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Eight years later Arx Libertatis 1.2 is out now with support for high resolutions

By Liam Dawe,
Arx Libertatis is an improved, cross-platform and open source engine for the 2002 game Arx Fatalis. After a long period of no updates a huge new release is out.

Try out the new world generation in a Caves & Cliffs: Part II test for Minecraft

By Liam Dawe,
Caves & Cliffs: Part II is in development at Mojang as the next major Minecraft upgrade and you can now test the new world generation is a special build.

Valve has released an updated Steam Client with some Linux improvements included

By Liam Dawe,
After another while of releasing Beta builds for users to test, Valve has now pushed out the latest stable Steam Client upgrade for everyone and some Linux improvements are in.

Stadia gets more generous revenue models plus a porting toolkit for DirectX to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
At the recent Google for Games Developer Summit it seems that Google actually still has quite a clear focus on Stadia and they're trying to entice more developers to bring their games over.

Dark mysterious metroidvania Crowsworn is live on Kickstarter and flew past the goal

By Liam Dawe,
Crowsworn looks pretty damn good and it appears plenty of other people feel the same way, with it only just launching on Kickstarter recently and the goal was completely smashed.

Pecaminosa is a film noir inspired police action RPG out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
BadLand Publishing and developer Cereal Games have now officially released their film noir inspired police action RPG Pecaminosa on Linux.

Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony gets another big update in the 3.1 release

By Liam Dawe,
After the recent 3.0 release of Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony, a free FPS inspired by WWII shooters from the 90's and early 2000's they gathered a lot of feedback and another release is out now.

Splitgate the FPS with portals (formerly Splitgate: Arena Warfare) is confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Splitgate, originally called Splitgate: Arena Warfare, is going through a huge overhaul and relaunching on July 27 and now Linux support is confirmed.

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror deck building dungeon crawler out July 30

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for another game that will truly mash a bunch of genres together? Draft of Darkness is confirmed to be entering Early Access on July 30.

Lona: Realm Of Colors is a short artsy adventure that looks quite astonishing

By Liam Dawe,
Lona: Realm Of Colors is a short adventure that focuses on bringing various paintings to life based on the protagonists conflicting emotions.

Save creatures from disaster in Panic Mode, a 3D Lemmings-like in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
With creatures inspired by the idea of the classic Lemmings games, in Panic Mode you need to safely guide a bunch of 'pammies' out of various dangerous situations.

Proton Experimental adds VKD3D-Proton 2.4 and some more fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Another smaller update to Proton Experimental has arrived, the special version of Proton where the latest enhancements come in before rolling out to the main Proton builds.

Linux Mint 20.2 is out now with upgrades from 20 and 20.1 possible

By Liam Dawe,
The Linux Mint team have now released the latest Linux Mint 20.2 which comes with either Cinnamon, MATE or Xfce.

Muck is a crazy-popular free procedural survival game out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
What seems to have come out of nowhere is Muck, a brand new survival game that blends in some random generation to make each playthrough different and it's now on Linux.

X3: Farnham's Legacy now available for Linux with Linux fixes for other games live

By Liam Dawe,
Egosoft announced today that the free DLC X3: Farnham's Legacy that was released back in April is now officially out with a Linux build and there's more.

XWayland 21.1.2 is out now with support for hardware accelerated NVIDIA on the 470 driver

By Liam Dawe,
A day many have been waiting for is here. Following on from NVIDIA releasing the NVIDIA 470.42.01 Beta driver that finally supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland, a brand new release of XWayland is out now.

Crash Drive 3 is a new fast-paced stunt racer out now

By Liam Dawe,
Developed by M2H, one of the teams responsible for the likes of Verdun, Tannenberg and Marooners they've just released Crash Drive 3 as the latest crazy stunt racer.

Elroy And The Aliens is an upcoming world-saving sci-fi adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Motiviti has announced Elroy And The Aliens, a fresh modern point & click adventure where you deal with a father who vanished 18 years ago in suspicious circumstances.

The Machinery game engine launches the Early Adopters program

By Liam Dawe,
Our Machinery has announced the availability of their game engine The Machinery with an Early Adopters program that gives a discount on the licensing, although it's free if your team pulls in less than $100K.

The major 'Summer Update' is out for Transport Fever 2

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from the Vulkan upgrade, Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer Urban Games have released the next major upgrade for Transport Fever 2.