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Team Cherry upgrade the excellent Hollow Knight with Vulkan for Linux
Team Cherry have given their excellent action-platformer metroidvania Hollow Knight a bit of an upgrade, which you can test out on Steam in a fresh Beta test.
Jupiter Hell 0.9.7 'Expanse' is out, full release planned for August 5
After being in Early Access for 18 months following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the brutal and brilliant roguelike Jupiter Hell will leave Early Access on August 5.
Linux lands on Mars with Perseverance and Ingenuity
Here is your morning dose of miscellaneous Linux news. Not gaming but still very cool - Linux has officially landed on Mars with the Perseverance Rover.
Collabora share big progress on the Wine compatibility layer with Wayland
Collabora have shared a great progress update on getting Wine working directly with Wayland, which is going to eventually replace X11 on most Linux distributions.
Portal 2 from Valve gets a big update with Vulkan support from DXVK
Portal 2, the classic first-person puzzle game from Valve available on Steam, just had a huge upgrade come out of nowhere along with Vulkan API support powered by the DXVK project.
Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin free upgrade out now with a Boss Rush Mode
Blasphemous has another free expansion out now with Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin, pulling in Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night along with more free content.
Metro Exodus still due on Linux this year, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition announced
Deep Silver and 4A Games have just revealed Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and they've confirmed that Linux support for Metro Exodus is still happening.
AI-made maps for your favourite adventures? Dungeon Alchemist sounds very interesting
With an aim to release in late 2021, Dungeon Alchemist is an AI-powered mapmaking tool for both players and dungeon masters to use with your favourite Virtual Tabletop Application.
The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 26
The first GOL Podcast episode of 2021 is here, come get it while it's hot and ranty as we cover a range of weird and wonderful topics in Linux, open source, gaming and more.
Godot Engine gains a $120K grant from game developer Kefir
Looks like game developer Kefir may have future titles built using the free and open source Godot Engine, as they've given them a grant of 120 thousand dollars (USD).
Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game about an old fictional computer
Comet 64 huh? It's a programming puzzle game involving a fantasy old computer and it certainly hits the mark when it comes to the visual style.
Jupiter Moons: Mecha - Prologue demo offers a shiny test of the next deck-builder hit
It's not always clear what will be a hit but sometimes, I honestly think it is and Jupiter Moons: Mecha has early signs of being something a little bit special.
Deck-based mash-up adventure Loop Hero launching on March 4
Loop Hero, an upcoming mash-up of genres that blends together a roguelike adventure with deck-building and a little auto-battling in a very unique game mechanically is now launching on March 4. There's also a limited time demo up.
Dungeon crawling action-RPG Sword of the Necromancer is out now
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the dungeon-crawling action-RPG Sword of the Necromancer is out now.
Using the Epic Store on Linux is even easier with the latest Heroic Games Launcher updates
Epic Games don't support Linux with their store, so the community continues building around it with the Heroic Games Launcher that can run plenty of games from the Epic Store.
Free and open source strategy shooter Unvanquished gearing up for big new release
Unvanquished is a free and open source first-person shooter that blends in elements of a strategy game, it's a bit like Natural Selection and they're in the process of doing a big new release.
FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project releases version 21.0.0
FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 are two of the absolute best space shooters around, and thankfully FreeSpace 2 continues living on very nicely with the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project. A new release is up after another year of work.
With some epic 8-bit styled artwork Cyber Shadow is out now
Cyber Shadow from Aarne "MekaSkull" Hunziker and Yacht Club Games is an epic throwback to the likes of Ninja Gaiden and Shadow Of The Ninja and it's out now with Linux support.
Try out Luxtorpeda, a Steam Play tool to run games in native game engines
There's quite a few games available on Steam that either don't support Linux, or do support Linux but like the Windows release there's a better way to run it perhaps with an open source game engine. Luxtorpeda will help with that.
VKD3D-Proton begins work to support DirectX Raytracing on Linux
There's a few mountains that Steam Play Proton still needs to climb over the next few years, to enable more Windows games and more features in those games to work under Linux. One big one is at least in progress.
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