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Google Stadia Pro games for December, Buddy Pass is live and new hires - a roundup

By Liam Dawe,
Google are pushing forward with their game streaming service Stadia, here's a little roundup of what they've been doing recently.

SDL is expanding gamepad support with 8Bitdo SN30 Pro, Google Stadia and more

By Liam Dawe,
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) the awesome cross-platform development library used by Valve, Feral Interactive, Unity, MonoGame, FNA, DOSBox and so many more is expanding.

MOLEK-SYNTEZ from Zachtronics is now DRM-free on GOG and it's great

By Liam Dawe,
Combine and convert ordinary industrial chemicals into a variety of small molecules with various pharmacological effects in MOLEK-SYNTEZ, the latest puzzle sim from Zachtronics. Now available on GOG!

DRM-free store GOG have started up their own big Black Friday sale

By Liam Dawe,
No store will miss an opportunity to run a big sale now of course, we already have Steam and Humble Store running their own and now the DRM-free store GOG has a massive sale too.

Tactical top-down shooter Police Stories now has online multiplayer on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After having a bit of a rough patch with the online support in Police Stories, the team at Mighty Morgan and HypeTrain Digital have now rolled out the feature in the Linux version.

Checking up on the latest huge updates to sci-fi mining game, Rings of Saturn

By scaine,
ΔV: Rings of Saturn continues to expand, adding new POIs, crew, upgrades and more in their latest series of updates.

Love the classics? The Atari Vault has added 50 more retro titles with a new DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Sometimes you just can't beat the classics, if you feel like that and love the old Atari games this is for you.

The Shadow & The Blade pack announced for Total War: WARHAMMER II

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: WARHAMMER II is set to expand again with another Legendary Lords Pack, this time it's The Shadow & The Blade and it actually sounds like it includes quite a lot for one of their smaller packs.

Heroes Of Avranche, a new action RPG is heading to Linux in early December

By Liam Dawe,
The endless dungeons await in Heroes Of Avranche, an Early Access action RPG that's going to appear on December 3 on Steam.

Lutris game manager 0.5.4 released with Python 3.8 support and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Managing games across multiple stores, emulators and compatibility layers doesn't need to be a hassle. Lutris takes the majority of that annoyance away and a big new release is now available.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-9 is out with a few fixes, plus a new release of Proton GE

By Liam Dawe,
Two Steam Play updates to share this morning! The official Proton was updated to Proton 4.11-9 and Proton GE 4.20-1 is also up.

The unique online RPG Book of Travels from the dev of Shelter has been funded

By Liam Dawe,
Not exactly surprising to see but Book of Travels, the unique small online RPG from Shelter developer Might and Delight has been fully funded over on Kickstarter so that's another game coming to Linux.

The ridiculously large Stardew Valley 1.4 update is out

By Liam Dawe,
Stardew Valley, that relaxing and colourful game about taking over a worn-down farm just had a big 1.4 update release with a ton of new content and bug fixes.

Football Story sounds like an incredibly weird mix with a story-based campaign and competitive multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
From publisher Crytivo (The Universim) and Russian developer Fructus Temporum we have Football Story, an incredible intriguing Football adventure game with a narrative campaign and competitive multiplayer matches.

Quake II RTX got an update to further improve the graphical fidelity

By Liam Dawe,
It seems NVIDIA aren't quite done with Quake II RTX, seemingly now using it as a testing area to keep pushing more advanced features for ray tracing.

Dota Underlords also got a huge update with a new Knockout game mode and multiple heroes

By Liam Dawe,
It's not just Dota 2 seeing a massive upgrade, as Valve also pushed out The Outlanders Update for Dota Underlords as well with a new fast game mode and a better on-boarding experience for new players.

Dota 2 just got massive overhaul with The Outlanders Update

By Liam Dawe,
The Outlanders Update has arrived for Dota 2, with it introducing new heroes and some pretty big changes to the gameplay.

The big Steam Autumn Sale is now live, time to nominate for the Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have today started the big Autumn Sale with tons of ridiculously good deals. On top of that, the Steam Awards have returned so it's time to make your nominations.

Some thoughts on Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power

By Hamish,
To say that I began playing Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power with low expectations would be an understatement. Immediately put off by the 3D viewpoint, the game acquired such a poor reputation that Frozenbyte went as far as to publicly apologize to quell a significant fan backlash. Four years on though, how does Trine 3 fare as a game?

The colourful roguelike Tangledeep goes deeper again with the Dawn of Dragons DLC

By Liam Dawe,
The second full expansion to Tangledeep is out, adding in amongst other things some super powerful boss monsters for you to test your abilities against.