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There's now over 6,000 Linux games on Steam plus thousands more playable with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Seven years ago, Valve officially released the Steam client for the Linux desktop and since then the amount of games playable on Linux has continued rising. Thanks to Steam Play Proton, that's grown drastically too.

AMD announces the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X budget processors and a new B550 chipset

By Liam Dawe,
On a budget? Good news for you, as AMD are expanding their third-gen Ryzen processor list with the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X.

Unique and stylish looking survival adventure 'Help Will Come Tomorrow' released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Help Will Come Tomorrow, a crowdfunded game developed by Arclight Creations, that takes place around the Russian October Revolution is out now.

Paradox are giving away Cities: Skylines - Parklife DLC free until April 26

By Liam Dawe,
Cities: Skylines is pretty much the gold standard of city building on any platforms and it has some good expansions too. One of which, Cities: Skylines - Parklife, can be picked up free.

Serfs is a new in-development medieval RTS that looks promising, it just added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development, Serfs, a medieval styled real-time strategy game that feels quite like a city-builder with warfare now has Linux support.

FOSS Ultima 7 game engine 'Exult' has a new big stable update after 16 years

By Liam Dawe,
Ultima 7, what a classic. Released originally back in 1992 it continues to live on thanks to open source. Exult is a FOSS game engine for it and it finally has a fresh release.

Valve details more changes for Artifact 2.0, with expanded single-player content coming

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to revamp Artifact behind the scenes for the upcoming re-release with Artifact 2.0 and they've discussed more changes that will come for their Dota themed card game.

Epicinium - a strategy game where nature is a finite resource, to release free and going open source

By Liam Dawe,
Epicinium is a name I've not heard in some time. After a failed Kickstarter in 2018, they're back with their strategy game and the team at A Bunch of Hacks have a new plan for it which includes open source.

With tons of weapons and turn-based combat that feels real-time 'Fractalis' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your morning dose of pixel art with Fractalis, a new roguelike that's just entered Early Access with some smooth turn-based combat that feels almost real-time.

Minigalaxy, the FOSS Linux client for GOG adds support for Wine

By Liam Dawe,
While GOG don't support their own Galaxy client on Linux (yet?), work continues by the community on Minigalaxy, a streamlined free and open source Linux client for GOG.

Build up your collection of Paradox DLC with the latest build your own Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Well, this is a little different. Humble Bundle have teamed up with Paradox Interactive to allow you to build your own bundle of DLC for their games.

Into the Breach from Subset Games (FTL) now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Into the Breach, the second title from Subset Games (previously the excellent FTL), has today gained an official Linux build.

Half-Life remake 'Black Mesa' has a post-release hotfix with a little Linux fix included

By Liam Dawe,
Black Mesa, the re-imaging of the original Half-Life released out of Early Access recently after a long development period and it's quite brilliant. Crowbar Collective have now release the first proper post-release hotfix.

Award winning mobile game 'The Battle of Polytopia' is getting an updated release for PC

By Liam Dawe,
The Battle of Polytopia, a very successful and award winning turn based strategy game is confirmed to be coming to PC and it will have Linux support.

Exploration, mining and crafting RPG 'Aground' has left Early Access to reach for the stars

By Liam Dawe,
Aground from Fancy Fish Games / SnöBox Studio and publisher Whitethorn Digital, a crafting RPG that steadily grows more complex has left Early Access.

OpenRA has a new test release, plus the OpenRA powered RTS 'Fractured Realms' has a pre-release

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the free and open source real-time strategy game engine for playing classic Westwood games has a new testing release up. Additionally, Fractured Realms, a game powered by OpenRA tech has a pre-release.

ATOM RPG Trudograd entering Early Access in May - Linux version to come shortly after

By Liam Dawe,
ATOM RPG Trudograd is a standalone sequel to the successfully crowdfunded (and since released) ATOM RPG. While you don't need to have played the first, they are suggesting you do.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe,
Time to get building a massive theme park, as OpenRCT2 for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems with an enhanced feature-set has a new release up.

Manjaro needs testers for the upcoming Manjaro GNOME 20.0 release - Snap and Flatpak support OOTB

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro Linux is getting ready for their major release, and they're looking for your help to make sure the GNOME edition for Manjaro GNOME 20.0 is as smooth as possible.

Direct 3D to Vulkan layer 'DXVK' 1.6.1 release out with plenty of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK when paired up with Wine (and integrated in Steam Play Proton) translates Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan enabling better performance on Linux for a lot of Windows games. Today, a brand new release went up.