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Verdun, the WWI FPS has added the Scottish in a free update

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The Verdun developers have continued their work to add to the interesting WWI FPS and today the Scottish folk make their entry into the game.

Inexor, a fully open source fork of the FPS game Sauerbraten

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It seems some developers got fed-up with some assets of the FPS game Sauerbraten being restricted, so they have forked it into the Inexor project.

Lugaru campaign now fully playable in Overgrowth, Lugaru HD now fully open source including the data

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Two interesting bits of news for you! First up, Wolfire Games have updated Overgrowth with another alpha build and the Lugaru campaign is now finished. On top of that, Wolfire has made the data files for Lugaru HD fully open now too.

Be sure to join the big 'BeatFeral' game event in Company of Heroes 2 tonight

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Tonight at 6:30PM UTC, Feral Interactive are hosting a big 'BeatFeral' event online in Company of Heroes 2.

Have you tried Switchcars? A roguelike arcade game set in a broken spacetime

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Switchcars is a game I've been putting off trying for quite some time to wait for it to get polished up some more, but now I've jumped in at the deep end of this arcade style roguelike.

Gearend, a cute 2D non-linear exploration game built on Linux

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I was sent in Gearend by a reader, as it not only looks like a pretty good 2D exploration game, but it's also developed on Linux.

Discord announce their Linux client is now officially supported and out of beta

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Discord, the insanely popular chat and VOIP client primarily aimed at gamers is now officially supported on Linux and out of beta.

Observer, a new horror from the 'Layers of Fear' developer and publisher Aspyr Media announced

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Observer, a brand new horror from the developers of 'Layers of Fear' has been announced. It's being published by Aspyr Media once again and I have it confirmed it will be on Linux.

Ballistic Overkill, possibly my current favourite online FPS updated, available in more countries now too

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Ballistic Overkill, the really fun and dirt cheap online FPS is now available in more countries! On top of that, they worked on some more optimization.

NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan

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NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.

Clean up after a dungeon master and discover secrets in 'Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week'

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The developer of Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week emailed in to let us know about their game and it has a rather unusual setting.

Project Zomboid updated yet again, trading now possible with other players

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Project Zomboid has another release pushed to the stable branch of this in-development Zombie survival game. One of the major new features is the ability to trade with other players when playing online.

Some thoughts on Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the real-time tactics game

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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a top-down stealth game from Mimimi Productions released with day-1 Linux support. I have fond memories of games like Commandos, so is it any good?

Ignition, another classic game re-released on GOG with Linux support

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Thanks to GOG and DOSBox, Linux gamers can enjoy the classic crazy racing game Ignition, which originally released in 1997.

Lars Doucet, a game developer, is asking Valve to open source the Steam Controller software

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Lars Doucet, developer of Defender's Quest has written up a reddit post requesting Valve to open source the Steam Controller software.

Last day to submit games to our Linux GOTY awards

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I decided to extend the submission time for our GOTY awards by one day just to give it a bit more exposure to gather a good list.

Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi

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Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.

Chronicon, a good looking 2D action RPG should come to Linux

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The developer of Chronicon has stated that a Linux build will be worked on and should be available in a few months.

Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too

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It’s been a bit of a ride, but we now have it confirmed for sure that Civilization VI is coming to Linux, and the release isn’t far off. We are able to confirm this with permission before the official announcement from Aspyr Media that is due later today.

Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi

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Mesa has another patch that will be interesting for Linux gamers. This is actually a two-part fix as it was re-worked. The Witcher 2 should have a lot less black flickering with this latest patch.