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Svoboda 1945 is a historical follow up to Attentat 1942 and will support Linux at launch

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

Created with the help of professional historians, Svoboda 1945 tells the story of the events that followed the end of the Second World War in a small Czech village. By uncovering the past, players can explore the experiences of those who survived the war.

Monster Sanctuary’s newest update adds a new area and story arc

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

The Early Access monster-catching title continues to improve. The newest update to Monster Sanctuary adds not only a new area but quality-of-life changes and a few other new features.

Godot Engine to get various improvements thanks to the Google Summer of Code program

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

The open source Godot game engine is a really amazing project that’s quickly becoming even more amazing. Development continues unabated and, thanks to dedicated programmers, there’s plenty to look forward to in the works.

EVERSPACE 2 continues to shape up in Alpha, shows off second star system

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

The rather pretty open-world space action sim from ROCKFISH games looks to be steadily improving as it nears Beta quality. The developers have shown the adjustments made in response to feedback as well as new content they hope to add soon.

PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 continues to show improvements in latest progress report

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

The quest for better emulation is never quite done, it seems. The open source PS2 emulator saw its first major stable release in years a few months ago and since then more exciting stuff has been under development.

In Blood is an upcoming visual novel about toxic relationships and lovecraftian horror

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

Ever wondered what it would be like to make a blood pact with an ancient god? In Blood will explore the consequences of an accidental encounter as the protagonist struggles to balance her impulses and retain her humanity.

Godhood to ascend Early Access on August 11

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

After about a year, the auto-battling god game is close to launching out of Early Access. There’s a few new features leading up to the full release as well.

Vulnerability found in GRUB2 bootloader, nicknamed ‘BootHole’, compromising Secure Boot

By BTRE, 29 Jul 2020

Users of the popular bootloader may want to update their systems in order to mitigate the danger of this new exploit.

Free and open source 3D creation suite Blender gets funding from Microsoft

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

It feels like FOSS is on a roll lately, with more and more great open source applications seeing funding from big names. Blender is back in the spotlight again, with backing from Microsoft.

Cult classic Beneath a Steel Sky is finally available free on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

It's hard to believe that until now, Beneath a Steel Sky wasn't available on Steam. With the launch of the sequel Beyond a Steel Sky recently, Revolution Software decided to fix that.

Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward gets a big free expansion

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

Currently in Early Access, Wayward is a wilderness survival roguelike from developer Unlok and the 9th major update is out now with the Seafarer expansion.

Event-driven open source game engine GDevelop adds a live preview feature

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

GDevelop is an in-development free and open source game engine, one that is powered by a drag and drop event system and it continues bringing in new and fun features.

Take a walk and take some nice snaps in Shutter Stroll

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

Shutter Stroll, a walking sim about taking nice photographs across hundreds of generated islands is a pretty sweet experience for when you want to properly relax.

Steam has a sale on to celebrate Swiss Games and Developers

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

If it wasn't enough that there's multiple good Humble Bundles going on, and a big RPG sale on GOG - Valve have launched a sale to celebrate Swiss Games.

AMD confident in Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs launching in 2020

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

Another quarterly earnings report is out from AMD, along with the usual conference call and it seems all is going well over in camp AMD.

The Humble Raw Fury 2020 Bundle is out with some sweet gaming action

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

Another game bundle has been released today with the Humble Raw Fury 2020 Bundle and there's some good looking Linux games included with it.

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

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

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, 28 Jul 2020

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, 28 Jul 2020

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, 28 Jul 2020

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.