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Bungie's classic free FPS 'Marathon' is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Before the likes of Halo: Combat Evolved and Destiny, Bungie created the FPS series Marathon which nowadays lives on as an open source project and now it's available on Steam.

Apex Legends Upheaval update live with EOS Anti-Cheat breaking it on Steam Deck / Linux (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Respawn and EA have today released a major update for the popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends, which gives it an anti-cheat upgrade. Sadly it's causing issues for Steam Deck / Linux players. ARTICLE UPDATED

Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers v2.1 out with Linux support now available

By Liam Dawe,
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is an awesome free kart racing fan game, and not only is there a new release out but the Linux version is now ready to be downloaded and played too.

Clothes Line is a sweet free little adventure game about a retired old lady

By Liam Dawe,
If you have half an hour free and fancy cozying up with a little something, check out the new free release of Clothes Line.

Albion Online now officially launched in Europe and MENA regions

By Liam Dawe,
Albion Online the MMO from Sandbox Interactive has now formally opened the gates for Europe and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) with their brand new server.

Open source evolution sim Thrive gets upgraded to Godot 4

By Liam Dawe,
A game engine upgrade across a major version is quite a big thing, and it initially proved a little problematic for the open source evolution sim Thrive but it is done.

Lefties unite! Counter-Strike 2 now lets you swap hands

By Liam Dawe,
All you Lefties out there can finally get properly represented, in Counter-Strike 2 that is, as there's now the ability to swap your weapons into the other hand.

Check out the free spooky fan game Aliens: Redacted

By Liam Dawe,
To celebrate Alien Day, one developer decided to make a fan game with Aliens: Redacted now available on itch.io.

Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers released after 5 years of development

By Liam Dawe,
Sonic fans will love this one! Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers builds upon the idea of its predecessor SRB2Kart, a kart racing game built on the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2, itself based on a modified version of Doom Legacy.

Crownfall multi-act update live for Dota 2, plus a new comic

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just released a big new update for Dota 2 with Crownfall, which not only includes a new comic to read but also what they call The Markets of Midgate. This is the first act of an ongoing story event.

Team Fortress 2 64bit support released, plus Vulkan for Linux via DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now launched the 64bit update for Team Fortress 2, which should bring performance improvements for most users. Plus we get Vulkan now too.

Asymmetrical indirect control RTS game Roboden now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
How about a free (and open source) game to add to your library? Roboden is an asymmetrical indirect control real-time strategy game about robot colonies and it's now Steam Deck Verified.

OpenTTD 14.0 brings a scalable font, a new ship pathfinder, social platform integration

By Liam Dawe,
Twenty years after the first release, OpenTTD 14.0 has been made available bringing with it some really useful sounding features to enable new ways to play.

MineClone2, inspired by Minecraft, gets renamed to VoxeLibre

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the core gameplay of Minecraft, the name MineClone2 was not a particularly good one and it seems the developers were aware and so it's gone through a rebrand to be now called VoxeLibre.

Combined Arms (OpenRA) for Command & Conquer just had a huge upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Need some more RTS in your life? Combined Arms is one of my favourites. Built on the free and open source OpenRA, it brings together the Allies, Soviets, GDI, Nod and Scrin.

Cute gravity-bending platformer ROTA is now free and open source

By Liam Dawe,
Always nice to see more developers open up their games. ROTA released back in 2022 is now not only free, but it's also been made open source by the dev.

Please, Touch The Artwork 2 gets a bunch of Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Please, Touch The Artwork 2 is a free and highly rated hand-painted cozy hidden object adventure out now, and recently it had some nice Steam Deck improvements.

Free Settlers II inspired strategy game Widelands version 1.2 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
It's free, open source and full of features. Widelands, a game inspired by The Settlers II, has a big new release out now with version 1.2.

Free and open source action-adventure RPG 'Veloren' update 0.16 out now

By Liam Dawe,
It's free, it's open source and it's looking good! Veloren is a action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world and a brand new release is out with update 0.16.

Thief tribute game The Dark Mod v2.12 released with big optimizations

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the "Thief" series by Looking Glass Studios, The Dark Mod is a full standalone open source first-person stealth game.
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