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Xen now out of Beta in Black Mesa, time to relive Half-Life plus a roadmap is up

By Liam Dawe, Dec 27, 2019

Shortly after drastically improving the performance in the Linux version, Crowbar Collective actually released the Xen chapter of Black Mesa out to everyone.

The new Shotgun Farmers limited time Hide & Freeze game mode is hilarious

By Liam Dawe, Dec 23, 2019

The incredibly unique shooter Shotgun Farmers has a really amusing limited-time event going on, with a Hide & Freeze game mode now live.

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, the classic open source RTS has a new release

By Liam Dawe, Dec 23, 2019

After being made open source back in 2009, the absolute classic Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries lives on and another release is out now.

The second Release Candidate is out for Wine 5.0

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2019

The Wine hackers have produced their second Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release of Wine 5.0.

You can now take your collected monsters online for PvP duels in Monster Sanctuary

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2019

Monster Sanctuary is rapidly improving with a big update out now. The headline feature of this update is the ability to take your collection online to battle against others.

Doomsday Engine for classic Doom, Heretic and Hexen has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2019

Giving you another great way to play the classics, Doomsday Engine 2.2 has been released marking 20 years since the announcement of its creation.

Steam Play Proton gets turned up to 11 in the latest update

By Liam Dawe, Dec 19, 2019

Steam Play Proton has been updated once again, dealing with a mouse issue from the last update and other improvements.

Streets of Rogue gains a new playable Robot character

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2019

Streets of Rogue, the absolutely crazy action RPG rogue-lite from Matt Dabrowski continues polishing up the level editor and Steam Workshop support. While we wait for those bits to leave Beta, a new Robot character became available.

SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2019

Valve just recently put out the latest big new build of their SteamVR platform, with something to be aware of if you're on Linux.

War Thunder 1.95 "Northern wind" released, adding in some brand new Swedish units

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2019

War Thunder has expanded again to add in a brand new Swedish Aircraft tech tree, the first Swedish tanks, ten new mixed nation naval units and more.

The Universim entering Beta with a ridiculously big update next month

By Liam Dawe, Dec 17, 2019

The Universim is already quite impressive for a city-building god sim and it's about to get a huge amount bigger next month.

Don't Starve Together has another sweet animation and more free content

By Liam Dawe, Dec 16, 2019

Klei Entertainment's online survival game Don't Starve Together continues getting bigger and better, with another free content update out plus a sweet animation.

D9VK is no more as it merges with DXVK, making DXVK a D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe, Dec 16, 2019

It's happened, the D9VK and DXVK projects have officially merged. This means DXVK is now the all-encompassing project to translate D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan for Wine.

D9VK, the Direct3D9 to Vulkan layer has a huge new 0.40 'Croakacola' release out

By Liam Dawe, Dec 14, 2019

For use with Wine and Steam Play Proton, D9VK is the awesome project based on DXVK which translates Direct3D9 to Vulkan for better performance. A big new release just went out.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-10 out, mouse handling improvements and Halo: The Master Chief Collection works

By Liam Dawe, Dec 13, 2019

A brand new update to Steam Play Proton has arrived ahead of the weekend with Proton 4.11-10, giving out of the box play for Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

Unsettling story-driven adventure 'Sally Face' has a final fifth episode released

By Liam Dawe, Dec 13, 2019

An adventure about a boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past, an unsettling episodic game and it's now complete.

Fighting game Fantasy Strike adds full cross-platform online play with PC and Consoles

By Liam Dawe, Dec 12, 2019

The very pretty fighting game Fantasy Strike from Sirlin Games just got a great update, enabling cross-platform online play between Linux/macOS/Windows and the Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4 consoles.

Dreamcast emulator Flycast adds a Vulkan renderer

By Liam Dawe, Dec 12, 2019

There seems to be quite a lot of interest in Vulkan lately, as more projects begin using it. Now we have the Dreamcast emulator Flycast adding Vulkan support.

Rocket League's new Item Shop and Blueprints get a price reduction

By Liam Dawe, Dec 12, 2019

Oh Psyonix, what have you done? Rocket League recently had the loot boxes removed, with Blueprints and an Item Shop instead so you see exactly what you get but the pricing is terrible.