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Time to uncork and unwind as the sixth release candidate for Wine 4.0 is out

By Liam Dawe,
As expected, another bug-fix release is out as progress towards the final release of Wine 4.0 approaches.

Hellshots Golf is basically Doom Golf and it's somewhat amusing

By Liam Dawe,
Always interested to see what silly (and sometimes amazing) things people do with Doom, enter Hellshots Golf.

The fun and challenging action-RPG 'Mana Spark' can now be found on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
While it's had Linux support for a few months and has been available on other stores, today GOG have added the action-RPG Mana Spark.

SuperTuxKart 0.10 beta is out with online multiplayer and it's looking good

By Liam Dawe,
SuperTuxKart, the free and open source racing game has hit the beta stage with the 0.10 release that's now available.

Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a fun statistic for you today! Steam Play, Valve's fork of Wine which includes DXVK has recently hit 500 titles rated as "Platinum" when going by ProtonDB reports.

Epic and Improbable are taking advantage of Unity with the SpatialOS debacle, seems a little planned

By Liam Dawe,
As an update to the ongoing saga between Improbable and Unity in regards to SpatialOS, Epic Games have now jumped in to take advantage of it.

Grab a free copy of 'A Story About My Uncle' in the Humble Store Winter Sale that's now live

By Liam Dawe,
Oh goodie, more sales of awesome Linux games for you and another free game for you to be able to claim.

We Need To Go Deeper could be a lot of fun but it needs to do a better job at everything

By Liam Dawe,
With thanks to a supporter, I was gifted a copy of We Need To Go Deeper. It's a 2-4 player co-op submarine roguelike and it's pretty rough.

Unity have changed their terms of service, which has essentially blocked SpatialOS and streaming services

By Liam Dawe,
While not directly related to Linux gaming, this is still some interesting news to be aware of for those working with the Unity game engine.

One Step From Eden, an action-packed deck-building roguelike plans Linux support (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the likes of Nuclear Throne, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain and more One Step From Eden looks like a promising action-packed deckbuilding roguelike.

Vintage Story, the moddable survival and building game had a big update

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story might look a lot like Minecraft but it's a very different beast and it just recently had a rather big update.

Snowtopia, an in-development ski resort sim to keep an eye on has Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
One game that could be worth keeping an eye on is the ski resort building and management sim Snowtopia.

CHKN, the weird yet surprisingly engrossing survival game has been updated although it's having a few issues

By Liam Dawe,
When I recently talked about the big update to the survival game CHKN, I was very impressed with the game mechanics and style. However, performance was an issue.

Kontrakt, a hyper-violent action-adventure finally works properly on newer Linux distributions

By Liam Dawe,
Kontrakt actually released back in October last year, sadly it only supported older distributions but this is now fixed so I've taken a look.

The developer of Smith and Winston made an interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms

By Liam Dawe,
I recently talked about the Steam release of Smith and Winston but I didn't realise until late last night, that the developer actually made a very interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms.

Abstract Hell is like a twin-stick shooter Pac-Man and it's a lot of fun

By Liam Dawe,
Abstract Hell from developer Nathan Best released recently with Linux support and it's really quite good.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019

By Liam Dawe,
Something that could be rather exciting for AMD enthusiasts, AMD has officially revealed the AMD Radeon VII at CES 2019. On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming.

Spinnortality, a cyberpunk management sim with an aim of becoming immortal is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a surprise turned up in my inbox recently. Spinnortality, a cyberpunk management sim that looks really good is releasing with Linux support next month.

Happy Room, a game of completely mindless fun that works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Happy Room, a game you might not have heard of and you will be forgiven for that (I hadn't either) as it released in 2016. Turns out, they added a Linux version just after release so we completely missed it. A bit of a warning though, it's certainly not one to show a younger audience.

Eastshade, the open world adventure where you're a travelling artist has a new trailer and release date

By Liam Dawe,
Eastshade certainly looks like a wonderfully peaceful experience and the new trailer show it off rather well, it's releasing soon too on February 13th.