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Total War: ROME REMASTERED gets a small first patch, devs looking into AI improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: ROME REMASTERED had a bit of a rocky start to life but Feral Interactive, Creative Assembly and SEGA are planning to keep improving it which sounds good.

Creators of Warhammer 40K Gladius have announced their new 4x strategy ZEPHON

By Liam Dawe,
Proxy Studios, developer of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius and Pandora: First Contact have just recently announced their brand new upcoming 4x strategy game ZEPHON.

Star Drifters talk their Linux sales for titles like Danger Scavenger, plus a key giveaway

By Liam Dawe,
Star Drifters recently did their first native Linux release with Danger Scavenger, so their Community & PR Manager got in touch to mention how it all went.

OBS Studio 27.0 out with service integration, browser dock support and Wayland on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio 27.0 is now officially out marking one of the biggest releases they've ever done, especially if you're a Linux user and it's looking great.

Deck-building roguelite Griftlands from Klei is out now and it's wonderful

By Liam Dawe,
After only recently adding Linux support, Klei Entertainment has now officially released their incredibly stylish and engrossing deck-builder Griftlands.

itch.io hosting a huge Queer Games Bundle 2021 with hundreds included

By Liam Dawe,
Want to support small teams and queer creators? Well here's a good chance for you with the itch.io Queer Games Bundle 2021 and there's quite a lot inside.

Judge upholds $4M damages in the patent case against Valve for the Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe,
Back in February 2021 we wrote an article about how Ironburg Inventions (a subsidiary of Corsair Gaming) were suing Valve for the Steam Controller and Valve has now firmly lost the case.

Check out Nainai's Recipe, a sweet game about cooking and staying connected

By Liam Dawe,
2020 and lots of 2021 were weird for a lot of reasons, especially with the quarantines due to COVID-19. Nainai's Recipe is a game about learning to cook, with a little distanced help from your grandma.

First-person grid-based dungeon crawler Inferno - Beyond the 7th Circle out now

By Liam Dawe,
Inferno - Beyond the 7th Circle is a brand new dungeon crawler like they used to make. Grid-based movement, a moody theme and now there's a Linux native version available.

Dungeon-crawling tower defense 'Dwerve' delays the release until early 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Dwerve, a crowdfunded and very promising upcoming dungeon crawler that blends in tower defense has a long delay.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player releases in November

By Liam Dawe,
Another revamp of a classic is on the way with the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player project, which has announced a release on November 19, 2021.

There's experimental patches to bring Vulkan Ray Tracing to older AMD hardware on Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
Want to see how Ray Tracing would run on Linux using the Mesa RADV driver on an older GPU? Well, thanks to developer Joshua Ashton that's starting to be possible.

AMD reveals Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution and more

By Liam Dawe,
AMD came out of the gates swinging wildly at Computex 2021 with new chips, new tech and lots more new including: AMD 3D chiplet technology, AMD Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, next-gen gaming laptops with their new AMD Radeon 6000M Series Mobile Graphics and their DLSS competitor in FidelityFX Super Resolution.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA did a big splash at Computex 2021 with the expected announcement of two new top-end GPUs and quite a big surprise for Linux gaming with the official inclusion of NVIDIA DLSS for Proton.

sSSSsss BOOM! The Minecraft Caves & Cliffs: Part 1 update releases on June 8

By Liam Dawe,
Pick up your sword, your shovel and prepare for an almighty headbutt as Minecraft Caves & Cliffs: Part 1 has been confirmed for release on June 8.

Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 25 to release in June with feature-freeze imminent

By Liam Dawe,
Wildfire Games have given an update on the status of 0 A.D. Alpha 25, which they've now confirmed the feature freeze will begin on June 6 to focus on getting it release ready.

Fanatical has some good bundles going right now if you need some new games

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical aren't a store we cover often but they're actually great, and they currently have a few bundles going that you should check out if you need some new games this week.

1998 classic strategy game Signus: The Artefact Wars sees a full open source release

By Liam Dawe,
Signus: The Artefact Wars, originally a commercial release in 1998 was later open sourced in 2002 and it just got an updated re-release with all the data too.

Retro game streaming service Piepacker is quite impressive and works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
We've seen numerous game streaming services now like Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and probably more to come. They all focus on the new and shiny but what about old games? Piepacker is going to be a hit for that.

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries runs great on Linux with Proton now it's on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, the first single player MechWarrior game for a long time has jumped from the Epic Store over to Steam and it runs well on Linux.