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Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti

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Minetest, a voxel game engine created to be something like a Minecraft clone, is finally smashing apart the chains to become more its own unique thing.

Open source Theme Hospital engine 'CorsixTH' v0.68.0 out now

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Theme Hospital originally from Bullfrog Productions is a true classic, one I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing and the CorsixTH project is doing fantastic work to keep it alive for modern platforms. A new release of this open source reimplementation has been released with version 0.68.0 now available.

SteamOS 3.6.18 Beta released, still not quite the true end of the line

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When will it end? Will SteamOS 3.6 ever become stable? The end of the line has come, and gone, a few times now.

Steam purchases now clearly state you're just getting a license not ownership

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Doing the rounds across the net right now is a small update to the Steam checkout process when you're making a purchase, to make it clear you don't own what you buy.

NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader

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There's a bit of unfortunate drama going on right now in Steam Deck land, with the Steam Deck plugin NonSteamLaunchers for Decky Loader getting the boot.

Comedy 2.5D puzzle-platformer Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator gets a demo and new trailer

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A single-player comedy adventure 2.5D platformer developer by a former Disney ride designer, Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator looks and sounds great.

ZEPHON from the devs of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius releases November 8

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Proxy Studios, developer of the popular Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, have announced their next 4x strategy game ZEPHON will release on November 8th.

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered announced by Aspyr for 2025

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Aspyr Media seem to be on quite a roll lately, as they've today not only announced Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles for PC but also Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered as well!

Aspyr announce Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles coming to PC in 2025

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Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles is another remaster coming from Aspyr Media, bringing over the originally console-exclusive game to PC.

Humble Store has a big sale on Handheld Hits - cheap games for Steam Deck

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If you're in need of more games, here's another big sale for you. Humble Store are running a Handheld Hits sale that's good for Steam Deck players.

Internet Archive hit with DDoS attacks and hacked with 31 million accounts hit

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A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.

Ubuntu 24.10, Kubuntu 24.10 and other Linux flavours now officially released

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The day is here. Canonical have announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole), along with various flavours like Kubuntu 24.10 now being available.

Gaming on Linux with Apple Silicon now becoming a very real thing

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Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has given an update in a blog post and a presentation at XDC 2024 going over work to improve Linux gaming on the Apple M1/M2 with Asahi Linux.

First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility

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In a really surprising move the developers behind Decky Loader plugin Junk Store, which provides the ability to install games from GOG and Epic Games, are bringing the plugin to Steam officially.

Steam Deck officially comes to Australia in November

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Our friends down under will finally be able to buy an officially supported Steam Deck, as it heads to Australia officially in November.

Think you've seen it all? There's now a Steam game about squeezing eggs

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You've cooked a lot of them in Arctic Eggs (which is really good) but have you ever just stopped for a moment to squeeze some eggs? No? Maybe you should.

Explore a top-secret uranium mine in retro-FPS Kvark

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Kvark is a new release from developer Latest Past and publisher Perun Creative, set in a fictional version of the 80s Czech Republic where you explore a top-secret uranium mine.

Fanatical give you another chance to build up your Resident Evil collection

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If you've missed out on previous sales and bundles of Resident Evil games, you've got another chance for some big savings in the Build your own Resident Evil Bundle: Reawakened from Fanatical.

Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) is a sweet game about writing letters to real people

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Expanding greatly from the original, Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) from Popcannibal is out now with Linux support.

FEX-Emu version 2410 out bringing some important fixes for gaming on AArch64

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FEX-Emu is an emulation layer that allows you to run x86 and x86-64 binaries (like games and apps) on an AArch64 Linux host, similar to qemu-user and box86/box64. Instead of using full disk images, FEX-Emu uses rootfs overlay + forwarding GL processing to the host to achieve better performance in emulated software.