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Whisker Squadron: Survivor blends Vampire Survivors with a Star Fox-like shooter

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2022

A new on-rails survival rogue-lite shooter? Sign me up. Whisker Squadron: Survivor is from the same team as Race the Sun, and the first in the Whisker Squadron series. There's also a demo right now.

GameMaker makes a few more open source moves with extensions

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2022

Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.

The itch.io winter sale is live for you to stock up on indies

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2022

Game store itch.io has their own big Winter Sale now on, where you can save big and support one of the smaller stores along with plenty of indie games.

Steam Deck shipping update for Asia notes a few issues but plenty get it this year

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2022

Valve and Komodo have given an update on the shipping of the Steam Deck through Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Retro fuelled FPS 'Selaco' has easily one of the best demos I've ever played

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

Selaco, an upcoming GZDoom-based shooter from Altered Orbit Studios has been featured before and I'm bringing it back again here because of the huge upgrade to the demo. It's simply fantastic.

My game of the year 2022 is the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

You think I'm joking? I'm not. Okay, okay. It's not a game but I'll get to that in a moment. The Steam Deck has transformed everything about gaming for me.

GOG giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut during their Winter Sale 2022

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

Another chance for you to get a free game, and perhaps take a look at some tasty discounts too with the GOG Winter Sale 2022 now giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut.

Star Wars Dark Forces - The Force Engine

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

A dedicated Star Wars fan and code hacker has created something awesome: The Force Engine. A brand new free and open source modern game engine for Star Wars Dark Forces.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver adds RTX 4000 support, Vulkan Video and more

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

For those of you who use the special NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Drivers, version 525.47.04 was recently recently to go along with the release of Vulkan Video and hook up their latest GPUs.

Vulkan Video 1.0 released with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

The Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan Video is done and ready, the 1.0 release is out with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update and no longer considered provisional.

Fall in love with your little family in Tiny Life, a pixel-art The Sims

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

Tiny Life is The Sims without EA and done in pixel art. There's a fresh free Beta out, the final one before Steam Early Access in 2023.

Duke Nukem Forever Restoration Project gets a trailer

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2022

I'm all outta gum. The Duke Nukem Forever Restoration Project is coming along nicely and a fresh trailer is out to show it off.

Epic Games to pay $520 million for privacy violations and unwanted charges

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

The FTC announced that Epic Games has agreed to pay $520 million, due to "violating children's privacy laws" and "tricking users into making unwanted charges".

Neon Prime from Valve is reportedly a third-person shooter close to release

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

Neon Prime isn't here yet, and there's nothing actually confirmed about it, but data miner and leaker Tyler McVicker gave a fresh overview on what to expect.

Paradox Interactive will be increasing game prices across a bunch of currencies

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

Paradox Interactive have announced that they're going to be increasing their prices. Some countries will get a huge bump and others only a little bit but some will actually be decreased.

KDE Plasma gets Wayland Fractional Scaling, Fixing Multi-Screen and a Steam Deck updater

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

I continue to be truly amazed by all the work going into KDE Plasma. Not only is it my desktop environment of choice on Linux, it's Valve's too as it powered the desktop mode on Steam Deck. It's about to get some juicy upgrades too.

Multiplayer sandbox building game Brickadia heads to Steam next year

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

Brickadia could be a good one for gamers both young and old, giving you a game that looks a little bit like a cross between LEGO, Minecraft and Roblox.

Epic Games needs your birthday to keep your account working in Heroic Games Launcher

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

Recently, Epic Games rolled out a change to their account system aimed at protecting the younger people on their store and it has caused issues for the Heroic Games Launcher.

Comedy point & click adventure Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack gets a GOG release

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack looks like a fun time for those of you eager to play more comedy 2D point and click adventures.

The free and open source Worms-like 'Hedgewars' is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2022

Hedgewars has been going for quite a number of years now, although it only had a 1.0 release back in 2019. It's very much styled in the spirit of Worms, except with hedgehogs.