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The Linux-powered Atari VCS is getting upgraded to AMD Ryzen, shipping dates pushed back

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the Atari VCS, the Linux-powered gaming console? Well it's still alive and they've decided to give it a bit of an upgrade.

The sandbox RPG 'Spoxel' seems like it could be pretty amusing, releasing soon

By Liam Dawe,
Spoxel is an action adventure sandbox RPG that's been in development for a few years now, with it almost about to leave the long and dark development tunnel.

The Linux beta of X4: Foundations has been running nicely, a new update is now out

By Liam Dawe,
Egosoft recently put out the Linux beta of X4: Foundations as promised, it's been running well on Linux and a fresh update is out now too.

GameHub is another open source game launcher, giving Lutris some competition

By Liam Dawe,
Not a fan of Lutris or just want to try something different? GameHub could be a pretty good option for you.

Second Earth, a base-building game from the developer of Broforce has a Linux build

By Liam Dawe,
Broforce is the game from developer Free Lives that made me fall in love with platformers again, can they do the same for base-building tower defense games? Second Earth could be good when further developed.

The latest progress report for PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is looking good

By Liam Dawe,
The RPCS3 team have a huge mountain to climb to get more PlayStation 3 titles playable but it's all coming together now.

Football Story blends a narrative campaign with competitive multiplayer, coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
For those who love their games that involve sports, Football Story sounds like it could be one to watch.

Looks like Battle for Wesnoth is being ported to Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
Battle for Wesnoth, the classic open source turn-based strategy game has been around for a long time and it seems they're going to switch over to the Godot Engine.

SDL2 has pulled in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter

By Liam Dawe,
SDL2, the cross-platform development library has now merged in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter.

Linux Gaming News Punch - Episode 4

By Liam Dawe,
For those who have trouble keeping up with all the happenings, here's another bite-sized round-up of some interesting Linux gaming news recently.

Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam and itch.io with enhancements, some info about Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
It was announced earlier this week that Dwarf Fortress was coming to Steam and itch.io, including a bunch of enhancements. What wasn't clear, was the Linux support for this newer edition. We now have some info on that.

Valve making steps to address 'off-topic review bombs' on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
In a blog post today, Valve announced a pretty simple change to the way Steam games get a review score, to help with review bombing.

Wine 4.4 is now available with more Media Foundation API work

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest from the Wine team is now out. Wine 4.4 continues their biweekly development releases to eventually become Wine 5.0.

Turn-based tactical RPG 'Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark' prepares to leave Early Access with a massive update

By Liam Dawe,
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, a turn-based tactical RPG from 1C Entertainment and 6 Eyes Studio that's supposed to be like a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics is getting ready to leave Early Access.

Feral Interactive have put out a big update to their 'GameMode' Linux gaming performance tool

By Liam Dawe,
We all want to get the best performance out of our Linux games and Feral Interactive's GameMode tool continues to help towards this.

Tactical action game 'Gunslugs:Rogue Tactics' coming to Linux from Orangepixel and it looks awesome

By Liam Dawe,
Orangepixel are working on their next title, a tactical action game going by the name Gunslugs:Rogue Tactics and Linux support is in.

Jetstream looks like a pretty sweet puzzle game, releasing for Linux next month

By Liam Dawe,
Clockwork Acorn revealed yesterday that their rather lovely looking puzzler Jetstream will release on April 2nd, with Linux support right away.

OpenRA for classic Command & Conquer games has a fresh release now out

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the open source game engine for the classics Command & Conquer titles (and a personal favourite) has a brand new release available.

DXVK 1.0.1 is out for Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 with Wine

By Liam Dawe,
Today we have the first bug-fix update for DXVK since the big 1.0 last month. It's not a huge release but as always it's a good one.

Valve announces new networking APIs for developers and Steam Link Anywhere

By Liam Dawe,
Valve is getting ahead of the game with GDC fast approaching, with two bits of Steam news coming in hot today.