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Our top favourite Linux games released in 2020
28 December 2020 at 5:33 am UTC

Black Mesa
Half Life Alyx
LISA
Road Redemption
Distance (The updates are amazing)


AoE II Definitive Edition (A new expansion is coming in January after 20 years)
Caesar 3 -- Augustus Mod
Halo MCC
System Shock 2
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered with Mods

Free and open source 2D RTS 'Wyrmsun' 4.0 is out now
25 December 2020 at 8:30 am UTC Likes: 1

I miss Stargus being in active development :( After seeing how amazing Caesar III in Augustus and Julius are and OpenRCT2 for Rollercoaster Tycoon I would love to see a open-source reimplementation of StarCraft BroodWar. This game plays similar and warrants following closely.

Valve officially launches the Steam News Hub
15 December 2020 at 6:25 am UTC

I would welcome Steam adding _donation_ buttons to MODDERS & Workshop content producers.

Ubisoft+ begins rolling out on Stadia for players in the US
15 December 2020 at 6:23 am UTC Likes: 1

I hope to have the option to buy them for Linux on Steam.

Google hasn't earned my trust there's zero change I'm buying into another one of their services after the bullshit they are pulling with YouTube & the self-appointed powers to remove individuals privacy.

If anything all the bullshit this 6 months has made me much more interested in GOG. Being even _more_ dependent on the Internet is _not_ a good thing.

Atari VCS has some game announcements, actually shipping soon
12 December 2020 at 4:07 am UTC Likes: 2

QuoteThey said it will need an internet connection to activate.

I can think of no good reason why a internet connection should be _required_. It honestly pisses me off how dependent and lazy game developers, console makers and others have used the internet in order to push broken things out.

Also, what if you don't live in a area with a good internet connection? It does happen. Not everyone lives in a mega-city.

Big turn-off.

Pharaoh-like isometric city builder Nebuchadnezzar to release February 17, 2021
20 November 2020 at 11:00 pm UTC

I'm following this game, it looks like it could be a lot of fun. It's nice to see someone target the oldschool isometric sprite style -- I'd definitely buy more games that did just that.

Half-Life re-imagining Black Mesa has a Definitive Edition available in Beta now
2 November 2020 at 7:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

I still remember getting the Half Life demo in a PC Gamer magazine ? I never would have thought 20+ years later I would be seeing the same story in ridiculous detail.

The Steam Digital Tabletop Fest is now live with sales, streams and more
22 October 2020 at 6:42 am UTC

Still waiting on Civ 6 Complete Edition to be a thing. It's just pointless to own several copies of 5 and 6 and need another one to "finish" my collection only to have more DLC come out later. (But then it's not like it's on my daily list -- more on my "to play/LAN list")

Dota 2 getting a new hero in November, more next year and a CS:GO style Overwatch system
17 October 2020 at 3:40 am UTC

QuoteAs for the game itself, they're doing some "engine development" which should give us "moderate performance improvements on multi-core CPU’s" which should be out in a week or so.

Made me look up. I wonder if the gains on Thread-ripper 16-core/32-thread will scale or not. Very interesting.