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DXVK 1.4 released boosting this Vulkan layer to support D3D 11.4

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Philip Rebohle has pushed out another major release of DXVK, the Vulkan to D3D layer used together in Wine and Steam Play.

Police Stories attempts to offer a different take on the top-down shooter genre

By Liam Dawe,
Police Stories from Mighty Morgan and HypeTrain Digital is officially out now and after a very short delay the Linux version has also been released too.

The Humble Monthly has expanded to add BATTLETECH expansions plus Sonic Mania

By Liam Dawe,
Was BATTLETECH as the only early unlock for the current Humble Monthly not enough for you? Good news, you can now play more right away as they've expanded it.

AMD have delayed the Ryzen 9 3950X and 3rd generation Threadripper until November

By Liam Dawe,
Today, AMD sent out a brief statement about a delay in their 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X and the 3rd generation Threadripper.

Top-down racer Bloody Rally Show looks great in the new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
One racing game I am genuinely excited about is Bloody Rally Show, a top-down racer that looks genuinely good and it has a fresh trailer up to show off recent development progress.

Drawn Down Abyss takes an action platformer and adds in card deck-building for abilities

By Liam Dawe,
Platformers are probably the most common type of game available on any platform and yet, some developers are still able to make them seem a little unique.

Dota 2 is going through multiple big ban waves and some matchmaking changes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are trying to clean up the Dota 2 community and make matchmaking better, with some big changes being done.

Post-apocalyptic road-trip strategy game Overland has officially released, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
After a few years in Early Access on itch.io, Finji have officially released their post-apocalyptic road-trip strategy game Overland.

Hot Lava from Klei Entertainment is in the works for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Just recently Klei Entertainment (Don't Starve, Oxygen Not Included) released their amusing parkour game Hot Lava and it's not only planned for Linux they're actually working on it.

A French court has ruled that Valve should allow people to re-sell their digital games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and game developers have a bit of a fight on their hands here, with a French court ruling that Valve should allow users to re-sell their digital games.

Valve have released two more experiments into Steam Labs

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to be a test subject once again and possibly find some new games to play? Valve have released another two tools enabling you to find something to keep you busy and keep boredom away.

Squad-based zombie apocalypse strategic rogue-lite Deadly Days has officially released

By Liam Dawe,
Deadly Days is a game I've played repeatedly over the course of it being in Early Access, it's good fun and it's officially out now with a big update.

Total War Saga: TROY officially announced and it will be coming to Linux next year

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for fans of strategy games today as Total War Saga: TROY has been officially announced by Creative Assembly and SEGA. It's also getting a Linux port once again from Feral Interactive.

The dev of Rings of Saturn thinks going cross-platform 'paid off'

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in Early Access on itch.io and Steam, the developer of the top-down hard sci-fi space sim ΔV: Rings of Saturn seems to think doing a Linux and Mac build was worth it.

Physics-based space shoot 'em up Hyper Ultra Astronautics allows up to 16 players for total madness

By Liam Dawe,
FRACTiLE Games just released Hyper Ultra Astronautics, a physics-based local multiplayer space shoot 'em with Linux support. It also includes an open source app to turn your phone into a stylish gamepad.

The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)

By Liam Dawe,
Back in early July, Valve announced their work on a new AMD GPU shader compiler for Mesa named ACO and now they're trying to get it pulled into Mesa directly. UPDATED.

Video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe,
The team building the free and open source video capture and livestreaming software, OBS Studio, have announced the 24.0 release.

Valve have already begun tweaking the new Steam Library Beta

By Liam Dawe,
With the new Steam Library Beta now available for everyone to test, Valve have started tweaking it based on feedback.

The delightfully weird adventure Little Misfortune has released

By Liam Dawe,
From the creator of Fran Bow and sharing the same world comes another slightly strange adventure with Little Misfortune, out today with Linux support.

Steam Play gets a small update with Proton 4.11-5 now available

By Liam Dawe,
CodeWeavers and Valve have updated Steam Play once again, this time it's quite a small release to fix up some issues.