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GOL Cast: Revisiting the trenches of Verdun

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It’s been some time since I shared my thoughts about Verdun and I’ve heard the game has changed in a positive way since then, so let’s check out how this WW1 multiplayer shooter does!

The Wine Stable Release 1.8.2 Is Now Available

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The Wine team released today third stable release of their software. Version 1.8.2 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.

Thoughts on Retro-Pixel Castles after some major updates, a godlike village simulator on Linux

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I really liked Retro-Pixel Castles when I played it initially last year, and after trying it again now it has had some major updates I have some more thoughts on it.

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st

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Prepare to fail at survival, as Don't Starve Together is officially being released this month on the 21st of April. Great game, do try it out.

Explore space in AuroraRL, now in Early Access for Linux & SteamOS

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AuroraRL is a space exploration game where our precious earth is in crisis, and it's your task to seek out alien life and make new friends.

Crypto Hex, an abstract puzzle game about spatial reasoning released for Linux

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If you like making your head hurt with puzzles be sure to check out Crypto Hex. It has a nice visual style, simple but challenging gameplay and it confused me quite quickly.

Open source Theme Hospital engine CorsixTH 0.60 Beta 1 released

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Greetings fans of Theme Hospital, the awesome open source engine CorsixTH has released 0.60 Beta 1 with new features and fixes.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator updated, now featuring Steam Workshop support

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You can now expand your trucking simulators with community create mods in both Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator.

New Stellaris developer video brings on the hype

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I am super pumped for Stellaris, it looks like everything I have wanted in a space strategy game and this new video really has me excited.

Survival game Rust adds female player models, assigns gender to Steam accounts at random

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The survival game Rust from Facepunch Studios has been updated with a bit of a controversial change. They have added in new models, including female models, but you don't get to pick your gender.

There's an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver

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If you didn't know already, there's actually an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver which could make it far more useful outside of Steam.

ARK: Survival Of The Fittest the free online survival arena is now on Linux & SteamOS

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ARK: Survival Of The Fittest, the spin off from ARK: Survival Evolved is now available on Linux & SteamOS, it's free too.

Paws: A Shelter 2 Game & The Lonesome Fog both now available on Linux & SteamOS

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Paws: A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure, platformer set in the world of Shelter 2. The Lonesome Fog is a living book that seeks to expand on the concept of storytelling and explores the plight of a young cub trapped in a cycle of fear, cowardice and uncertainty.

This Heroes of Newerth benchmark video shows SteamOS as the clear winner

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It's always great to see when Linux/SteamOS performs really well, and this video shows Heroes of Newerth performing like a total champion for us. Note: Not our video.

Be part of a 'Kick Ass Commandos' team in this Steam Early Access frenetic top down shooter

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Lock and Load! It's time to Kick Ass. Grab your machine-gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight.

Enemy Starfighter, the seriously cool looking space shooter is no longer coming to Linux

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I'm personally sad about this, as I have been following Enemy Starfighter for years. It reminded me of Freespace 2 which I loved. The developer confirmed to me it's no longer coming to Linux officially, but he may team up with a porter in future.

How to tell what Steam games work on Linux & SteamOS, steamplay does not mean Linux support

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I still see a surprising amount of confusion from people on what Steam games work on Linux. Hopefully this will help clear it all up.

Making sweet dishes in Space Food Truck, now out of Early Access and available for Linux

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Today I have been creating some mighty fine dishes in Space Food Truck, it recently launched out from Early Access so I was keen to take a look.

Firewatch now available DRM free on GOG

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The popular first-person mystery and adventure game Firewatch is now available DRM free on GOG, and it has Linux support of course.

VoidExpanse, space action RPG updated, fixes major Linux issues

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VoidExpanse is a really cool space action RPG I've talked about a few times, and they recently updated the game which has fixed some major Linux issues.