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Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim get expanded multiplayer with mod support

By Liam Dawe,
SCS Software have begun expanding what's possible with the newly introduced Convoy Mode multiplayer in both their truck sims Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.

New Steam Client Beta adjusts the Vulkan pre-caching system and PipeWire for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another day another Steam Client Beta release and this time Valve has done some adjustments to the Vulkan pre-caching system for Linux.

A first Release Candidate for Proton 6.3-7 is up with more games working

By Liam Dawe,
Time for a weekend of testing for many of you? A fresh version of Steam Play Proton is on the way, with a CodeWeavers developer on GitHub announcing a Release Candidate build of Proton 6.3-7.

Help make the next Ubuntu version awesome with the final Ubuntu 21.10 Beta released

By Liam Dawe,
Ubuntu 21.10 Beta is one of the final steps before the next release of this very popular Linux distribution. It's time to get testing and reporting issues to ensure it's a good one.

Steam Client Beta updated with PipeWire desktop capture for Remote Play

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue upgrading and tweaking the Steam client with a fresh Beta version being released today with a couple of tweaks that are interesting for Linux users.

Minecraft has a proper snapshot up now for Caves & Cliffs: Part II

By Liam Dawe,
The second part of the next major Minecraft update with Caves & Cliffs: Part II is now available as a proper snapshot available to test out the latest features.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver version 470.62.02 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA continue their usual upgrades to their special NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver with a fresh release out with version 470.62.02 now available to test.

Lutris game manager gets a second Beta for version 0.5.9 with Epic Store support

By Liam Dawe,
Building upon a bunch of big new features in the first Lutris 0.5.9 Beta, a second Beta is out now with a focus on polishing up the experience that needs more testing.

Steam not working right on Arch Linux? It's an issue with FreeType and there's a fix

By Liam Dawe,
If you're using Arch Linux or anything based on it (or other rolling update distributions) and you've recently run updates that included freetype2, you might unfortunately notice that Steam is now quite broken.

Wonderful relaxing beekeeping sim APICO is opening up a playtest

By Liam Dawe,
Want to care for the bees? The upcoming casual sim APICO from TNgineers is opening up a Steam Playtest that starts on August 30 for anyone to give it a try.

Splitgate Season 0 launches with a new Contamination game mode, new map and more

By Liam Dawe,
Splitgate, the huge free to play first-person shooter with portals from 1047 Games announced recently that it shall remain in Beta for the foreseeable future and now Splitgate Season 0 has officially launched.

OpenTTD gets a first 12.0 version Beta to make playing with others easier

By Liam Dawe,
After the release of OpenTTD on Steam recently, the popularity of the game got a healthy boost but it came with a lot of feedback about some parts that could be improved so this is the first step with OpenTTD 12.0 Beta 1.

Proton 6.3-6 gets a Release Candidate with new game support and fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and CodeWeavers are working towards a fresh release of Proton with plenty of goodies including like more games working, and plenty of bug fixes too.

Looks like the fresh Back 4 Blood Beta is working on Linux with Proton GE

By Liam Dawe,
Back 4 Blood is releasing in October from Turtle Rock Studios (original developer on Left 4 Dead) and they now have an Open Beta that anyone can try out and it appears to work with Proton GE.

Mojang continue tweaking Minecraft with a new Caves & Cliffs biome in testing

By Liam Dawe,
With the second part of the Caves & Cliffs update in progress, Mojang put up a snapshot to try in July and they've continued tweaking it since.

Splitgate continues expanding server capacity and smashing records

By Liam Dawe,
Splitgate, the really fun FPS with portals is currently in an Open Beta on Steam (with full cross-platform play with consoles) and it continues to see high player numbers.

GameMaker Studio 2 introduces an Ubuntu Linux editor in Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is certainly a surprise. YoYo Games have announced an early Beta for GameMaker Studio 2 version 2.3.4 that brings with it a new IDE for Ubuntu Linux. So you can make GMS games on Ubuntu now.

Space sandbox game Avorion has a huge 2.0 Beta available now

By Liam Dawe,
Avorion is a single-player or online co-op space survival sandbox game, one where you construct your ships with individual blocks and go explore the galaxy.

Lutris game manager 0.5.9-beta1 is out adding Epic Games Store support

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a while since we had a new major release of Lutris, the free and open source game manager that allows you to bundle together all of your games in a single application.

Steam gets new a Downloads page, new Steam Library manager and Linux improvements

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Beta update is available for the Steam Client and this time it's a big one. Overhauling the Downloads page, and the Steam Library manager is finally more useful.
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