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

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

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, 20 Apr 2020

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, 20 Apr 2020

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.

ATOM RPG Trudograd entering Early Access in May - Linux version to come shortly after

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

ATOM RPG Trudograd is a standalone sequel to the successfully crowdfunded (and since released) ATOM RPG. While you don't need to have played the first, they are suggesting you do.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

Time to get building a massive theme park, as OpenRCT2 for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems with an enhanced feature-set has a new release up.

Manjaro needs testers for the upcoming Manjaro GNOME 20.0 release - Snap and Flatpak support OOTB

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

Manjaro Linux is getting ready for their major release, and they're looking for your help to make sure the GNOME edition for Manjaro GNOME 20.0 is as smooth as possible.

Direct 3D to Vulkan layer 'DXVK' 1.6.1 release out with plenty of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

DXVK when paired up with Wine (and integrated in Steam Play Proton) translates Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan enabling better performance on Linux for a lot of Windows games. Today, a brand new release went up.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers) is a brand of special hardware primarily aimed at PC gaming and work is now underway by the community to better support their laptops on Linux.

The 'GameMode' performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

As possibly the last feature to be accepted and implemented before the big release, Feral Interactive's GameMode performance tool has been added officially into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Godot Engine powers up GLES2 with batching coming in Godot 3.2.2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

With a big release behind them this year with Godot 3.2, and while Vulkan support is being worked on for Godot 4.0, the team is also hard at work to improve the current version further.

NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out - further polishing Ray Tracing support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2020

Today NVIDIA put out a brand new Vulkan Beta driver, as they continue to expand the capabilities of Vulkan Ray Tracing with a bunch of fixes.

A look over all the goodies on sale (and free) for Linux gaming fans this weekend

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2020

It's another weekend, although you will be completely forgiven for having no idea what day it is. I don't remember half the time right now as it's all blurring into one during lockdown. Here's a look over what you can get cheap and free right now.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now beaten the all-time player record of Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

Four years ago, Valve's free to play MOBA Dota 2 hit 1,295,114 concurrent players and today it's finally been beaten by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Build a mighty empire and help a needy Fish God in 'Merchant of the Skies' out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

Merchant of the Skies from Coldwild Games has you sail through the skies and build up a huge trading empire, and it's out today with a whole lot of new features.

Kingdom Two Crowns free update 'Dead Lands' arrives April 28 - Bloodstained crossover

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

Kingdom Two Crowns from Noio, Coatsink and publisher Raw Fury is set to expand with a free update on all platforms on April 28.

KnotBot, a very sweet looking programming-puzzle game involving knots and strings

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

KnotBot might be one of the sweetest looking puzzle-programming type of games I've ever seen. A game where you give a little robot directions across a bunch of hand-crafted levels.

GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.

Indivisible adds drop-in co-op for up to 4 players and a New Game Plus mode

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

Indivisible, the action RPG platformer from Lab Zero Games (Skullgirls) can now be played with others in local co-op making it quite a different experience. Plus a New Game Plus mode if you enjoy pain.

Turns out The Butcher's Circus expansion for Darkest Dungeon will be FREE - plus more details

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

Earlier this month we reported on Darkest Dungeon getting a new online PvP DLC named The Butcher’s Circus, well it turns out it's going to be free and they've given more details.

Linux distribution 'Pop!_OS' has a Beta release for the upcoming 20.04 with automatic window tiling

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution based on Ubuntu from the folks at System76 is also getting in on the fun with a Beta release of the upcoming Pop!_OS 20.04.