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Literary mystery adventure 'Sarawak' announced, developed on Linux - releasing early 2021

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Ready to do a deep-dive into a new text-adventure? Sarawak definitely rises high on my curiosity scale with gameplay split between interactive narrative choices and image-based puzzles.

The classic Escape Velocity: Override is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Escape Velocity: Override, something of a classic from the 90s is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override and it's seeking funding on Kickstarter.

Linux game launcher 'GameHub' has a brand new release, with game tweaking support

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

GameHub is another game launcher available for Linux, one we've talked briefly about before, and it just recently had quite a nice looking update.

Gain fame as well as fortune as Tropico 6 goes social with the Spitter DLC that's out today

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Tropico 6 always leans on the side of silliness and it appears the latest DLC for this strategy / city-builder is taking aim at social networks. The Tropico 6 - Spitter DLC is out today.

Get ready to putt as 'Golf With Your Friends' releases on May 19

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Blacklight Interactive and Team17 have announced that their super fun casual sports game, Golf With Your Friends, is leaving Early Access on May 19.

Dead Cells expands with the 'Bestiary Update' adding in six new enemies and new item affixes

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Evil Empire & Motion Twin have updated the excellent Dead Cells again, after release a Half-Life themed patch last month, the larger 'Bestiary Update' is out now.

Latest Steam Beta has Linux fixes plus (speculation) possible Steam Rewards, Subscriptions and Cloud Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Recently, Valve released another fresh Steam Beta and it does include some handy Linux fixes but it seems they have some more exciting changes upcoming.

With a demon trapped in a weird tiny body, the 2.5D platformer 'WarriOrb' is out on April 28

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2020

Play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body - a talking ball with agile limbs. Weird right? WarriOrb releases in full on April 28.

Old source code for Valve games CS:GO and TF2 ended up leaked online

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2020

Seems the steampipes sprung a bit of a leak recently, as it's been confirmed that both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 had their source code put up online.

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There's now over 6,000 Linux games on Steam plus thousands more playable with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2020

Seven years ago, Valve officially released the Steam client for the Linux desktop and since then the amount of games playable on Linux has continued rising. Thanks to Steam Play Proton, that's grown drastically too.

AMD announces the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X budget processors and a new B550 chipset

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

On a budget? Good news for you, as AMD are expanding their third-gen Ryzen processor list with the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X.

Unique and stylish looking survival adventure 'Help Will Come Tomorrow' released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Help Will Come Tomorrow, a crowdfunded game developed by Arclight Creations, that takes place around the Russian October Revolution is out now.

Paradox are giving away Cities: Skylines - Parklife DLC free until April 26

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Cities: Skylines is pretty much the gold standard of city building on any platforms and it has some good expansions too. One of which, Cities: Skylines - Parklife, can be picked up free.

Serfs is a new in-development medieval RTS that looks promising, it just added Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Currently in development, Serfs, a medieval styled real-time strategy game that feels quite like a city-builder with warfare now has Linux support.

FOSS Ultima 7 game engine 'Exult' has a new big stable update after 16 years

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Ultima 7, what a classic. Released originally back in 1992 it continues to live on thanks to open source. Exult is a FOSS game engine for it and it finally has a fresh release.

Valve details more changes for Artifact 2.0, with expanded single-player content coming

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Valve continue to revamp Artifact behind the scenes for the upcoming re-release with Artifact 2.0 and they've discussed more changes that will come for their Dota themed card game.

Epicinium - a strategy game where nature is a finite resource, to release free and going open source

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Epicinium is a name I've not heard in some time. After a failed Kickstarter in 2018, they're back with their strategy game and the team at A Bunch of Hacks have a new plan for it which includes open source.

With tons of weapons and turn-based combat that feels real-time 'Fractalis' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Here's your morning dose of pixel art with Fractalis, a new roguelike that's just entered Early Access with some smooth turn-based combat that feels almost real-time.

Minigalaxy, the FOSS Linux client for GOG adds support for Wine

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

While GOG don't support their own Galaxy client on Linux (yet?), work continues by the community on Minigalaxy, a streamlined free and open source Linux client for GOG.