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The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2020

For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2020

The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.

Steampunk first-person, base building survival game 'Volcanoids' gets co-op on May 20

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2020

Volcanoids is a fantastic idea for a survival game, that lets you build and customize a great big moving drill and this month on May 20 it's getting online co-op support.

Clever and quirky musical platformer 'Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói' gets an English version

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2020

Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói has been around for a few years now, and it ended up quite popular for a good reason. It's a platformer with a clever musical twist but until now it wasn't available in English.

Extreme downhill freeriding sports game Descenders has a big discount and two new tracks

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2020

Descenders is fast, smooth and most importantly for an extreme sports game - it's intense. It's also now on a big discount with some fresh content added too.

Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2020

Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.

Vulkan 1.2.140 spec out and NVIDIA has a new Vulkan Beta Driver up with new extension support

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2020

Two bits of Vulkan related news to share today. Recently the Vulkan specification was bumped again with new extension and today a new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver went up.

Linux gaming overlay 'MangoHud' improves OpenGL support, better NVIDIA detection and more

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2020

MangoHud has firmly filled a hole in tools available for Linux gamers, benchmarking and more. A handy HUD that works across OpenGL and Vulkan games and a fresh build went up.

Endless Sky, a free and open source space trading & combat game expands with a new update

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2020

Endless Sky, a free and open source classic 2D space game continues expanding with the first stable release in quite some time.

Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release

By Liam Dawe, May 3, 2020

OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.

Godot Engine has more impressive progress towards Vulkan API support

By Liam Dawe, May 2, 2020

Godot Engine is free, open source, cross-platform in both editor and exports and the next major update will bring in Vulkan API support and progress sounds great.

Team Fortress 2 gets a nice tribute to Rick May, plus a few minor fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 2, 2020

Rick May, voice of The Soldier in Team Fortress 2 died earlier this year and now Valve has added a small dedication to May in Team Fortress 2.

Modding Terraria on Steam is about to get easier with tModLoader and later Steam Workshop for it

By Liam Dawe, Apr 30, 2020

Along with the upcoming release of the massive Terraria: Journey's End free expansion, Re-Logic have announced the popular open source modding tool tModLoader will be available on Steam.

Kingdom Two Crowns grows bigger with a free Dead Lands expansion out now

By Liam Dawe, Apr 29, 2020

Kingdom Two Crowns has a bit of a crossover going over, with the Dead Lands expansion out now across all platforms and it's free for everyone too.

Underwater chaos simulator 'Barotrauma' adds wrecked submarines to explore

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2020

Another huge update for Barotrauma, a co-op game about alien ocean exploration in a submarine. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, obviously, and now there's wreckage to find and explore too.

Brave your fears again as the deck-builder 'Iris and the Giant' has a big post-release content update

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2020

Iris and the Giant was a genuine surprise when it launched in early March, a roguelike deck-builder with a nice narrative twist and a fun tactical battles. Now it has a big update out.

You can now play the chaotic train-track building game Unrailed! in single-player

By Liam Dawe, Apr 27, 2020

Unrailed! is a fantastic local and online co-op experience, one where you will be shouting and screaming with laughter at your partner and now you can play it in single-player too.

Skullgirls is getting improved online play, plus updated sound code for Linux in a Beta up now

By Liam Dawe, Apr 27, 2020

Skullgirls, the seriously good fighting game from Lab Zero Games that released originally in 2013 is still being updated and a major improvement is in testing.