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Couch gaming Linux distribution ChimeraOS has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
ChimeraOS (originally GamerOS) is a big-screen Linux gaming experience designed for couch gaming (think like SteamOS) and there's a brand new release available.

The universe expands with Stellaris 3.1 'Lem' out now, Stellaris free to try until Sept 20

By Liam Dawe,
Now is the absolute best time to love space and strategy games! Paradox Interactive has today released the 3.1 Lem update for Stellaris and you can play free until September 20.

1047 Games raise $100 million to continue Splitgate development

By Liam Dawe,
For the second time 1047 Games have announced a big load of cash coming their way for Splitgate, the very popular free to play first-person shooter with portals.

RetroArch gets a Steam release bringing emulation to even more gamers

By Liam Dawe,
While it might not be the first application to provide emulation on Steam it's probably one of the biggest projects as RetroArch is not a single emulator. Instead, it provides a tidy user interface to get lots of different emulators, as well as play media and all sorts.

Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has given a short update on the dev-kits for the upcoming Linux powered handheld Steam Deck, with more developers being able to get their hands on it soon.

The new work on futex2 from Collabora to improve Linux gaming and Proton has third attempt

By Liam Dawe,
It seems the ongoing saga of getting the futex2 work into the Linux Kernel, which is supposed to help Linux gaming and Steam Play Proton, has another attempt up.

Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan adds more game support like Metro: Last Light

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued hacking away on the Zink driver, that provides OpenGL over Vulkan to ensure it works with even more games.

Following the footsteps on Fallout and Wasteland, ATOM RPG Trudograd is out now

By Liam Dawe,
ATOM RPG Trudograd is the standalone expansion / sequel to the original hit ATOM RPG, inspired by the likes of Fallout and Wasteland it's a top-down turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game.

Single-player arena-styled FPS Cathedral 3-D arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
With the latest update to the single-player arena-styled first-person shooter Cathedral 3-D has now been released officially for Linux.

GameMaker Studio 2 update released to bring forth the Ubuntu Linux editor Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Back in early August we wrote about how YoYo Games were introducing the GameMaker Studio 2 editor for Linux, well as of the latest official update the Beta is actually out.

Total War: WARHAMMER III delayed for all platforms until 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Creative Assembly announced today that Total War: WARHAMMER III has been moved from late 2021 until sometime in early 2022.

Surviving Mars gets a needed hotfix clearing up Below and Beyond

By Liam Dawe,
Below and Beyond released recently as the new expansion for Surviving Mars now that Paradox Interactive has decided to pick up development again but it has been problematic.

Ahead of Hearth & Home for Valheim, the developer has a longer fireside chat

By Liam Dawe,
Want to listen to the team from Iron Gate talk about Valheim and the upcoming Hearth & Home update that's due out on September 16? Sit a while and drink some mead.

xrdesktop for turning your desktop into a VR space had a productive Summer

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora has given an update on the working going into xrdesktop, the free and open source project that turns your desktop into a VR space and allows you to layer windows on top of others.

Steam has turned 18 years old and PC gaming has never been the same since

By Liam Dawe,
It's truly hard to imagine just how much Valve managed to change what PC gaming is thanks to Steam. On September 12, the Steam client celebrated 18 years.

Wild time-looping adventure Kraken Academy!! is out now

By Liam Dawe,
A high school like no other with ghosts, cultists, crocodiles and something about a magical kraken that can manipulate time. Kraken Academy!! sounds nuts and it's out now.

Classic 1997 adventure Voodoo Kid gets a Linux release with Boxedwine

By Liam Dawe,
Originally published by Infogrames back in 1997, Voodoo Kid is a classic 1997 point and click adventure which recently saw a re-release earlier in April 2021 and now it's on Linux too.

Version 0.11 is out for Veloren, a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

By Liam Dawe,
Veloren continues to impress as an upcoming in-development free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust.

Psychological horror detective adventure Saint Kotar to release on October 28

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from a successful Kickstarter campaign and Red Martyr Entertainment teaming up with publisher SOEDESCO, their psychological horror detective Saint Kotar is set to release on October 28.

Wine development release 6.17 is out with continued work for the GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe,
Here we are again time to stop and re-wine. Another development release of the Wine compatibility layer has become available with Wine 6.17 having the bottle popped open today.