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Manjaro 21.0 'Ornara' is out now with Xfce, KDE and GNOME upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Prefer Manjaro as your favourite Linux distribution or want to try it out? Now looks to be a good time, with the Manjaro 21.0 'Ornara' release now available.

Dungeon-crawler Tangledeep gets a new streamlined mode, try the devs new game too

By Liam Dawe,
If you want to do some dungeon crawling, look no further today than Tangledeep. A sweet pixel-art experience that's highly rated, offers deep character progression and it's still being updated years after release.

OpenRazer 3.0.0 expands with many new Razer devices supported on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Get your fancy Razer mouse, keyboard, laptop and whatever else ready as OpenRazer 3.0.0 is out now to further expand what Razer devices are nicely supported on Linux.

GOverlay gets another small release to help you manage tools like MangoHud

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud is a fantastic way to show off all sorts of details in games on Linux from frame timings to RAM use and plenty more. GOverlay continues making it more accessible with a full UI.

Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation amid calls for FSF resignations

By Liam Dawe,
Back in 2019, Richard Stallman (RMS) resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT but it appears Stallman has returned and many are not happy about this. ARTICLE UPDATED 25/03/21.

To celebrate one year, Half-Life: Alyx is the cheapest it's ever been

By Liam Dawe,
For those who are lucky enough to have a VR kit, Valve's Half-Life: Alyx has today hit one year old and so Valve are doing a small celebration.

Cozy narrative driven adventure game Forgotten Fields releases April 14

By Liam Dawe,
Frostwood Interactive today announce that their latest title, Forgotten Fields, will debut on Steam and GOG on April 14th.

Challenging space survival adventure Derelict Void is out now

By Liam Dawe,
FTL mixed with a little colony management and a brutal difficulty, that seems like what you get with the space survival adventure game Derelict Void that's out now.

Nightfall Hacker goes free for Linux on the Snap store

By Liam Dawe,
Nightfall Hacker, a recently released brand new indie game release from James Harvey of Teradile has now become free for Linux users via the Snap store.

Political strategy game Rogue State Revolution is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Rogue State Revolution, a thrilling political strategy game from LRDGames, Inc. and Modern Wolf is out now with full Linux support and built with Godot Engine.

Warzone 2100 4.0 gets a second Beta to polish up the huge release with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Warzone 2100 is getting an absolutely massive 4.0 release soon and a second Beta is out now with plenty of bug fixes to polish up this excellent free and open source RTS.

Microsoft reportedly have Discord in their sights to acquire

By Liam Dawe,
Do you use Discord? Well if these reports are to be trusted, it looks like they might get a new owner under Microsoft.

Steam Remote Play Together - Invite Anyone is out of Beta, new Steam Client update up

By Liam Dawe,
The expansion of Remote Play Together with Invite Anyone is now live and out of Beta, along with a big update to the Steam Client for all platforms.

Get a free Stadia Premiere Edition with Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 7 free on Pro

By Liam Dawe,
A bunch more Stadia news to cover this morning as we round up some recent news and announcements for Google's fledgling cloud gaming platform. First up is a big one with the Resident Evil series headed to Stadia.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 4: Installing Red Hat Linux 7.3

By Hamish,
I had some grief installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 but with persistence I was able to get it installed. In terms of compatibility though Valhalla proved to be far superior, so I decided to stick with it and focus on improving other parts of the system instead.

GOG have their absolutely huge Spring Sale live now

By Liam Dawe,
Running until April 5, DRM-free store GOG have announced their Spring Sale is now officially live to get some great games for cheaps.

Mixing strategy, puzzles and cards 'Astral Towers' comes to Linux with the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
Combining together a turn-based card game that needs strategy and a little puzzle solving, Astral Towers along with the open source game engine powering it comes to Linux.

The open source Epic Games client for Linux, Heroic Games Launcher can now run offline

By Liam Dawe,
The open source Heroic Games Launcher is a game launcher that currently works with the Epic Games Store, providing Linux users with an easy way to manage it and play games.

Arrow is a new open source app for developing text adventures and game narratives

By Liam Dawe,
Are you designing a game narrative or want to make some sort of text adventure? Even if it's just prototyping or storyboarding the free and open source app Arrow can help.

OpenRA has a massive new release improving the classic Westwood RTS games

By Liam Dawe,
A day I've been waiting for! OpenRA, the game engine reimplementation of Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 has a huge new release out for 2021 and a flashy new website.