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Take-Two Interactive hit the DMCA nuke on GTA III and Vice City reverse engineered effort


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It was only recently that we picked up the news of both GTA III and Vice City getting a fully working reverse engineered game engine, along with plenty of upgrades. Sadly, and expectedly, it got nuked from orbit.

Linux Mint want to remind you to run updates


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In a fresh blog post, Linux Mint's leader Clem Lefebvre has written about some statistics on people running out of date software and warned people to ensure they're running updates.

Linux lands on Mars with Perseverance and Ingenuity


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Here is your morning dose of miscellaneous Linux news. Not gaming but still very cool - Linux has officially landed on Mars with the Perseverance Rover.

Open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 24 is out now with plenty of new features


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After a few years of waiting, Wildfire Games have released a big upgrade for the free and open source real-time strategy game 0 A.D. with Alpha 24 now available.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation lib VKD3D-Proton 2.2 is out, prepares DirectX Raytracing


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We just recently had the DXVK 1.8 release for Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan and now we also have the VKD3D-Proton 2.2 release landing as well.

Collabora share big progress on the Wine compatibility layer with Wayland


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Collabora have shared a great progress update on getting Wine working directly with Wayland, which is going to eventually replace X11 on most Linux distributions.

There's no stopping the Viking invasion as Valheim hits 3 million sales


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Valheim has truly become an absolute runaway hit. A survival game about Vikings running around in co-op chopping down trees and facing off against big bosses.

Crusader Kings II gets a monthly subscription for all the DLC


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Paradox Interactive are branching out with revenue models and they're now doing a subscription for Crusader Kings II, which itself is free to play.

It's officially game over for Rochard with studio Recoil Games shutting


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Recoil Games appear to have filed for bankruptcy a while ago and sadly a casualty of that is their game Rochard, which has now been removed for sale.

Portal 2 from Valve gets a big update with Vulkan support from DXVK


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Portal 2, the classic first-person puzzle game from Valve available on Steam, just had a huge upgrade come out of nowhere along with Vulkan API support powered by the DXVK project.

D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.8 is out now


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Usually used for Wine and Steam Play Proton, the translation DXVK layer that moves Direct3D 9, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 to Vulkan has a new release available with DXVK 1.8.

Mutropolis is a sci-fi adventure where you revisit Earth in the year 5000


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Set in the year 5000 when we're all living on Mars after some kind of great disaster on Earth, it's time to go back and discover what's still left.

Learning Factory is like Factorio with lots of cats and plenty of automation


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Combining the ideas found in Machine Learning with automation and Factorio styled conveyor belts everywhere, Learning Factory from Luden.io has entered Early Access.

Open-world, turn-based RPG 'Relic Space' gets a trailer and release window


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Love turn-based tactical battles in space? Well the upcoming Relic Space is showing a huge amount of promise and it will be entering Early Access later this year.

Dungeon crawler Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos is out in Early Access


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Ready for another game that makes you stay up all night for one more run? Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos is now out in Early Access on the Steam store.

Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin free upgrade out now with a Boss Rush Mode


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Blasphemous has another free expansion out now with Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin, pulling in Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night along with more free content.

CrossCode: A New Home expansion announced for February 26


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CrossCode, the retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future is set to get an expansion with CrossCode: A New Home confirmed to be releasing on February 26.

NVIDIA continues tweaking their work for hardware accelerated Xwayland support


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Back in January we reported on how NVIDIA was looking to support hardware accelerated GL and Vulkan rendering with Xwayland, and it seems it's continuing to progress.

Pharaoh-like isometric city builder Nebuchadnezzar is out now


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Nebuchadnezzar is an isometric city builder styled like classic Impressions Games titles like Pharaoh and Zeus and it's out now across both GOG and Steam.

Closed Hands is an upcoming interactive fiction examining extremism and radicalisation


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Set to release with Linux support in March, Closed Hands from developer Passenger Games led by Dan Hett, is an experimental and political video game that explores the complex effects of extremism on a range of cultures and communities.