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Things are going downhill for the Atari VCS as Rob Wyatt quits

By Liam Dawe,
It's now confirmed that Rob Wyatt, someone who Atari made a big thing over joining them has quit citing non payment of invoices for at least six months.

OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena

By Liam Dawe,
A fun open source game engine project we've not covered here before is OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena and it just had a new release.

Hold onto your humanity as the incredibly stylish Neo Cab is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After some confusion, it turns out Neo Cab from developer Chance Agency and publisher Fellow Traveller will be coming to Linux.

Don't Starve Together launches another big free update with 'Return of them - Salty Dog'

By Liam Dawe,
Easily one of the best and most stylish multiplayer survival games available on Linux, Don't Starve Together has another big free update out with Return of them - Salty Dog.

First-person block-based urban sandbox city-builder 'Voxel Turf' adds new biomes

By Liam Dawe,
Voxel Turf is such a unique gem that blends multiple types of games together. It allows you to run around in first-person, build a city and fight off gangs. A big surprise update just dropped too.

The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from Ubisoft and Epic Games becoming Blender sponsors, NVIDIA have also thrown a bucketful of money into the ring.

The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out

By Liam Dawe,
A day some of our readers have been eagerly awaiting, 7 Days to Die has a big Alpha 18 experimental build available to try.

AMD have announced the Radeon RX 5500 available later this year

By Liam Dawe,
AMD have now formally lifted the lid on their next GPU with the announcement of the Radeon RX 5500 coming later this year.

Amanita Design return to Linux with the surprise new release of Pilgrims

By Liam Dawe,
Amanita Design are the developers of games including Machinarium, Botanicula, Samorost and more. Today, they released Pilgrims, a playful adventure game and it supports Linux.

Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a bit of interesting industry news for you on this fine Monday afternoon. Alen Ladavac, who helped to co-found the Serious Sam and Talos Principle developer Croteam has moved onto game streaming.

Intel giving hints at a possible Intel Xe dedicated GPU release in June 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Raja Koduri from Intel put out a bit of a teaser on Twitter recently for for their upcoming dedicated GPU.

Oxygen Not Included should perform a lot better with the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
While Oxygen Not Included is one of my favourite games to come out in the last year, it did have a few performance issues here and there which the latest update should hopefully solve.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has a big update available with major Linux issues (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Planetary Annihilation Inc continue updating and expanding their massive scale RTS Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with a new major update available.

Story-driven action RPG 'Children of Morta' is still coming to Linux but no ETA

By Liam Dawe,
Children of Morta, a very good looking story-driven action RPG from Dead Mage and 11 bit studios release in early September. It was supposed to have Linux support but they've been pretty quiet on it.

Mixing strategy and RPG elements The Dwarves of Glistenveld is entering Early Access soon

By Liam Dawe,
Dig deep for riches, just not too deep or you might find some Goblins lurking around. The Dwarves of Glistenveld is confirmed to be entering Early Access on October 18th.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine 3.2 Alpha released

By Liam Dawe,
With months of development behind them, Godot Engine 3.2 hits the first Alpha release with a ton of new and improved features for this FOSS game engine.

Throne of Lies ends support for Linux but it could return in future

By Liam Dawe,
Joining Rust, Natural Selection 2 and Forager this year is Throne of Lies from Imperium42 Game Studio who have decided to end Linux support for their online multiplayer game.

The Linux and gaming Sunday round-up paper

By Liam Dawe,
Sunday! It's here again already so let's go over some recent interesting news, some sales and whatever else we may have missed during the week that could be interesting.

A little look over ProtonDB reports for Steam Play in September 2019

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonDB have released another of their monthly data dumps of user reports for Steam Play, so let's take a look over what happened during September.

Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

By Liam Dawe,
Move over Cube World, there's a new open source voxel RPG in town under development called Veloren and it supports Linux too so there's a bonus point for you.