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Comedy physics-based heist game The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time is out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

Available now in Early Access is the rather long-named The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time, a heist game with Penguin characters and some dubious looking physics but apparently it's quite amusing.

The popular board game Brass: Birmingham gets the digital treatment

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Brass: Birmingham, a popular board game that had a big and successful crowdfunding campaign which was the sequel to Martin Wallace's original game Brass has now been made into a digital game.

ScummVM adds support for Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy and The Journeyman Project 2

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Have time to play some more classics? The latest release of ScummVM might not be out yet but they have announced some more titles will be playable.

Rainbow Six Siege out on Stadia today, more games confirmed and a big 'mega' sale

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2021

Google continue bringing over more and more titles to Stadia, with the next set of Stadia Pro titles revealed too.

Insect Worlds is an upcoming open-world insect exploration game

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

Love creepy-crawlies? Insect Worlds might be one for you to take a look at with a demo available on Steam.

Blue June is an upcoming 2.5D story-driven adventure game

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

Blending together elements of 3D and 2D games, the upcoming story-driven adventure Blue June looks good.

Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) rolls out to everyone and it works on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

We now have yet another serious entry into cloud gaming / game streaming with Microsoft formally launching Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) for everyone with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and it works out of the box on Linux.

Linux Kernel 5.13 rolls out with early Apple M1 support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2021

Another Linux Kernel release is out now with Linux 5.13 bringing with it, amongst plenty of other things, initial and early support for the new Apple M1 chip.

Talking point: what have you been playing recently?

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2021

It's coming to the end of another week so let's all catch up in the comments about what you've been playing recently.

A busy weekend ahead perhaps? Steam Play Proton 6.3-5 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2021

Valve announced the latest version of the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer is out now with 6.3-5. Update - 26/06/21: Proton Experimental also saw an update.

Little Red Dog Games say there's "no reason not to" do Linux versions of games

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2021

Little Red Dog Games developer of Precipice, Deep Sixed and Rogue State Revolution spoke in an interview with Linux hardware vendor System76 about developing games on and for Linux.

Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos gets a big update and exits Early Access on August 25

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2021

Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos, the modern reimagining of the classic roguelike from Assemble Entertainment version 0.9.0 is up as the "Combat Update" and it's set to leave Early Access on August 25.

Tilt Five, an upcoming tabletop holographic gaming system developed with Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2021

This might not technically be Linux gaming but Tilt Five is something you're going to want to keep an eye on.

Hunt down alien life and cook it in Space Chef, coming to Linux and needs Beta testing

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2021

Space Chef from developer Blue Goo Games is planned to be supported on Linux thanks to the Unity game engine, and it looks like it could be quite fun.

Rail network management sim Rail Route is now out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2021

If you think you have what it takes to build and manage a connect network of rail tracks, Rail Route is a game you might want to go and take a look at.

The itch.io Summer Sale is now live

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2021

Ready to pick up something weird and a little unknown? Or a couple of the top indie gems available on itch.io? Now is your chance as their Summer Sale has gone live.

Vulkan 1.2.182 released with extensions to help VR and the OpenGL over Vulkan driver Zink

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2021

Another specification update for Vulkan is out now with Vulkan 1.2.182. As usual it cleans up some issues but it also brings in multiple new and interesting Vulkan extensions.