OpenRCT2, the open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a major update

By Liam Dawe,
You don't always have to give up classics, thanks to open source. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living on with a fresh update of the re-implementation OpenRCT2.

Vagrus - The Riven Realms manages to break $100K on Fig with Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
What's become quite an ongoing indie success story is Vagrus - The Riven Realms, an incredibly interesting post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG-strategy hybrid.

Libretro / RetroArch were hacked, wiping some repositories

By Liam Dawe,
In an announcement, the Libretro / RetroArch mentioned how the Libretro / RetroArch organization on GitHub was attacked by hackers and they managed to do quite a bit of damage.

A weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently

By Liam Dawe,
Another week has dragged on and here we are, the weekend. It's time to go over a few little bits and find out what our readers have been playing this week.

Free and open source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a huge new release out

By Liam Dawe,
Veloren is an in-development open-world and open source voxel RPG, it shows a massive amount of promise and a brand new release is out for you to try.

Want more professional Godot Engine tutorials? Check out this new Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in game development? Godot Engine is a constantly improving free, open source and high quality game engine and one developer is trying to push out more professional content to help people using it.

Dota 2 - The International 10 close to a record for the Battle Pass, new Collector’s Cache

By Liam Dawe,
The International 10, Dota 2's upcoming major tournament is getting close to breaking another record for the prize pool. Plus there's a new Collector's Cache up.

Papercraft tactical RPG 'Wildermyth' is now massively better after recent updates

By Liam Dawe,
Wildermyth, a tactical turn-based RPG with a Papercraft styled design that's like a tabletop RPG mixed with XCOM has recently had some pretty huge tech upgrades.

Wine 5.15 is out with XACT work and Direct Input improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Another two weeks and another development release of Wine has been let out to breathe, here's the highlights of Wine 5.15 that will eventually become Wine 6.0.

The Vaporum: Lockdown teaser has me wanting more

By Liam Dawe,
Vaporum: Lockdown is the upcoming prequel to 2017's Vaporum, a first-person real-time dungeon crawler that impressed with the graphical style and the gameplay.

Rip Them Off is an upcoming blend of tower defense and satirical economic management

By Liam Dawe,
Tower defense mixed blended with an economic management puzzle that has a satirical take on capitalism? Can't say I remember any other game that blends such elements together.

Over 8 years in development later, Factorio is properly out now

By Liam Dawe,
Originally crowdfunded on IndieGoGo back in 2013, who would have thought this 2D game about building conveyor belts across a big map would be such a big hit? A great many years later, 8+ in total and here we are. Factorio has now left Early Access as a proper full game.

Evolution sim The Sapling expands in September with massive new features

By Liam Dawe,
Indie game dev Wessel Stoop has announced their evolution sim, The Sapling, will be getting a first proper major update since entering Early Access in 2019.

Sunset Shapes is a relaxing puzzle game about building shadows

By Liam Dawe,
Playing with shadows is something I'm sure we've all done a few times and Sunset Shapes takes that idea, merges it with some almost Tetris-like shapes to have you build a shadow.

Dota Underlords is getting a hero rotation soon and a rank reset

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have remembered that Dota Underlords exists and needs some attention, with an announcement that it's going to see a hero rotation soon.

Dying Light - Hellraid is out now giving you a little dungeon crawling

By Liam Dawe,
Based loosely upon what would have been a standalone game from Techland, Dying Light - Hellraid, a small DLC that swaps Zombies for Skeletons and sends you into a cramped and streamlined dungeon crawler.

You are what you eat in the run and gun game Bite the Bullet

By Liam Dawe,
Out now with Linux support is Bite the Bullet from Mega Cat Studios and Graffiti Games, a run and gun action-platformer like the classics but with some gross twists.

Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK 1.7.1 is out, lots of game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
After a few months since 1.7 went out, DXVK 1.7.1 is now live to further improve Direct3D to Vulkan translation.

Dead Cells gets another big free update and a Demake Soundtrack

By Liam Dawe,
A chiptune/8-bit version of the Dead Cells soundtrack? Absolutely sign me up. Oh, there's also a brand new free content update out now which is nice too.

Intel's dedicated gaming GPU releases in 2021, plus 10nm SuperFin is coming

By Liam Dawe,
During Intel Architecture Day 2020, they made a number of announcements. While a fair amount was marketing talk and plenty for servers, they did give a few details on their upcoming dedicated GPUs.