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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard

By Liam Dawe,
A bit of wider industry news today. News which completely blows my mind - Microsoft are out to acquire Activision Blizzard.

Mad Experiments 2: Escape Room releases on March 8

By Liam Dawe,
March 8 will bring more puzzle / escape room antics with Mad Experiments 2: Escape Room from PlayTogether Studio.

We'll always have Paris is a narrative adventure about loving someone with dementia

By Liam Dawe,
Cowleyfornia Studios, developer of Sarawak have recently announced their next story-based adventure game with We'll always have Paris.

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox gets improvements ready for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox from developers Nihon Falcom, PH3 GmbH, Engine Software and publisher NIS America, Inc. has released an update to get the game ready for the Steam Deck.

Valve continues tweaking their new Store Hubs for tags

By Liam Dawe,
With Valve's latest store updates experiment that's ongoing, they gave a new look to Store Hubs for all the various tags and they just release an update with plenty of tweaks.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 9: Ancient Archaeology

By Hamish,
After the demise of Loki Software, one of their former employees found himself forced to work behind a cash register for a living. Desperate to get back to porting games, he found the email address of an artist working for the Croatian developer Croteam, creators of the game Serious Sam.

Collabora pulls in Jason Ekstrand to work on Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Jason Ekstrand, a name that many big Linux fans will know, who previously worked at Intel until very recently has announced today the move to open source consulting firm Collabora.

Love cracking locks? Check out Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking

By Liam Dawe,
Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking is a wonderful little idea to bring together many different ways to crack locks from various styles in video games.

After 12 years development, business sim GearCity is officially out now

By Liam Dawe,
Built with FOSS tooling, GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator where you run your own car company.

GOG finally update their store browsing with new filters

By Liam Dawe,
Game store GOG.com has finally updated the browsing experience for those of you who prefer getting your games there.

Wii U emulator Cemu plans to go open source and support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Most emulators nowadays have their source code nicely open, and the vast majority of them fully support Linux too but Cemu has been a bit of a holdout. Not for long though.

Open source voice-chat levels up with Mumble 1.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you not wanting to use the likes of Discord for voice-chat, there’s also Mumble which is a free, open source, low latency, high quality voice chat application

Plasma 5.24 Beta goes live with protection to stop Discover removing Plasma

By Liam Dawe,
The latest release of the KDE Plasma desktop is close with the Plasma 5.24 Beta going live now with plenty of new features and fixes for this customizable environment.

Proton Experimental pulls in newer DXVK to help God of War on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A small update landed last night for Proton Experimental with a main aim of helping the recent God of War release, which has been running quite nicely already.

God of War is now on Steam and runs out of the box on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Something that still doesn't quite feel right somehow is seeing the likes of a PlayStation logo on Linux. Anyway, the smash hit God of War is now on Steam and works right away on Linux.

Get Surviving Mars and expansions in the latest Humble Bundle plus a big sale

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get a copy of Surviving Mars and plenty of extra content? Check out the Humble Surviving Mars Bundle. Plus, there's a Winter Sale on at Humble.

Discord Overlay for Linux 'Discover Overlay' gets a new release

By Liam Dawe,
While Discord continues to not support Linux with their official overlay, there is at least Discover, which helpfully gives you some options to show chatters on your screen.

Quiet ocean survival-adventure Aquamarine launches January 20

By Liam Dawe,
A quiet survival adventure about perception and discovery in an alien ocean. The crowdfunded game Aquamarine is now confirmed to be launching on January 20.

Steam Deck on track for the end of February

By Liam Dawe,
Good news, following the previous delay and even with the pandemic and global shortages Valve has announced that the Steam Deck is still on track to ship by the end of February.

Proton Experimental fixes up Sea of Thieves voice chat

By Liam Dawe,
Today a small bug-fix update went out for Proton Experimental, as Valve continues readying it up ahead of the launch of their handheld Steam Deck.