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Luxtorpeda adds Classic Marathon for playing the Native Linux version via Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Recently the Aleph One team released the classic Bungie shooter Marathon on Steam, as I covered previously, but it's only officially for macOS and Windows despite it supporting Linux. Now you can use Luxtorpeda for it.

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.

PS1 love-letter survival horror game Crow Country gets Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Ahead of the release of May 9th, SFB Games have managed to get their upcoming survival horror game Crow Country that's a love-letter to classic PlayStation horror games Steam Deck Verified.

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.

Parking Garage Rally Circuit coming by dev of JellyCar with Linux / Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
A game that is something of a homage to the days of the Sega Saturn, Walaber Entertainment who created the fun JellyCar series have announced Parking Garage Rally Circuit.

Pick up some classics in the Good Old Games sale at GOG

By Liam Dawe,
GOGception going on here. GOG (which originally stood for Good Old Games) has launched the Good Old Games sale.

Stardust Demon looks fantastic for retro metroidvania adventure fans

By Liam Dawe,
Planned to release sometime this year, Stardust Demon is a retro-style metroidvania adventure game inspired by Cave Story, Zelda, and many more. Featuring cute chibi characters wrapped in some dark and spooky undertones.

Descent 3 has been made open source

By Liam Dawe,
Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.

Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol.4 is out now with more classics

By Liam Dawe,
If you're a shoot 'em up fan you've been eating good recently, with another quality set of games out now in the Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.4.

Over 20 classic SNK titles just released on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
If you love retro gaming, you might want to hop on over to GOG as they've teamed up with SNK again to bring a bunch more classic games to your collections.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 41: The Worm Turns

By Hamish,
The Allegro library is a cross-platform backend for low-level game routines, which for much of its history was very much associated with the MS-DOS freeware scene that was still going strong well into the early 2000s. Seeing this wealth of game content, the Fedora contributor Hans de Goede decided to see if he could port some of these over to Linux.

Old School Rally plans full support for Steam Deck - got me feeling nostalgic

By Liam Dawe,
I have truly fond memories of spending entire days playing rally games on the original PlayStation, and some later games on PC and Old School Rally really looks the part.

Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol.4 announced and coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
Bitwave Games are doing it again, giving us a healthy dose of nostalgia with the Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol.4 that's due to release soon. Plus a teaser of something else to come.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 40: The Cyborg Project

By Hamish,
An action platformer first released in 1999, you play as Urban Gutter, a man taken by an evil scientist to a secret military base and changed into a cyborg against his will. The acronym in the title then is a bit odd, but your one goal is to escape and enact as bloody a revenge on the world as possible. Any hope for true catharsis here often gets lost in frustration however.

Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection launched on Steam (and other classics)

By Liam Dawe,
EA just surprised launched the Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection on Steam in a big bundle, along with a few other classic titles.

EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support

By Smellbringer,
The news of the Yuzu team agreeing to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in damages and immediately shut down all operations sent shock waves through the emulation landscape. EmuDeck will now also be removing Yuzu and Citra.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 39: Beyond Heretic

By Hamish,
I stated before that neither of the contemporary HeXen ports, Linux Hexen and its fork HHexen, supported MIDI music playback through the /dev/sequencer device, but hiding on the venerable SunSITE network I found the only online trace of another early HeXen source port released in December 1999 by Russian programmer Stanislav Nesterov.

The Force Engine for classic Star Wars: Dark Forces now on Flathub

By Liam Dawe,
Want an easy way to get The Force Engine on Linux to play Star Wars: Dark Forces (and eventually Outlaws too)? Well, now it's available on Flathub.

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, which is an open source version of the classic Star Control 2, has managed to get a Steam release from Pistol Shrimp Games.
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