Games for GNU/Linux and Testing of Steam's Wine Fork, Proton

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Million to One Hero, the action platformer with a built-in editor to create and share entire campaigns is out
Million to One Hero, a new Early Access action platformer just went out today and it's really quite good.
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Dead Cells is getting a huge free update 'Rise of the Giant' that's due soon, available for testing
Easily one of my top 10 favourite Linux games released last year, Dead Cells, is about to get a huge free update.
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The beat 'em up 'Streets of Red: Devil's Dare Deluxe' is out with Linux support and it's good
Streets of Red: Devil's Dare Deluxe from Secret Base, a permadeath multiplayer horror beat 'em up is now available with Linux support.
Developed by Secret Base, it's actually a slightly revamped version of the original Devil's Dare. Since they don't actually mention anywhere in clear terms what's changed, I asked.
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Go to IT, another business simulation game has Linux support while in Early Access
Go to IT, yet another business simulation game entered the fold late last year and I gave it a few runs to see what it's like.
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The mana detection mechanism
Finally, in this chapter, we will look at the mana detection mechanism where when the player has overlapped mana he will gain 1 unit of life so when he hits the enemy he can continue to move onward after he has used that 1 unit of life to heal himself. We will also remove the enemy from the scene after it has collided with the player. In order to create such a system, we need to edit a few files.
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Cold Hearts, a visual novel about dating household appliances is real and heading to Linux
This could win my "weirdest game of 2019" award quite easily, as Cold Hearts is a visual novel that seems to be about dating your refrigerator.
It's being developed by Outstar (The Witcher 3, Eventide: Slavic Fable) and Memoriesin8bit (Mothergunship) as a passion project. It will have 6 different paths to follow, multiple endings, characters to romance and more.
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Testing of Steam's Wine fork Proton
The Proton runtime environment, which is based on Wine, brings a new crop of Steam-powered games to Linux.
For many years, game developers didn't pay much attention to Linux. Native Linux versions of commercial games were very rare, but with a little luck, you could sometimes get the Windows version to run on your Linux system with the help of the the Wine runtime environment. But slipping a compatibility layer between a Windows game and a Linux OS never was a perfect solution. Wine was only reliable with older games, and getting it working often involved major research and tinkering.
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