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Steam Autumn Sale and the 2020 Steam Award Nominations are now live
Get your wallets ready and your votes as two big events are happening and live now on Steam with both the Steam Autumn Sale and the 2020 Steam Award Nominations.
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Metro Exodus is still planned to release for Linux and macOS
4A Games have confirmed in an official 10th anniversary update post today that Metro Exodus is still going to release for Linux and macOS as well.
Re-live the experience of Half-Life with Black Mesa: Definitive Edition out now
Black Mesa: Definitive Edition is the final big update to the re-imagined fan-made Half-Life game, and it's looking pretty awesome. Easily the best way to experience the first part of Half-Life.
340 or so days later and I am still lost in The Longing
Remember the unique mix of point and click adventuring with an idle game in The Longing? It's supposed to have taken people 400 days to finish.
SteamOS-like couch gaming Linux distribution GamerOS expands with a new release
Need an up to date Linux distribution for your living room big screen experience? GamerOS can fill that gap for you while Valve sit on SteamOS. Also, come check out the talk on it from the 2020 Arch Linux Conf.
Tristam Island is a Infocom-inspired text adventure available on over 30 platforms
Okay, now this is quite impressive. Tristam Island is a text adventure designed like old Infocom works and it's playable across more platforms than you might expect.
NVIDIA plan to support Linux with GeForce NOW using Chrome
For a while you've been able to use NVIDIA GeForce NOW in your browser, however it looks like NVIDIA will be making that a bit more official for Linux.
Jedi: Fallen Order arrives on Stadia, six new free games for Stadia Pro for December
Google continues to boost their game selection with many fan favourites continuing to arrive on their Stadia game streaming service. They also have big plans.
Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.
Build your own ruler in the massive Crusader Kings III update out now
Paradox has released the big 1.2 update to Crusader Kings III, with it comes a fun new feature that lets you properly design your initial ruler.
Deep survival game Vintage Story has my full attention with the latest expansion
Vintage Story has a huge new version almost ready to release, with a couple of Release Candidates going up for the 1.14 release and it's looking awesome.
Vulkan for the Raspberry Pi 4 with V3DV is now conformant and official
Great news for the Vulkan API and for fans of the Raspberry Pi 4, as the upcoming V3DV that will be part of the next Mesa release is now an official conforming driver.
Amnesia: Rebirth is easily one of the scariest and best games of 2020
After a rough launch, Frictional Games have nicely fixed up Amnesia: Rebirth and overall the experience is one we're not going to forget any time soon.
The Internet Archive are keeping Flash creations alive with the open source Ruffle
Like many of you, I have certain fond memories of playing various Flash games many years ago. There's obviously many better ways to do web games now and Adobe are killing Flash in December.
Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator from IPACS is now available on Linux
Need to take to the skies? We can possibly help with that. Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator from IPACS recently quitely released a Linux version.
Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has announced that they're now being funded by Valve, so Blumenkrantz's work on the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' will continue.
You can now try the RetroArch Playtest on Steam for Linux
With the awesome RetroArch application for running emulators and all sorts coming to Steam, they now have a Playtest available you can opt into to try it out.
A chat with Trese Brothers Games about the upcoming cyberpunk Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
We have a chat with Trese Brothers Games who are currently developing Cyber Knights: Flashpoint following a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in March 2020.
Vulkan Ray Tracing becomes official with Vulkan 1.2.162 (updated)
The day has arrived, along with the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 being tagged in the Vulkan-Docs repository on GitHub the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now officially released.
The upcoming metroidvania RPG 'Heart Forth, Alicia' is looking gorgeous
Here's a game I haven't heard of for a few years. Heart Forth, Alicia is an upcoming modern Metroidvania RPG, filled with devious monsters, lethal dungeons, creative puzzles, lively towns & many uncharted wonders.
- The original Pillars of Eternity is getting a turn-based mode Beta on November 5
- Anti-grav racer BallisticNG brings new tracks, enhanced online play and more for the final update
- The Siege Update for Dwarf Fortress has arrived
- Valve upgrade Proton Hotfix to improve NINJA GAIDEN 4 on Desktop Linux
- NVIDIA driver 580.105.08 out now for Linux as the new recommended version
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