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Unity Technologies announce 'Open Projects', building games in Unity that are open source

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This is brilliant! Unity Technologies creators of the Unity game engine, which is ridiculously popular with indie developers, have started a series of open source game development projects.

Block-matching puzzle battler 'Aloof' has a demo up ahead of the Steam Festival

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Inspired in parts by Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Puyo Puyo Tetris with its own unique spin on block-matching battles, Aloof has a demo up now.

Funny physics-based goblin-slaying puzzler 'Sword Slinger' is out on October 20

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Sword Slinger is a unique physics-based puzzle game about slaying goblins by controlling a sword with magical behaviours. You'll combine chains of magical behaviours together to create complex and original solutions.

Economic management tower-defense puzzler 'Rip Them Off' is out now

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Rip Them Off is a fresh puzzle game that in a small way resembles tower defence, with you trying to make as much money from people passing by as you can.

Dying Light - Hellraid gets its first major post-release update with Lord Hector's Demise

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Lord Hector's Demise is the name of the first major free update to Dying Light - Hellraid, the dungeon-crawling DLC for the open-world zombie smasher from Techland.

Zombie Panic! Source gets a huge overhaul with Linux support really soon

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After being in Beta for quite some time now, the team behind Zombie Panic! Source are almost ready to push out the big overhaul with Linux support into the stable version for everyone.

Steam has a Digital Tabletop Festival starting October 21

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Love your digital adaptions of board games, or those that got turned into some form of real-life board game? Well, Valve are going to run a festival dedicated to all that.

A look back over some popular articles for September 2020

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Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for September 2020, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

OBS Studio adds in better noise suppression thanks to RNNoise in the 26.0 release out now

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Free and open source video recording and live streaming software OBS Studio version 26.0 is out now.

A bit like Stardew in space, One Lonely Outpost is fully funded and on the way to Linux

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Space, sci-fi and farming - what more could you want? One Lonely Outpost is like Stardew Valley for fans who want something a little bit more out there.

Great news for Transport Fever 2 fans as Vulkan support is coming

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Transport Fever 2 is a much loved transport sim released with same-day Linux support in December 2019, and it's only going to keep getting better.

Episodic horror novel Scarlet Hollow sees a free first episode, Kickstarter soon for more

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Black Tabby Games recently released the first episode of Scarlet Hollow, a horror visual novel and choice-driven adventure game set in the mountains of Appalachia.

Get an early look at the Million Dollar Highway in American Truck Simulator - Colorado

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SCS Software will be launching the American Truck Simulator - Colorado DLC at some point and while work goes on they've released a new teaser. Plus, a big new truck is coming too.

Grand strategy empire builder 'Arcane Fortune' has a new release and it went open source

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Arcane Fortune is a game we briefly highlighted at the start of August as one that is inspired by the likes of Civilization, SimCity and Dwarf Fortress and it's getting bigger again.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

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NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

Dead By Daylight with cross-play releases free for Stadia Pro on October 1 - plus more

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Another fresh set of games have been announced as either newly coming to Stadia or being added to Stadia Pro. One of the exciting titles is Dead By Daylight with full cross-play.

Since release Crusader Kings III has seen over 18 million murders - huge patch out now

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The latest grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios with Crusader Kings III seems to have been a big success and a new rather large patch is out.

Songs of Syx appears to be an early success brewing on Steam

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After releasing into Early Access on Steam on September 21, 2020 - it appears that the grand strategy city-builder Songs of Syx is seeing some early success.

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing gets a major upgrade with new Unity game engine and Vulkan

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Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing, a popular drone racer that's enjoyed by many users on Steam just recently had a massive free upgrade released.

Lenovo announce the sleek ThinkPad X1 Nano that ships with Ubuntu

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Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X1 Nano, a new premium laptop offering which like the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is one of the first to get Intel EVO branding - meaning it's really top stuff.