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Xbox One controller wireless on Linux gets better with 'xow' release 0.4

By Liam Dawe,
Xbox One wireless dongle and controller on Linux? Yes it's a thing, people use it and the xow project is making it better and easier than ever.

DXVK the D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer 1.6 update out

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK, the almighty translation layer that takes D3D 9/10/11 and spits out Vulkan, that paired up with Wine allows many Windows-only games to perform will on Linux has a new update out.

Free real-time strategy 'The Fertile Crescent' has a big update focused on overall quality

By Liam Dawe,
The Fertile Crescent, a (currently) entirely free to play real-time strategy that's a little like a retro Age of Empires just had a big update focusing on the overall quality.

Get Mable & The Wood free in the GOG Spring Sale for 48 hours

By Liam Dawe,
During the GOG Spring Sale, they've teamed up with Triplevision Games / Graffiti Games to offer their unique Metroidvania experience free for 48 hours.

Helms of Fury looks like a wonderful and colourful action rogue-lite coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Helms of Fury from developer A Bit Awake was just recently announced as a dungeon crawling rogue-lite with a focus on fast combat, discovering items and combining runes to create insanely powerful builds.

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition has a big update out and new story DLC coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from Beamdog has been updated again, bringing some pretty huge improvements and a great sounding story pack is coming soon.

Dungeon Drafters will bring magical deck-building to Linux now it's funded

By Liam Dawe,
Dungeon Drafters is another Kickstarter success as Manalith Studios' campaign just ended, hitting well over their goal and so the game is coming to Linux.

Non-linear pixel art adventure Alwa's Legacy now launching a bit later

By Liam Dawe,
Alwa's Legacy from Elden Pixels appears to be facing a small delay, as they're no longer aiming for an April release but there's plenty of good news.

New Steam Client Beta up with Linux updates, Valve prepping Proton 5.0-5

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released a new Steam Client Beta which pulls in a couple of Linux improvements and they appear to be preparing a new Proton version with a tweak for Half-Life: Alyx.

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Master now available in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Master from Goblinz Studio enters Early Access today, letting you become the evil overlord of a dungeon. This isn't a Dungeon Keeper styled game though, it works like a turn-based strategy with some management elements.

Cities: Skylines Sunset Harbor expansion announced for March 26

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order have announced Cities: Skylines Sunset Harbor, a brand new expansion for the massively popular city-builder to release on March 26.

Fast-paced arcade combat-racing with RC cars 'PocketCars' adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Car racing of a miniature sort with RC cars is what's on the track in PocketCars, and it just recently enabled Linux support in their Early Access release.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud and the GOverlay app for managing it both have new releases up

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud, the awesome Linux overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan games has another new release. GOverlay, the FOSS application designed to make configuring MangoHud easy has also been refreshed.

Death and Taxes goes open source after selling 'pretty well' to help others

By Liam Dawe,
Death and Taxes, a narrative game about choosing who lives and who dies as the Grim Reaper is now officially open source.

Imperator: Rome gets more religious in the 1.4 "Archimedes" update due on March 31

By Liam Dawe,
Imperator: Rome, the grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios about the classical world will soon have a little more depth to the religion features in the 1.4 "Archimedes" update now due on March 31.

Dodge Roll confirm 'Exit the Gungeon' is coming to Linux once the launch has settled

By Liam Dawe,
Exit the Gungeon from Dodge Roll/Singlecore and Devolver Digital is a small, spin-off 'dungeon climber' immediately following the adventures in the excellent Enter the Gungeon.

Privacy-focused Linux vendor Purism announces the stylish Librem Mini

By Liam Dawe,
Purism aren't a company we cover here often, as their devices aren't usually gaming related. However, they did just announce a mini-PC that looks and sounds rather lovely called the Librem Mini.

Linux hardware vendor System76 will have their own Keyboard out this year

By Liam Dawe,
System76 do a lot of things, they've steadily grown to a point where they make their own desktops and now they're expanding further into making more hardware.

Steam Game Festival live with demos and the Interactive Recommender is up for all

By Liam Dawe,
Two bits of Steam store news today: firstly there's a Steam Game Festival "Spring Edition" going on to highlight some good looking games, a few of which will come to Linux and there's some demos. Plus the Interactive Recommender leaves Steam Labs.

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release

By Liam Dawe,
Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer.