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Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 adds more content support

By Liam Dawe,
fheroes2 is a constantly improving game engine reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II. A new version was just released recently and it's become the absolute best way to play this classic.

Future sci-fi indie RPG Beyond Mankind: The Awakening now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Time to go back to Earth and retake it. Beyond Mankind: The Awakening from developer Brytenwalda recently released a native Linux version, built with the Unity game engine.

Epic Games CEO says a clear No to Fortnite on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Were you hoping to easily play Fortnite on the upcoming Steam Deck? Well, Tim Sweeney the Epic Games CEO has made it clear that it's not going to happen officially.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 11: Forgotten Heresies

By Hamish,
Almost from the very start Raven Software and id Software had a symbiotic relationship. Given the Linux friendly atmosphere at id, it is no surprise that some of that would start to rub off on Raven, culminating in Loki Software negotiating to make a port of Heretic II.

Steam Deck Previews are up, plus dbrand announce Project Killswitch

By Liam Dawe,
The flood gates are beginning to open around the Steam Deck with a few big YouTube channels doing a hands-on preview now live. Plus, dbrand poke fun at Nintendo with their upcoming Steam Deck accessory kit.

Yacht Club Games' newest title is the upcoming Mina the Hollower

By Liam Dawe,
Yacht Club Games, know for the popular Shovel Knight series has a new game in development called Mina the Hollower, and it's currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter with it being a clear early success.

Indie store itch.io comes out swinging against NFTs

By Liam Dawe,
Not only has Valve banned NFT games from Steam but another store has come out clearly against them, with the official itch.io Twitter account releasing a very clear statement.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds a new cell to grow with

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in Early Access, Thrive is an impressive scientific evolution sim developed in Godot Engine that continues to mature with a new version up.

Online multiplayer for OpenMW (Morrowind) TES3MP is alive again

By Liam Dawe,
OpenMW is a fantastic open source game engine reimplementation for Morrowind, plus there's the online fork of TES3MP which has sprung back to life with a new release.

FEX-Emu is a promising project for gaming on 64bit Arm

By Liam Dawe,
Want to play more games on Arm devices? Projects like Box86 and Box64 do already exist but is there a better option? FEX-Emu sounds like it's going to be another great open source way to do what you want.

RPG game engine Flare gets improved gamepad support, fonts and more in v1.13

By Liam Dawe,
Flare is a free and open source game engine for creating RPGs, plus it also has its own Empyrean Campaign to play through and it continued to get enhanced to be a bit more modern.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux gets some more fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Readying up for the onslaught of users on the Steam Deck who will probably want to play some of their Epic Store loot, the free and open source Heroic Games Launcher has a new bug fix release up.

Linux Kernel getting prepped for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
While it's already known that the Steam Deck will ship with Valve's own SteamOS 3 based on Arch Linux, what about running more standard Linux distributions? It will get easier in a future version of the Linux Kernel.

KDE Plasma continues improving to stop you breaking things

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Nate Graham has highlighted more recent work for the KDE Plasma desktop environment (the one the Steam Deck will come with) and it's all sounding great.

Get some quality games and help charity in the F*CK CANCER Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Get some top quality games, while also helping a charity doing good work in the Humble F*CK CANCER Bundle.

Stadia continues the slow downward spiral

By Liam Dawe,
A new report from Business Insider has highlighted some continuing changes for Google's cloud gaming service Stadia, and it doesn't exactly sound good - but it's also something that was mostly already announced.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is out and works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light 2 will be easily one of the biggest releases this year and the good news is that it works on Linux without any messing around.

Free and open source space sim Pioneer gets a big UI upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Pioneer started off life as a basic spiritual successor to Frontier: Elite II and nowadays it continues being upgraded, to give fans of classic 3D space exploration something fun.

Wadjet Eye Games brings over Resonance to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
What's that? Yet another classic Wadjet Eye Games published point and click adventure is fully upgraded with a new Linux port? Yep! Say hello to Resonance from developer XII Games.

Check out the Fanatical Safe in Our World charity bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical has teamed up with Safe in Our World to offer a bundle of games for you, while also supporting important charity work to help destigmatize mental health within the games industry and for players too.
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