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Amazon hiring for Proton / Wine and Linux developers for streaming service Luna

By Liam Dawe,
Despite Luna originally using Windows for Amazon's game streaming service, it appears they may be moving over to Linux and they're looking to hire people to work on Proton / Wine and give back to open source.

Dota 2 gets a new Battle Pass, Controller Support, New Event Mode

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has pushed out a fresh major upgrade for the popular free MOBA game Dota 2, with one bit clearly preparing for the upcoming Steam Deck handheld.

Pop!_OS 21.10 rolls out with new Application Library

By Liam Dawe,
System76 has rolled out Pop!_OS 21.10 today, the latest major upgrade to their Ubuntu-based operating system designed to be used by everyone - professionals and gamers alike.

Linux Mint 20.3 'Una' gets a Beta release

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you who love the taste, Linux Mint has a new Beta version available for testing the next major release. Linux Mint 20.3 'Una' is available with multiple desktop environments.

Wrought Flesh is a delightfully grotesque new FPS out now

By Liam Dawe,
Wrought Flesh is a game where you not only eat your enemies corpses to regain health, you also harvest their organs to place inside yourself to gain improved character stats. Totally grotesque and awesome.

Perhaps now I've seen it all - have a dance and a fight in Sewer Rave

By Liam Dawe,
What do you get when you put together a sewer and a bunch of rats? Obviously a rave, plus a little fighting and lots of really weird stuff happening around you. Sewer Rave is out now.

Retro game maker GB Studio gets a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Want to make retro games? How about making games on Linux that can be played on a Game Boy or the upcoming Analogue Pocket? GB Studio is your new best friend and a huge new release is out.

Use Wine for gaming on Linux? Try out Bottles

By Liam Dawe,
Bottles isn't exactly a new Linux application but it's one I had only heard about recently. It's been advancing a lot in the last year and it's really looking great.

Linux needs to be pre-installed on more hardware to hit mainstream

By Liam Dawe,
There's always arguments across many angles on what exactly Linux needs to succeed to become more mainstream and the answer, as we've long said, is pretty simple.

Get Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun free during the GOG Winter Sale

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have put up their Winter Sale and it's a good chance to not only grab some cheap games but also get a free copy of the truly excellent Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

PUBG's newer anti-cheat sounds problematic for the Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe,
PUBG is currently a game that doesn't work at all on Linux due to anti-cheat, even with the Steam Deck coming it's sounding like a game that won't play nicely. Oh, it's also going free to play.

Valve show off exclusive Steam Deck case for 512GB model

By Liam Dawe,
While all variants of the Steam Deck will come with their own case, the top-end 512GB model will include a slightly different design and Valve has now shown it off.

Cities: Skylines Airports DLC announced for release in January

By Liam Dawe,
Seems Paradox and Colossal Order aren't done with their city builder just yet, as the Cities: Skylines Airports DLC was just announced for release on January 25.

Valve broke Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux, Vulkan may come soon

By Liam Dawe,
Despite Valve pushing many areas of Linux gaming, including the upcoming Steam Deck handheld which will use the Arch-based SteamOS 3, they still totally break their own games. UPDATED.

OpenRazer 3.2.0 brings more device support for Razer fans on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Have some fancy Razer devices? Need help managing them on Linux? OpenRazer 3.2.0 is out now and it's looking good.

Windows compatibility layer Wine version 7.0 gets a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe,
Another year of work has nearly come and gone with the biweekly development releases of Wine, so a new main release is on the way with Wine 7.0 seeing a first Release Candidate.

Last Epoch gets improved controller support and a first dungeon

By Liam Dawe,
Combining together time travel with an action RPG full of dungeon crawling and lots of replay value, Last Epoch continues showing off its promise with the Eternal Legends update.

Wounds of Eventide brings the final chapter for Blasphemous out now

By Liam Dawe,
Blasphemous has a fresh update out with Wounds of Eventide, which brings overall the story to a close.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator get big upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
SCS has upgraded both Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator with some major improvements, and it seems they may work even better on the upcoming Steam Deck now.

Check out Ashes 2063 and Ashes: Afterglow, fantastic Doom II total conversions

By Liam Dawe,
An incredibly impressive double-episode total conversation for Doom 2, we have Ashes 2063 and Ashes: Afterglow.