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Re-Logic detail the new 'Journey Mode' for Terraria 1.4 that lets you do basically anything

By Liam Dawe,
Terraria is set to come to a close with the almighty Journey's End update coming out on May 16, with that comes a huge new game mode with Journey Mode.

Epic city-state simulator 'Songs of Syx' fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Songs of Syx blends quite a lot of genres together. It's part city-builder, real-time strategy, grand strategy and more. Thankfully it's also been funded with a successful Kickstarter.

The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

By Liam Dawe,
For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release

By Liam Dawe,
DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.

UnderMine gets a final big content update with the Golden Core before leaving Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Thorium Entertainment along with publisher Fandom have announced the final major update to UnderMine, an action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in, before it leaves Early Access.

RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.

Steampunk first-person, base building survival game 'Volcanoids' gets co-op on May 20

By Liam Dawe,
Volcanoids is a fantastic idea for a survival game, that lets you build and customize a great big moving drill and this month on May 20 it's getting online co-op support.

Bullet Express seems like an amusing upcoming 2D action-RPG loot shooter you can try now

By Liam Dawe,
LazyGemsGames are working on Bullet Express, a new 2D action-RPG shooter where you level up and merge guns together to create their ultimate form.

Steamdolls - Order of Chaos will bring brutal steampunk metroidvania to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Steamdolls - Order of Chaos was announced recently from developer The Shady Gentlemen, giving a metroidvania a steampunk style with some brutal action.

According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big

By Liam Dawe,
It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.

Steam has a huge indie game sale for The Indie MEGABOOTH live now

By Liam Dawe,
The Indie MEGABOOTH, a team that have supported indie game developers for a long time through events are now running a huge sale on indie games on Steam and there's some awesome stuff.

Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes

By Liam Dawe,
While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.

Stadia finally gets wireless Stadia Controller support in the web browser

By Liam Dawe,
Google have again rolled out a feature they've been promising for some time, as today you can now use the Stadia Controller over wireless with a Chromium browser.

Clever and quirky musical platformer 'Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói' gets an English version

By Liam Dawe,
Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói has been around for a few years now, and it ended up quite popular for a good reason. It's a platformer with a clever musical twist but until now it wasn't available in English.

Manjaro Linux and Star Labs team up for their Linux-focused hardware

By Liam Dawe,
Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops.

Free-moving fast-paced rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' adds a whole new awesome world

By Liam Dawe,
ScourgeBringer entered Early Access back in February and very rapidly became one of my favourite games of this year, and it has continued being awesome with the latest update.

EVERSPACE 2 looks incredible in the latest footage, lots of player ship variation will be possible

By Liam Dawe,
As ROCKFISH Games continue developing the crowdfunded space combat sim EVERSPACE 2, they've gradually showed off more footage and revealed more info.

Extreme downhill freeriding sports game Descenders has a big discount and two new tracks

By Liam Dawe,
Descenders is fast, smooth and most importantly for an extreme sports game - it's intense. It's also now on a big discount with some fresh content added too.

Tasty Static, clone of the classic SkyRoads has a new release out

By Liam Dawe,
Remember SkyRoads? A classic 90's racing game with a bit of a twist, that acts a bit like a platformer. It has a free clone called Tasty Static, which recently had a big update. I've been a little obsessed over it too.

Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.