Games: Second Earth, Two Point Hospital, SDL2, Battle for Wesnoth, Linux Gaming News Punch, GameHub, Football Story, RPCS3
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Second Earth, a base-building game from the developer of Broforce has a Linux build
Broforce is the game from developer Free Lives that made me fall in love with platformers again, can they do the same for base-building tower defense games? Second Earth could be good when further developed.
To be clear, Second Earth is in the very early stages to the point that they're calling it a prototype. Even so, I've played with it for a little while and the Linux version seems to run pretty well.
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Two Point Hospital | Linux Gaming | Ubuntu 18.04 | Native
Two Point Hospital has a free weekend on Steam right now!
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SDL2 has pulled in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter
SDL2, the cross-platform development library has now merged in support for the Wii U/Switch USB GameCube controller adapter.
This work is the result of the successful IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign from Ethan Lee, who previously ported a ton of games to Linux and Lee now also works with CodeWeavers to help with Steam Play/Proton development. This campaign was a personal project of Lee's, done across a few weekends.
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Looks like Battle for Wesnoth is being ported to Godot Engine
Battle for Wesnoth, the classic open source turn-based strategy game has been around for a long time and it seems they're going to switch over to the Godot Engine.
In a Twitter post sent out yesterday, the team teased "Are we working on a thing?
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List Of 30+ Best Linux Games That You Should Play in 2019
There are thousands of Games available for Linux based operating systems. Those used to be the day when it was hard to find Linux games but these days there are several gaming marketplace, gaming platforms and games being developed for the Linux based operating systems.
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Linux Gaming News Punch - Episode 4
For those who have trouble keeping up with all the happenings, here's another bite-sized round-up of some interesting Linux gaming news recently.
The Linux Gaming News Punch - Episode 4 is officially here. As usual, it comes in both video and audio-only flavours.
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GameHub is another open source game launcher, giving Lutris some competition
Not a fan of Lutris or just want to try something different? GameHub could be a pretty good option for you.
I've been meaning to try this for a while, after many people emailed it in over the last few months. I finally sat down with it this weekend to give it a good run and honestly, I'm pretty impressed. While it claims it is "designed for elementary OS" it of course works across different distributions.
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Football Story blends a narrative campaign with competitive multiplayer, coming to Linux
For those who love their games that involve sports, Football Story sounds like it could be one to watch. It's being developed by fructus temporum, with publishing by Crytivo (The Universim).
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The latest progress report for PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is looking good
The RPCS3 team have a huge mountain to climb to get more PlayStation 3 titles playable but it's all coming together now.
The latest report shows that 1,119 titles are now class as playable, up from 1,081 reported the month before. Considering the amount of effort required in such an emulator, it's really impressive. Some of these newly playable titles include Skate 3, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise, Ragnarok Odyssey Ace and more!
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