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Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond will have you dig below the surface and on asteroids

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing on September 7, Surviving Mars: Below & Beyond is the brand new expansion for the Martian city-builder from Paradox Interactive and newer developer Abstraction (who took over from Haemimont Games).

Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan continues maturing with a big performance fix

By Liam Dawe,
Zink continues to be a promising Mesa driver for Linux that runs OpenGL on top of Vulkan. It's not finished yet and so continues seeing some big performance fixes.

Valheim will let you puke up all your food in Hearth & Home

By Liam Dawe,
The food system is about to get a bit more depth to it in the Hearth & Home update for Valheim, with new items and ways to cook and there's a way to puke it all up too.

Race across the galaxy to save Earth in The Captain releasing October 21

By Liam Dawe,
Ready up for your next space adventure with The Captain. A blending of a point and click adventure, a space sim and much more into one gorgeous looking game.

Tactical narrative hacking RPG 'Midnight Protocol' releases Q4 2021 and gets a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for some hacking? Midnight Protocol, the strategic RPG from LuGus Studios and Iceberg Interactive is seeing a slight delay to the release but there's a new trailer and demo up.

Check out Cursed Letters, a first-person stealth horror game with retro visuals

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a fresh one for you - Cursed Letters is a first-person stealth horror game with retro visuals from Aeternum Ludos.

The new 'Apps for GNOME' website aims to help you discover more and get involved

By Liam Dawe,
GNOME continue building up their ecosystem and their marketing game too with the launch of a new "Apps for GNOME" website to help people get involved and discover more.

Mini Metro now lets you build up one of Europe's oldest metro systems in Budapest

By Liam Dawe,
Nearly six years after release, the traffic-management building sim Mini Metro has another wonderful update out to pull you back in to play hours more.

EndeavourOS gets a big upgrade to their ISO download that's 'a significant step' for it

By Liam Dawe,
EndeavourOS, my absolute favourite way to easily install Arch Linux with a couple nice extras has continued growing and there's a brand new ISO download with plenty of improvements.

Primordia from Wormwood Studios gets native Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Primordia, a popular point and click adventure created by Wormwood Studios and originally released in 2012 has officially been released natively for Linux.

Explore a perilous world as a travelling caravan in Vagrus - The Riven Realms on October 5

By Liam Dawe,
A deep, text-heavy strategic RPG is what awaits you in Vagrus - The Riven Realms and it's going to be hitting the big 1.0 on October 5 as it leaves Early Access.

Linux Kernel 5.14 rolls out as Linus Torvalds jokes about the 30 year celebrations

By Liam Dawe,
Time to put down that cake and try out a new Linux Kernel as Linux 5.14 has been officially released.

Valve catches a break in the Steam Controller patent trial versus Ironburg

By Liam Dawe,
In the ongoing saga between Ironburg Inventions and Valve, a new ruling appeared on August 17 that gives Valve another chance to invalidate some parts of the patents involved.

Wine 6.16 is out now with initial HID-based joystick backend work

By Liam Dawe,
Another biweekly development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine is out now with Wine 6.16.

IXION is a city-building survival game on a huge moving space station

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games (Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus) we have IXION, a new sci-fi building and exploration game with a trailer where the moon blows up.

Stone Age co-op farming life sim Roots of Pacha looks wonderful in the new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Roots of Pacha is a crowdfunded Stone Age farming life adventure coming to Linux. A little like a prehistoric Stardew Valley and the latest walk-through trailer is looking wonderful.

Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM looks like a fun Kickstarter to follow

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in the early history of coding games? Coding History: 3D from Mode7 to DOOM from indie game developer Eniko (founder of Kitsune Games) will walk you through it, while also providing open source code you can use and learn from.

Deck-building meets big metal mechs in Jupiter Moons: Mecha with a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Another coming out of Gamescom 2021 is a brand new short trailer for Jupiter Moons: Mecha, a deck-builder that puts you in the pilot seat of a big powerful mech unit.

World War I survival horror CONSCRIPT gets a new extended trailer

By Liam Dawe,
CONSCRIPT from Catchweight Studio is an upcoming survival horror where you're a lone French soldier in the trenches, as you set off to try and find your brother during the Battle of Verdun.

Wonderful relaxing beekeeping sim APICO is opening up a playtest

By Liam Dawe,
Want to care for the bees? The upcoming casual sim APICO from TNgineers is opening up a Steam Playtest that starts on August 30 for anyone to give it a try.