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The Jackbox Party Pack 6 is coming later this year with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for more excellent party games? The Jackbox Party Pack 6 is coming later this year and Jackbox Games, Inc. will be continuing to support Linux with this latest pack.

The Steam Library overhaul is finally coming in Beta this month (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have officially announced that the Beta for the overhaul of the Steam Library is coming on September 17th. UPDATED, see the bottom.

Haunted maze game Phantom 3D has been released

By Liam Dawe,
Graverobber Foundation, developer of cyberpunk dungeon crawler Das Geisterschiff is back with a new game called Phantom 3D.

Jupiter Hell continues advancing as a seriously fun action-packed roguelike

By Liam Dawe,
ChaosForge are truly onto something special with Jupiter Hell, a roguelike that doesn't really feel like one and each update just makes it even more awesome to play.

Colourful retro arcade inspired shoot 'em up Laservasion is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Red Phoenix Studios recently released Laservasion, a retro inspired arcade styled shoot 'em up with Linux support. It's pretty darn colourful once you get into it.

Adventure and strategy RPG Pathway is getting a big free update, some of it has been teased

By Liam Dawe,
Pathway released back in April and it's a lot of fun but one thing was certain after playing it for a lot longer, it did get repetitive. A big free update is coming soon and it's sounding good.

Doom 4 Vanilla is the latest crazy Doom game pack inspired by 2016's DOOM

By Liam Dawe,
This is quite amazing. I never grow tired of seeing what people in the Doom modding community are able to achieve.

The Dragon Clan have entered Armello with a new DLC

By Liam Dawe,
The cast of Armello has grown bigger with the newly released The Dragon Clan DLC adding in four new characters.

Fluid Simulation is one of the most mesmerising things I've seen in a while

By Liam Dawe,
Fluid Simulation is something you all need to try out for a few minutes to de-stress. A nice casual experience for a tired mind perhaps.

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

By Liam Dawe,
Another month has come and go and so ProtonDB, the super handy unofficial tracker for Steam Play compatibility ratings has released another data dump.

The Humble RPG Bundle seems like a really great deal for Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
In the mood for some new games? Well Humble Bundle are back again for your monies, this time with The Humble RPG Bundle.

Little Misfortune from the developer of Fran Bow is releasing this month

By Liam Dawe,
After releasing a demo with Linux support back in April, the dark adventure game Little Misfortune now has a release date of September 18th.

The FOSS racer Yorg has recently released a big update with local multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
Always great to see free and open source games continue to mature. The racing game Yorg just recently put out a big a new release and it's coming along nicely.

Village construction and management simulator MicroTown is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Snowy Ash Games just recently released MicroTown, a pixel art village construction and management simulator.

GTA-inspired Battle Royale game Geneshift just got a pretty big makeover

By Liam Dawe,
Geneshift is really looking slick with the latest major update now available, completely overhauling the menu and the way you unlock everything. Overall, it's a huge improvement.

openblack is a FOSS game engine for Black & White currently under development

By Liam Dawe,
How about a little open source to start your Tuesday morning? Work is going into the openblack project, to create a modern open source game engine for Black & White (2001).

Playing DOSBox games on Steam for Linux just got better with another release of Boxtron

By Liam Dawe,
Boxtron is another Steam Play tool we briefly talked about at the beginning of this month, enabling you to play almost any DOSBox game on Steam for Linux.

Want a more up to date Proton for Steam Play? Proton GE has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe,
There's no need to wait for Valve and CodeWeavers to update Proton for Steam Play, if you're willing to do a little bit of extra work with a custom build like Proton GE.

A big new release of the RTS Warzone 2100 has finally made it out the door

By Liam Dawe,
Warzone 2100, a proper classic real-time strategy game that's open source just had the first update in some years.

Godot Engine continues advancing the Vulkan rendering system, 3D work has begun

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky has another progress report up on the status of moving over to Vulkan and it's sounding great.