker Studio 2 update released to bring forth the Ubuntu Linux editor Beta

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Back in early August we wrote about how YoYo Games were introducing the GameMaker Studio 2 editor for Linux, well as of the latest official update the Beta is actually out.

Total War: WARHAMMER III delayed for all platforms until 2022

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Creative Assembly announced today that Total War: WARHAMMER III has been moved from late 2021 until sometime in early 2022.

Surviving Mars gets a needed hotfix clearing up Below and Beyond

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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