Games: Stadia, Flax, Quake II, Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan, Legend of Keepers from Goblinz Studio, Mixing Golf

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Stadia Pro for April revealed, HITMAN gets a free starter pack and plenty more coming | GamingOnLinux
Time for another round-up of news for Stadia, the cloud gaming / game streaming service from Google with plenty more games coming along with some out now. There's also a reveal of what you will get in April with Stadia Pro.
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Flax game engine 1.1 is out with Linux Editor support | GamingOnLinux
Another promising game engine with lots of big features is Flax, available free with the source available (but not Open Source) has a huge new release out with improvements to their Linux support.
The big highlight for us here of course is their new Linux Editor, so now you can build and export games using a full Linux development environment. Using Vulkan for the rendering this is the full experience they say with "live scripting with C++/C# hot-reload, Visual Code integration, scenes editor, game cooking, terrain editing, foliage editing, and much more" giving it feature parity with the Windows editor.
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Quake II RTX patched to expand the Vulkan Ray Tracing support | GamingOnLinux
Quake II RTX from Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA continues expanding with a brand new update out now. It's not a huge one but it does continue to expand the Ray Tracing support for Vulkan.
In addition to already supporting NVIDIA's own VK_NV_ray_tracing extension and the more recent vendor neutral VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension, they've now gone further to support Ray Tracing with the VK_KHR_ray_query extension API now too.
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Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan expansion launches April 27 | GamingOnLinux
Paradox Interactive has announced the Leviathan expansion for Europa Universalis IV is due to release on April 27. This will be the first release from Paradox Tinto, their newer Barcelona-based studio.
One of the highlights of Leviathan is the ability to use diplomatic favours to gain benefits from other nations. If you post a diplomat to curry favour in a foreign nation, you will slowly build up enough diplomatic power to request material aid, changes in alliances and even the return of core provinces.
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Legend of Keepers from Goblinz Studio to release on April 29 | GamingOnLinux
Ready for another game that will make time vanish? Goblinz Studio have announced that Legend of Keepers releases on April 29. Blending together dungeon management, monster management, a little strategy and some rogue-lite mechanics Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Master is already great with the current Early Access build.
With the full release two new modes will be available with Ascension and Endless along with a tease of some other extra content for the big 1.0.
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Mixing Golf with a platformer, Mage Drops adds a Linux build and a demo | GamingOnLinux
Available now in Early Access, Mage Drops mixes together the sports game Golf with a platformer to create quite a nice casual experience you can try now.
"Combining elements of golf and minigolf-like games with puzzle platforming and a twist of fantasy magic, Mage Drops evolves the hit-and-wait formula of golf by adding magic: shots can be influenced mid-flight and elements of the world can be influenced like pinball bumpers, flippers, moving platforms and more!"
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