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What Never Was: Chapter II gets a teaser trailer and a Steam page

By Liam Dawe,
What Never Was is a free short, story-driven first-person puzzle-solving adventure that released back in 2019. It was so popular that the developer is bringing out What Never Was: Chapter II.

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls releases January 26 and gets a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for more Dead Cells? I know I am! Motion Twin and Evil Empire have announced the Dead Cells: Fatal Falls expansion will release on January 26.

Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs to get OpenGL 3.1 with Mesa 21.0 - first RC up

By Liam Dawe,
With the first Mesa release of 2021 for open source Linux GPU drivers upcoming with Mesa 21.0 hitting the Release Candidate stage, Collabora have been busy bringing up OpenGL on ARM Mali GPUs.

Valve's review of 2020 shows off pretty big numbers - 120 million monthly active users

By Liam Dawe,
With 2020 done and out the way, Valve have put up a 'Year in Review' post highlighting a bunch of facts about what people were doing on Steam and some of the numbers are pretty surprising. Valve also tease more coming for Linux gaming and their continued support.

Kitsune Tails is an upcoming Japanese mythology inspired adventure platformer

By Liam Dawe,
From the developer of MidBoss and Super Bernie World (Kitsune Games) and 2064: Read Only Memories (MidBoss, LLC.) comes Kitsune Tails. An adventure platformer inspired by beloved classics steeped in Japanese mythology.

Grab some indie goodies in the Devolver Digital Hidden Gems Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Need some more games to get you through 2021? The Devolver Digital Hidden Gems Bundle is live up on Steam (again) and comes with some quality experiences.

Shot in the Dark is a clever tough platformer where enemies blend into the background

By Liam Dawe,
Shot in the Dark needs you to have good platforming skills, good point and click aiming skills and it's a whole lot of fun if you're up for the challenge.

PRIM looks like an incredible gothic burtonesque adventure with a demo coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
Common Colors are currently creating PRIM, a point and click adventure with traditional frame-by-frame animation and a dark gothic style that's inspired by Tim Burton.

Dust: The Abandoned Land is a surprising free open-world 2D survival game

By Liam Dawe,
Dust: The Abandoned Land is an in-development 2D open-world survival game, one that has a surprising amount of features and you can play it online with others.

The Ranchers is an upcoming open-world country-life RPG sim

By Liam Dawe,
Love your open-world games? How about farming life sims? The Ranchers looks like another great entry into this more casual and laid-back part of the gaming world.

Slimbook reveal the Ryzen 7 and RTX 3070 powered Titan

By Liam Dawe,
Slimbook, the Linux friendly hardware company that offers Linux as a choice on their hardware has revealed the powerful Titan laptop that's ready for pre-orders.

Stadia gets Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and HITMAN 3 this month

By Liam Dawe,
For the Stadia users amongst our readership: two more big name games will be heading to the Linux and Vulkan powered game streaming service this month.

NVIDIA reveal the GeForce RTX 3060, plus lots of GeForce RTX laptops

By Liam Dawe,
Today CES continues on with Intel and AMD having their announcements, and now it's NVIDIA up with the GeForce RTX 3060, plus lots of GeForce RTX laptops.

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs, RDNA 2 GPUs in the first half of 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Plenty of AMD news announced today during the digital CES event, with new CPUs and GPUs on the way for this year including the Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs.

Revolutionary Games continue building up their free evolution game Thrive

By Liam Dawe,
Starting off as nothing but a tiny little cell in a massive world, Thrive is a free and open source evolution sim backed up by the power of science.

Virtual Reality voxel building game cyubeVR will be supporting Linux in a future build

By Liam Dawe,
Minecraft in VR that's a bit more hands on? cyubeVR (pronounced Cube VR) looks absolutely delightful, and the developer has confirmed their full intention to support Linux too.

Experimental Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu adds Linux AppImage for easier launching

By Liam Dawe,
While still highly experimental and quite a hassle to setup legitimately, the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu is still another fine example of open source.

The open source Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher has a big overhaul

By Liam Dawe,
Work on Heroic Games Launcher, the open source Linux alternative to the Epic Games Store continues rapid improvements with a huge new release out now.

BROK the InvestiGator is an upcoming amusing sounding 'Punch & Click'

By Liam Dawe,
We've seen classic point and click adventures but what about merging one with a beat 'em up? Punch & Click appears to be what you get with BROK the InvestiGator.

Get ready for more Intel with new processor announcements for ultraportable gaming

By Liam Dawe,
While CES has moved online, many companies continue to make announcements and Intel decided to take the time to announce some fresh CPUs coming aimed at ultraportable gaming.