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Want a copy of Slay the Spire? Enter our competition

By Liam Dawe,
Slay the Spire, the absolutely brilliant fusion of a roguelike and a deck-building card game released with Linux support in January, now is your chance to win a copy.

Looks like we might see the end of developers constantly changing their Steam release date

By Liam Dawe,
Steam isn't perfect, that's for sure and one particular issue that constantly comes up is how some developers have been abusing the release date display.

This War of Mine has a third narrative-driven episode now available with Fading Embers

By Liam Dawe,
11 bit studios have today released This War of Mine: Stories - Fading Embers, the third episode in their narrative-driven expansion set to the popular survival game.

Sweet indie RTS "The Fertile Crescent" adds female villagers, better AI and improved performance

By Liam Dawe,
Currently free during Alpha, The Fertile Crescent looks a bit like a retro Age of Empires and the development team continue advancing it.

The upcoming forgotten video game world "Village Monsters" has a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Village Monsters lets you step into a video game world, one long-forgotten and it finally has a new trailer to show off all the progress that has been made.

Triangulum is a minimalist logic puzzle game now out with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Perhaps you need something new to relax with while you're having a coffee break or you want to test your mind a little, without much stressing. Triangulum could fit there.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 continues to show off amazing progress, June's report is up

By Liam Dawe,
The RPCS3 team continue hacking away at their code for this impressive PlayStation 3 emulator and they've reached another milestone.

A look at how Steam Play is doing, based on the ProtonDB reports from July

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing our monthly look over the data dumps provided by ProtonDB, the unofficial reports website for tracking how well Steam Play games run, here's the July 2019 instalment.

DXVK 1.3.2 is out as a small and focused stability update to this Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Philip Rebohle has put out a new point release of the Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation for Wine, with DXVK 1.3.2 now up.

Crazy-looking third-person action beat 'em up MADNESS: Project Nexus is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
MADNESS: Project Nexus popped up on Steam recently and this mix of a running, gunning and beat 'em up is planning to support Linux when it releases later this year.

I got shot in the head in Kindergarten 2 and helped a janitor declare war, it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Kindergarten 2 from Con Man Games and SmashGames is a thoroughly odd game, one where Kindergarten is a very dangerous place.

Simple and relaxing trading sim "Merchant of the Skies" has entered Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Merchant of the Skies from Latvian developer Coldwild Games just recently entered Early Access, it's a strangely relaxing trading sim.

Laservasion looks like a nice twist on Asteroids with great music and colourful visuals

By Liam Dawe,
Laservasion is the next game from Red Phoenix Studios (prev. Poly Towns, A New World: Kingdoms), a shoot 'em up that resembles the classic Asteroids only it seems to get a lot more intense.

Co-op submarine adventure roguelike "We Need To Go Deeper" officially released

By Liam Dawe,
After over two years of Early Access, the silly co-op roguelike submarine adventure We Need To Go Deeper has released.

Collabora detail more work going into Monado, their open source OpenXR runtime

By Liam Dawe,
With the 1.0 release of the OpenXR 1.0 specification, Collabora have begun to detail more work going on with Monado their open source OpenXR runtime for Linux.

FOSS game engine "Godot Engine" making fantastic Vulkan API progress

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky continues pushing ahead with Godot's move to Vulkan, with another impressive progress report now available and it all sounds great.

Another SteamVR release is up, further improving the VR experience on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to move at a rapid pace to improve SteamVR across all platforms, especially with the Valve Index being so new there's plenty of teething issues to address.

The developer of Gloomhaven wants to see what kind of demand there is for Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Gloomhaven, the digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game recently entered Steam's Early Access program and it appears the developer Flaming Fowl Studios continued to be open about Linux support.

What have you been clicking on this weekend?

By Liam Dawe,
The weekend is almost over and a nice week full of news is about to begin. Before it does, let's get talking! What have you been playing?

Futuristic lonely single-player survival game "Drift Into Eternity" adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
As the only survivor of a distressed long-haul spaceship, you're trapped and faced with a failing ship. It's do or die.