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Check out the Linux system specs needed for the Metro Exodus port releasing April 14

By Liam Dawe,
Metro Exodus will be officially releasing for Linux on April 14, ahead of the release 4A Games and Deep Silver have put out some new system requirements.

Get three months FREE of Stadia Pro thanks to Lenovo

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get some free Pro time on Google Stadia? Here's a chance for you if you act quick enough as Lenovo are giving away 3 months of Stadia Pro for FREE.

OpenHV, a free and open source RTS based on the unreleased Hard Vacuum has a stable build

By Liam Dawe,
If you're looking out for a new real-time strategy (RTS) to play you're in luck. Recently, OpenHV has a first stable release powered by the OpenRA game engine.

Build engine port backed by GZDoom tech 'Raze' has a 1.0 release with Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
Raze is a fresh attempt to bring together many different games under one roof including Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior and Exhumed/Powerslave.

Portal Stories: Mel gets Vulkan support on Linux in a new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Portal Stories: Mel, an extremely popular and highly rated mod for Portal 2 just had a new Beta pushed out which adds in Vulkan support for Linux.

Grape times ahead with the release of Wine 6.6 noting plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe,
No wine-ing about the puns please. Jokes aside, the tasty compatibility tech that is Wine has a new development release available today with Wine 6.6.

Dota 2 version 7.29 is out with the new Dawnbreaker melee hero

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has put out a major upgrade for their popular free to play MOBA with Dota 2 getting Dawnbreaker.

Xwayland work for hardware accelerated NVIDIA support has been merged in

By Liam Dawe,
Another exciting moment for fans of Wayland and the future of Linux, especially if you're an NVIDIA user, as the work to provide hardware accelerated rendering for NVIDIA GPUs was merged in for Xwayland.

Isometric city builder Nebuchadnezzar gets a huge update with freeplay maps

By Liam Dawe,
Nebuchadnezzar, the great looking isometric city-builder that's very much like the old Impressions Games titles like Pharaoh and Zeus has a first post-release upgrade out and it's a big one.

Charles Games (Attentat 1942) sound positive about porting to Linux in their recap

By Liam Dawe,
Ondrej Trhon of Charles Games (Attentat 1942) has written up a blog post on Gamasutra about how things went after setting up an indie studio 13 months ago.

Selaco is an upcoming GZDoom-powered shooter that looks awesome

By Liam Dawe,
Never one to miss out on a good first-person shooter fuelled by GZDoom, today I came across Selaco and it instantly grabbed my attention for looking awesome.

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare DLC and free update announced

By Liam Dawe,
Did you love Streets Of Rage 4? We sure did and there's plenty more of it coming with Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare.

Stadia announces even more games coming, Borderlands 3 free for a few days on Pro

By Liam Dawe,
Google continues announcing more and more games for their cloud gaming / game streaming service Stadia, with a bunch of indie games from their Stadia Makers program coming. Plus new releases out now and free play days for Borderlands 3. Time for another Stadia round-up!

Euro Truck Simulator 2 expands with Iberia DLC out now

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to be one of the most popular games on Steam, Euro Truck Simulator 2 from Prague-based SCS Software expands once again with a fresh location out now with the Iberia DLC release.

Upcoming cyberpunk point and click Invasive Recall has an awesome vibe to it

By Liam Dawe,
Another high quality point and click adventure has been announced with Invasive Recall, a cyberpunk game set in the not-so-distant future where there's a device that can scan and interpret thoughts of the human mind.

Time to get testing Ubuntu 21.04 ahead of release, plus Canonical loses another face

By Liam Dawe,
We seem to have missed the actual Ubuntu Testing Week but a late reminder is better than none at all right? With Ubuntu 21.04 coming soon it's time to report the bugs.

2D first-person point-and-click adventure The Wild Case is out now

By Liam Dawe,
2D and yet first-person? Imagine playing a hidden object game but it's a point and click adventure, that's sort of what you get with the new release of The Wild Case.

Tyrant's Blessing will offer up slick tactical battles inspired by Into the Breach

By Liam Dawe,
Into the Breach is a fantastic game that really hits the mark for turn-based strategy fans and now Mercury Game Studio are doing their own take on that style with Tyrant's Blessing.

Fast-paced futuristic Wipeout-like racer Metric Racer adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
If you need a new fast-pacing racing fix, check out the promising looking Early Access game Metric Racer which has recently added Linux support on Steam.

Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers announced as a follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for a little romance and some classic arcade gaming? Well, Fiction Factory Games and PQube Limited recently announced Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers as a follow-up to the 2019 title Arcade Spirits.