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Humble Store is doing a Female Protagonist Sale, plus the upcoming Steam sale dates leaked

By Liam Dawe,
The week has only just begun and there's plenty of sales going on, with even more coming up. Let's have a little look.

Another OpenRA preview build is up needing testing, Tiberian Sun support is coming along

By Liam Dawe,
Work continues on the open source game engine OpenRA which allows you to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux and other modern platforms with support for Tiberian Sun progressing well.

Steam 'Remote Play Together' is now in Beta, allowing local multiplayer games over the net

By Liam Dawe,
Today, Valve have released an exciting update to the Steam Beta Client which adds in Remote Play Together, allowing you to play local co-op, local multiplayer and shared/split screen games over the net with your friends.

Failbetter Games are upgrading owners of Sunless Skies to the Sovereign Edition next year

By Liam Dawe,
Failbetter Games have announced that Sunless Skies is getting a bit of an upgrade with the Sovereign Edition and it's going to be free to existing purchasers when it's release next year.

After making Crusader Kings II free, Paradox are now giving away The Old Gods expansion

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a bit of a whirlwind of Paradox news recently and we have even more to share. With a tiny amount of effort, you can get The Old Gods expansion for Crusader Kings II free.

vkBasalt, an open source Vulkan post processing layer for Contrast Adaptive Sharpening

By Liam Dawe,
This is an interesting open source project! vkBasalt is a new Vulkan post processing layer that currently supports Contrast Adaptive Sharpening.

You can now grab the Gotrek and Felix DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II free

By Liam Dawe,
Just a quick tip for Total War: WARHAMMER II fans this Monday morning, as you can now grab the previously White Dwarf Magazine exclusive DLC Gotrek and Felix for free.

Need an easy way to manage a Linux game server? LinuxGSM is great and recently passed 100 supported titles

By Liam Dawe,
A project that perhaps isn't as well known as it should be: LinuxGSM makes managing Linux game servers easy and they recently hit a fun milestone.

Boxtron, the Steam Play compatibility tool for DOSBox brings more improvements in another update

By Liam Dawe,
The Speedy Staging 0.5.3 of Boxtron is out, further improving this Steam Play compatibility tool for DOSBox gaming on Linux.

Humble Monthly will be changing to Humble Choice later this year

By Liam Dawe,
If you're interested in getting a bunch of games each month, the Humble Monthly has at times been quite generous with the selection. Things are about to change, with it being renamed to Humble Choice with new options.

Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section

By Liam Dawe,
Sunday is a day mostly of rest, relaxation and kicking butt in some games. Before that though, let's have a little look at a few bits and pieces of missing news and what was interesting recently.

Imperator: Rome is getting a free Punic Wars content pack in addition to the big Livy update

By Liam Dawe,
One piece of PDXCON news missed from yesterday: Imperator: Rome is getting a free Punic Wars Content Pack along with the upcoming Livy Update.

Continuing the Counter-Strike 20th anniversary Valve put out skins, plus a possible Operation and update coming

By Liam Dawe,
After starting off the celebration for Counter-Strike turning 20 back in June with the retro version of Dust II, Valve have now added a refreshed version of the map Cache and a themed Weapon Case and Sticker Capsule.

Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance expansion and a significant free update announced

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive are expanding another of their grand-scale strategy games, with Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance announced during PDXCON.

BATTLETECH: Heavy Metal brings more classic 'Mechs and new weapon systems, releasing in November

By Liam Dawe,
Even more news from PDXCON! Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive have now properly announced the BATTLETECH: Heavy Metal expansion to bring more destruction.

Prison Architect - Psych Ward: Warden's Edition expansion announced (plus another coming)

By Liam Dawe,
I think we all saw this coming when Paradox Interactive picked up the rights to Prison Architect, with Double Eleven taking on further development. The first proper DLC has been announced at PDXCON named Prison Architect - Psych Ward: Warden's Edition.

Crusader Kings III announced for release next year, to be more welcoming to new players

By Liam Dawe,
As I suggested they would when setting Crusader Kings II permanently free, Paradox Interactive have announced Crusader Kings III

Stellaris: Federations and Stellaris: Lithoids Species Pack announced at PDXCON

By Liam Dawe,
PDXCON is now in full swing and the announcement are being handed out like candy. First up, Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio have announced Stellaris: Federations and Stellaris: Lithoids Species Pack.

DXVK 1.4.3 released helping games with a large number of different shaders

By Liam Dawe,
No doubt some of our readers will be in for a busy weekend testing, with another release of DXVK now officially available.

Please look at this Wine graph showing a 4.18 increase

By Liam Dawe,
I decant believe that title! The latest and greatest code from the Wine hackers has been sweetened to perfection with the Wine 4.18 development release now available.
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