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Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe,
It appears that Valve aren't stopping their push to improve Linux gaming, as they just recently hired another developer to help improve open source graphics drivers.

5 new titles and 1 leaving Stadia Pro in August, Celeste out now + more Stadia news

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your regular dose of Stadia news, as today Google revealed a bunch more games coming to their Linux-powered game streaming service.

The upcoming game 'qomp' turns you into the Pong ball as you try to escape

By Liam Dawe,
That poor ball, stuck between Pong paddles that just bounce it around and they've done it since 1972. The ball has had enough of this and it's going to escape.

The free pixel-art Bronze Age RTS The Fertile Crescent continues evolving

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoy a good traditional real-time strategy game and you haven't already tried The Fertile Crescent, you're really missing out on a wonderful title that keeps getting better.

WWI FPS 'Tannenberg' adds a big new free map with a famous fortress - on a big sale

By Liam Dawe,
M2H and Blackmill Games recently released Tannenberg, their WWI FPS on consoles but they haven't left the PC version behind with a fresh update out with a new map.

Saint Kotar will bring a psychological horror adventure as a Kickstarter success

By Liam Dawe,
After the release of a free Prologue with Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask and a Kickstarter campaign that is now completed, the full Saint Kotar experience is on the way.

The latest art of rally demo update adds in crowds, improved handling

By Liam Dawe,
art of rally, an upcoming stylized rally experience from the creator of Absolute Drift still has a demo available and it was recently updated.

Thrive, the free and open source evolution sim has a fresh release with save support

By Liam Dawe,
After moving over to Godot Engine as the base for Thrive, the team behind this free and open source game of evolution have a new and important update available.

A System76 engineer is porting coreboot to newer AMD Zen systems

By Liam Dawe,
System76 have begun providing more AMD based hardware for Linux enthusiasts, and the next step in their plan to be as open as possible appears to have begun.

KDE Plasma 5.20 will properly support screen recording on Wayland and more

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team working on the Plasma desktop environment are busy pushing ahead for the 5.20 release due later this year and it's sounding great.

Synergia is a vibrant cyberpunk visual novel that stands out and it's available now

By Liam Dawe,
Admittedly, the Visual Novel genre is not one I go to often but I couldn't resist with Synergia because of the incredible atmosphere and wonderful design work that went into it.

ReplaySorcery is an open source instant-replay solution for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Need a project to easily capture the last 30 seconds of action? ReplaySorcery might just be the open source project that you're looking for.

The 'Old World' update for ScourgeBringer adds a whole new realm

By Liam Dawe,
From the developers of NeuroVoider which also supports Linux, ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer that's seriously fun and it's had a huge upgrade.

GOG have a 'Grand RPG Sale' going on with tons of good games going cheap

By Liam Dawe,
DRM-free store GOG have today launched a Grand RPG Sale and they've filled their store full of sales on some top RPGs, from smaller indie titles to big hitters.

Ron Gilbert, developer of Thimbleweed Park is switching to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Ron Gilbert is a name most in the game industry will know from the likes of Thimbleweed Park, and earlier works like The Cave while at Double Fine and they were even the producer on my all-time favourite RTS Total Annihilation. It appears Gilbert is attempting to switch to Linux.

Mixing together Minesweeper with a roguelite, DemonCrawl is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Therefore Games have announced that their popular roguelite puzzler DemonCrawl is coming to Linux, and it's currently in Beta with a release due in a few weeks.

Looks like Steam is getting a 'Playtest' feature for some developers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are always upgrading the Steam store and it appears another new feature has begun rolling out, at least in a limited form with official playtests.

3D rail shooter 'Ex-Zodiac' is a Kickstarter success and coming to Linux PC

By Liam Dawe,
With inspiration coming from classics like Star Fox, the in-development 3D rail shooter 'Ex-Zodiac' managed to get quite a bit of funding with the Kickstarter now complete.

Strange Brigade, Sniper Elite 4 and SUPERHOT: MCD coming to Stadia

By Liam Dawe,
Google have confirmed even more games coming to Stadia, their Linux-powered game streaming service that works on Linux in a Chromium / Chrome browser.

You can now get the enhanced SpaceChem Community Edition on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
SpaceChem, the classic Zachtronics design-based puzzle game not only got a sweet update recently to improve the tech behind the game, it's also now super easy to grab the updated community version.