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May the Fourth be with you - a look over what Star Wars games are playable on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2020

Today is May 4th, which means it's also Star Wars day so here's a look at what Star Wars games are possible to play on Linux plus a quick run over the sales to pick up some discounted pew-pew fun.

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Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2020

OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.

Godot Engine has more impressive progress towards Vulkan API support

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2020

Godot Engine is free, open source, cross-platform in both editor and exports and the next major update will bring in Vulkan API support and progress sounds great.

What are you clicking on this weekend? Come have a chat in the comments

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2020

Another week down, most of us are still in lockdown with the Coronavirus and there's plenty of time to play games.

Team Fortress 2 gets a nice tribute to Rick May, plus a few minor fixes

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2020

Rick May, voice of The Soldier in Team Fortress 2 died earlier this year and now Valve has added a small dedication to May in Team Fortress 2.

Valve has delayed The International tournament for Dota 2 and it may not happen until 2021

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2020

As health concerns continue worldwide, Valve has done the expected and delayed the next championship tournament The International for Dota 2.

Monster-catching, dungeon-crawling RPG 'Siralim Ultimate' hits Kickstarter - funded in 1 hour

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2020

Thylacine Studios have launched the Kickstarter for Siralim Ultimate, a monster-catching RPG mixed with dungeon crawling and it's been quite a hit.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Valve and CodeWeavers have released the latest version of the Proton compatibility layer for Steam Play today.

Humble Choice for May gives out XCOM 2, Rise of Industry and more

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

The latest monthly Humble Choice has been revealed today and with it a fresh selection of good games to pick from.

Zoria: Age of Shattering Prologue is a promising early look at an upcoming tactical party-based RPG

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Zoria: Age of Shattering Prologue is a chance to try out a new in-development party-based tactical RPG, as it's out now with Linux support.

FNA 20.05 (XNA4 reimplementation) is out with a brand new 3D graphics library 'FNA3D'

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Ethan Lee, porter of many games to Linux (and macOS) and the creator of the XNA4 reimplementation FNA today announced the release of FNA 20.05 and a brand new 3D graphics library FNA3D.

Nimbatus - Drone Creator allows you to test building drones free and use in the full game

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Nimbatus is a really fun game that mixes in building drones (autonomous or otherwise) and now you can try it free, using the Nimbatus - Drone Creator that just released.

Silmaris: Dice Kingdom will have you rule over a kingdom using dice

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Silmaris: Dice Kingdom caught my attention recently when it was announced this week, a story-based game full of random events where you're trying to restore your kingdom using...dice.

Challenging platformer WarriOrb where you're a weaponized talking ball is out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

With a most unusual protagonist, the action-platform WarriOrb released recently and it very much looks to be worth a play through.

Roots of Pacha brings the village farming RPG sim back to the stone age

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

You've played modern life farming sims, you've played high fantasy versions but what about one set in prehistorical times? Roots of Pacha is coming to Linux from Soda Den and Crytivo.

Stadia Pro games for May are up with Zombie Army 4: Dead War, The Turing Test and SteamWorld Heist

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Google continue to expand the Linux-powered game streaming service, Stadia, with a fresh set of games you can claim today with Stadia Pro.

The amazing Streets of Rogue gains six new fun sounding characters in a first DLC

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Streets of Rogue, one of the best games of last year, just had the first proper DLC release with a Character Pack that adds in some really fun sounding character types.

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" due in June with fractional HiDPI scaling, brighter icons and better performance

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

The team behind popular Linux distribution Linux Mint have a monthly update out to go over what their plans are and their funding, and it's all sounding great.

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2020

Today Valve made quite a big announcement about the future of VR, including an entire platform being dropped.

Linux distribution Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS from System76 is out now with awesome Auto Tiling

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2020

Hardware vendor System76 have just released Pop!_OS 20.04, their Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 20.04 with all their fancy tweaks and it's a brilliant release.