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Mindustry, one of the best open source games around has a huge upgrade in testing

By Liam Dawe,
Mindustry, a game that mixes in Factorio with Tower Defence and then goes wild from there is a fantastic example of how good a free and open source game can be.

Free first-person shooter-strategy 'Unvanquished' is now properly open source

By Liam Dawe,
After a long period of silence, it seems a lot was going on behind the scenes for Unvanquished and it's now properly open source all the way through.

Valve developer shows off Gamescope for Linux at XDC 2020

By Liam Dawe,
As we highlighted in our initial XDC 2020 article, one of the presentations this year was from a Valve developer who is working on Gamescope.

Left 4 Dead 2 - The Last Stand releases September 24

By Liam Dawe,
Left 4 Dead 2, the nearly 11 year old shooter from Valve now has a set release date of September 24 for the huge update made along with a community of modders.

Beamdog just gave Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition a big graphical boost

By Liam Dawe,
Beamdog have released the latest development updates to Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition for everyone, and it comes with some wonderful upgrades.

GNOME 3.38 'Orbis' is out now to showcase a modern Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe,
GNOME 3.38 "Orbis" just landed today, which brings in another 6 months of hacking away at all the tech behind the GNOME desktop for a fully modern Linux environment.

Everafter Falls looks like another absolutely charming casual crafting adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Another game coming to Linux that mixes in cute graphics, a casual theme, plenty of crafting and something about eating cards? Everafter Falls looks like another absolutely charming casual crafting adventure.

The new TUXEDO Book XUX7 is an absolute monster desktop-replacement laptop

By Liam Dawe,
While today we had Slimbook offer up good value with their affordable Slimbook Essential, on the complete opposite end we have Tuxedo Computers with their monster TUXEDO Book XUX7.

Free to play strategy Epicinium releases October 12 with a climate change gameplay twist

By Liam Dawe,
Fast turn-based strategy where the map changes along with the climate, Epicinium could be interesting with its fresh take on tactical battles.

Slime Rancher hits 3 million copies sold, gets a big discount

By Liam Dawe,
Slime Rancher is quite possibly one of the sweetest games around, and it's clearly something a lot of people enjoy.

Dicey Dungeons, the innovative and great fun deck-builder has a huge update out

By Liam Dawe,
Mixing together card-based abilities, deck-building and dice - Dicey Dungeons is a fantastic roguelike worth your time and a big update just went out.

The Slimbook Essential is a new affordable Linux laptop line with two models

By Liam Dawe,
When a lot of companies reveal their new Linux hardware, it often ends up being towards the high end. Slimbook have come along to help remedy that with their Slimbook Essential line.

NVIDIA GeForce NOW on Linux can run without user agent spoofing in a browser

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like NVIDIA might be ready for the next push in cloud gaming with their GeForce NOW service, as it's even easier to run it on Linux.

XDC 2020 conference is today - Vulkan Ray Tracing and Vulkan for Raspberry Pi 4

By Liam Dawe,
Today the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC 2020) begins and there's a couple of interesting talks worth checking out, especially if you like to follow OpenGL and Vulkan.

Amnesia: Rebirth from Frictional Games confirmed for launch on October 20

By Liam Dawe,
The latest horror experience from Frictional Games with Amnesia: Rebirth now has an official release date of October 20 with Linux support.

The Humble Better Futures Bundle is up for more budget gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Gaming on a budget? Humble Bundles are a good way to fill your library and there's a new one up with the just launched Humble Better Futures Bundle.

A cancelled old RTS named 'Hard Vacuum' gets revived with OpenRA

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the highly versatile open source game engine you can use to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Dune 2000 and more is bringing a game back from the dead with Hard Vacuum.

GLITCHED is a slick-looking upcoming 2D RPG where an NPC becomes aware of you - the player

By Liam Dawe,
A game where the unexpected hero is an NPC inside a game world that's glitching out so badly the NPC becomes aware of you? GLITCHED sounds pretty wild.

Vibrant twin-stick slasher Breakpoint releases September 24 - you need check it out

By Liam Dawe,
We need to talk about Breakpoint because it's now confirmed to be releasing with Linux support on September 24 and I think you need to put this on your wishlists.

Try the demo for Scrabdackle, a 2D action adventure starring a novice wizard

By Liam Dawe,
You're a wizard, a novice wizard and you appear to have fallen out of a window right into the muck. Time to find your wand and do a little exploration.