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Netflix is getting into video games, so we'll have another cloud gaming service

By Liam Dawe,
Not only is Netflix a huge force in series, films, anime and plenty more they're also now getting into video games.

Indoor theme park builder Indoorlands is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
You've built theme parks before but not like this. Indoorlands changes the way you design parks, with everything inside huge customizable halls and it's now in Early Access.

Open source instant replay software ReplaySorcery adds an experimental KMS service

By Liam Dawe,
ReplaySorcery is a pretty great bit of open source software, giving you a simple to use instant replay solution for capturing quick bits of whatever is on your screen.

In the platformer-metroidvania Soulchild you're a demon trying to get back home

By Liam Dawe,
It's not easy being a demon it seems, especially when you're somewhat lost and trying to get home. Soulchild follows the story of Silk, who was kicked out of Hell by a new king.

Free and open source space trading game Endless Sky gets a 0.9.14 polishing release

By Liam Dawe,
Bringing the fun of the original Escape Velocity series, the free and open source Endless Sky has another release out with version 0.9.14 with an aim to polish it up a little.

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.