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Dead Cells expands with the 'Bestiary Update' adding in six new enemies and new item affixes

By Liam Dawe,
Evil Empire & Motion Twin have updated the excellent Dead Cells again, after release a Half-Life themed patch last month, the larger 'Bestiary Update' is out now.

Latest Steam Beta has Linux fixes plus (speculation) possible Steam Rewards, Subscriptions and Cloud Gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, Valve released another fresh Steam Beta and it does include some handy Linux fixes but it seems they have some more exciting changes upcoming.

With a demon trapped in a weird tiny body, the 2.5D platformer 'WarriOrb' is out on April 28

By Liam Dawe,
Play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body - a talking ball with agile limbs. Weird right? WarriOrb releases in full on April 28.

Old source code for Valve games CS:GO and TF2 ended up leaked online

By Liam Dawe,
Seems the steampipes sprung a bit of a leak recently, as it's been confirmed that both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 had their source code put up online.

There's now over 6,000 Linux games on Steam plus thousands more playable with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Seven years ago, Valve officially released the Steam client for the Linux desktop and since then the amount of games playable on Linux has continued rising. Thanks to Steam Play Proton, that's grown drastically too.

AMD announces the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X budget processors and a new B550 chipset

By Liam Dawe,
On a budget? Good news for you, as AMD are expanding their third-gen Ryzen processor list with the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X.

Unique and stylish looking survival adventure 'Help Will Come Tomorrow' released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Help Will Come Tomorrow, a crowdfunded game developed by Arclight Creations, that takes place around the Russian October Revolution is out now.

Paradox are giving away Cities: Skylines - Parklife DLC free until April 26

By Liam Dawe,
Cities: Skylines is pretty much the gold standard of city building on any platforms and it has some good expansions too. One of which, Cities: Skylines - Parklife, can be picked up free.

Serfs is a new in-development medieval RTS that looks promising, it just added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development, Serfs, a medieval styled real-time strategy game that feels quite like a city-builder with warfare now has Linux support.

FOSS Ultima 7 game engine 'Exult' has a new big stable update after 16 years

By Liam Dawe,
Ultima 7, what a classic. Released originally back in 1992 it continues to live on thanks to open source. Exult is a FOSS game engine for it and it finally has a fresh release.

Valve details more changes for Artifact 2.0, with expanded single-player content coming

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to revamp Artifact behind the scenes for the upcoming re-release with Artifact 2.0 and they've discussed more changes that will come for their Dota themed card game.

Epicinium - a strategy game where nature is a finite resource, to release free and going open source

By Liam Dawe,
Epicinium is a name I've not heard in some time. After a failed Kickstarter in 2018, they're back with their strategy game and the team at A Bunch of Hacks have a new plan for it which includes open source.

With tons of weapons and turn-based combat that feels real-time 'Fractalis' enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your morning dose of pixel art with Fractalis, a new roguelike that's just entered Early Access with some smooth turn-based combat that feels almost real-time.

Minigalaxy, the FOSS Linux client for GOG adds support for Wine

By Liam Dawe,
While GOG don't support their own Galaxy client on Linux (yet?), work continues by the community on Minigalaxy, a streamlined free and open source Linux client for GOG.

Build up your collection of Paradox DLC with the latest build your own Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Well, this is a little different. Humble Bundle have teamed up with Paradox Interactive to allow you to build your own bundle of DLC for their games.

Into the Breach from Subset Games (FTL) now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Into the Breach, the second title from Subset Games (previously the excellent FTL), has today gained an official Linux build.

Half-Life remake 'Black Mesa' has a post-release hotfix with a little Linux fix included

By Liam Dawe,
Black Mesa, the re-imaging of the original Half-Life released out of Early Access recently after a long development period and it's quite brilliant. Crowbar Collective have now release the first proper post-release hotfix.

Award winning mobile game 'The Battle of Polytopia' is getting an updated release for PC

By Liam Dawe,
The Battle of Polytopia, a very successful and award winning turn based strategy game is confirmed to be coming to PC and it will have Linux support.

Exploration, mining and crafting RPG 'Aground' has left Early Access to reach for the stars

By Liam Dawe,
Aground from Fancy Fish Games / SnöBox Studio and publisher Whitethorn Digital, a crafting RPG that steadily grows more complex has left Early Access.

OpenRA has a new test release, plus the OpenRA powered RTS 'Fractured Realms' has a pre-release

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the free and open source real-time strategy game engine for playing classic Westwood games has a new testing release up. Additionally, Fractured Realms, a game powered by OpenRA tech has a pre-release.