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


By Liam Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
For a while you've been able to use 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 Squires-Hand
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


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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.

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


By Liam Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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 Squires-Hand
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.

Amnesia: Rebirth is easily one of the scariest and best games of 2020


By Liam Squires-Hand
After a rough launch, Frictional Games have nicely fixed up Amnesia: Rebirth and overall the experience is one we're not going to forget any time soon.

The Internet Archive are keeping Flash creations alive with the open source Ruffle


By Liam Squires-Hand
Like many of you, I have certain fond memories of playing various Flash games many years ago. There's obviously many better ways to do web games now and Adobe are killing Flash in December.

Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator from IPACS is now available on Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Need to take to the skies? We can possibly help with that. Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator from IPACS recently quitely released a Linux version.

Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver


By Liam Squires-Hand
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has announced that they're now being funded by Valve, so Blumenkrantz's work on the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' will continue.

You can now try the RetroArch Playtest on Steam for Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
With the awesome RetroArch application for running emulators and all sorts coming to Steam, they now have a Playtest available you can opt into to try it out.

A chat with Trese Brothers Games about the upcoming cyberpunk Cyber Knights: Flashpoint


By Liam Squires-Hand
We have a chat with Trese Brothers Games who are currently developing Cyber Knights: Flashpoint following a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in March 2020.

Vulkan Ray Tracing becomes official with Vulkan 1.2.162 (updated)


By Liam Squires-Hand
The day has arrived, along with the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 being tagged in the Vulkan-Docs repository on GitHub the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now officially released.

The upcoming metroidvania RPG 'Heart Forth, Alicia' is looking gorgeous


By Liam Squires-Hand
Here's a game I haven't heard of for a few years. Heart Forth, Alicia is an upcoming modern Metroidvania RPG, filled with devious monsters, lethal dungeons, creative puzzles, lively towns & many uncharted wonders.