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It's that time of the year again. 2021 is nearly over after what feels like the longest year ever so let's all hope for a better 2022 shall we?
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Get I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream free on GOG for 48 hours
During the GOG Winter Sale they have another game giveaway and so you can grab the classic I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for free right now.
Skullgirls: Umbrella gets an Early Access release with the story mode
One of the best fighting games on PC is expanding again, with the latest character getting a full DLC that's in Early Access right now with Skullgirls: Umbrella.
Play some socially-distanced tabletop games with a new FoundryVTT release
FoundryVTT version 9 has been released, further improving many big parts of this excellent cross-platform virtual tabletop experience and it's looking awesome.
The classic Naev, a free and open source space sim version 0.9 released
Time to explore space once again? Naev is an absolute classic. It's free, open source and it continues to mature with some more modern features available in the new 0.9 release.
Watch Over Christmas is a sweet festive point and click adventure out now
Visit the elves with a younger audience perhaps? Looks like Watch Over Christmas could be a good family game for you.
Manjaro 21.2.0 'Qonos' is out, the Linux distro Valve suggests for Steam Deck testing
A fresh new release of Manjaro Linux is out now bringing with it tons of enhancements. Manjaro 21.2.0 Qonos comes in multiple editions with KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce desktops available.
The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live
The moment I'm sure plenty of our readers have been waiting for: the Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live.
Collabora's work on a Wayland driver for Wine is coming along nicely
To end the year the open source consulting firm Collabora, who often works with Valve, has written up a fresh post with a video to show off their Wayland driver for Wine.
Godot Engine received a fresh grant from Facebook / Meta for XR work
Seems that Blender isn't the only free and open source project pulling in attention from backers, with the Godot Engine team announcing today that Facebook / Meta have given them additional funding for VR / AR (XR) work.
2D open-world sandbox action-adventure Necesse released for Linux
A weird love-child mixture of games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley and Terraria we have Necesse that's currently in Early Access and a Linux version is now available.
Death Stranding absolutely sold me and you should play it
I don't actually often play the big AAA games but for Death Stranding, I finally took the plunge and thanks to Steam Play Proton running it on Linux was a fantastic experience overall.
Book of Travels did not have a good launch, Might and Delight let devs go
Times are tough for some developers with the latest victim of a poor release being Book of Travels from Might and Delight.
The itch.io Winter Sale is now live with plenty of indies
Ready to pick up some more games to stay warm with this Winter? If you enjoy indie games then it may be worth take a look over on itch.io with their Winter Sale.
Alpha 20 goes live for survival game 7 Days to Die
The Fun Pimps have promoted Alpha 20 of 7 Days to Die to the stable release builds making in the new official update and it's a big one again.
My favourite 2021 games played on Linux
Here we are, the year is ending so here's a few of what I consider to be my favourite games played on Linux that had a release during 2021.
Intel has boosted their commitment to Blender as a Corporate Patron
Intel was already a pretty high backer of the free and open source 3D creation suite Blender but now they're going in for even more as a Corporate Patron.
The beautiful Linux distro elementary OS 6.1 is out now
elementary OS is easily one of the best looking Linux distributions around, with such an incredible attention to the finer details and a big new release is up now.
This hilarious Doom mod takes aim at NFTs
NFTs, they're freaking everywhere and NFT bros have become some of the most annoying people on the planet and so of course there's now a Doom mod to mock them.
Proton Experimental sees new fixes for DEATHLOOP, Forza Horizon 5
Valve has put out another small upgrade to Proton Experimental, with it focused on improving a couple of popular games.
- SteamOS 3.7.5 for Steam Deck now in Beta with big upgrades and initial support for more hardware
- Valve developers continue to impress, fixing Proton in less than a day for the Starfield Beta
- Proton 10 gets another Beta update with more fixes for Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck
- Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency
- Palworld devs confirm game changes due to the Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit
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