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Godot Engine received a fresh grant from Facebook / Meta for XR work

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

Valve has put out another small upgrade to Proton Experimental, with it focused on improving a couple of popular games.

Red Hat donates $10,000 to OBS Studio, their Flatpak to be official for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

Little bit of good news to start Tuesday, as the excellent livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio got another good donation recently, this time from Red Hat.

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Collabora announce wxrd, a standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Working with Virtual Reality and Linux just got a lot more interesting, with the clever hackers at Collabora announcing their new standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop called wxrd.

Fast-paced strategic action in Sky Fleet is out now

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Melding together elements of a fast-paced action game with the tactics of a tower defence game, Sky Fleet is officially out now.

Park management sim Indoorlands now lets you make your own rides

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Indoorlands is a pretty unique game when it comes to building up a theme park and the developer just put up the biggest and most interesting Early Access update yet.

Goblinz Studio to bring even more turn-based goodies with Sandwalkers

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game from Goblinz Studio, who've developed and published a number of games now like Legend of Keepers, Sigma Theory, As Far As The Eye, Neurodeck and more.

Selaco looks mental in the latest 'ridiculous' particle effects teaser

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Built with the awesome power of GZDoom, the upcoming shooter Selaco is really looking to be something quite special and I absolutely need to play this.

Well that's a surprise, Project Zomboid's MASSIVE overhaul is out now

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Not long at all after putting up a special Beta for testing, The Indie Stone have now set the massive Build 41 overhaul for the Zombie survival game Project Zomboid up as the official new version.

Colony building, automation and logistics galore in Kubifaktorium out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2021

Kubifaktorium isn't as well known as a number of other building sims but it's certainly an interesting one and now it has left Early Access as a finished game.

Steam Labs Experiment 13 upgrades the store tag hubs

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2021

Valve are always tweaking something on Steam and their latest experiment is an upgrade to the Store Hubs, the areas on Steam where you can browse through all the random tags.