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Open source RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 'OpenRCT2' v0.4.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
The first release this year for OpenRCT2, the open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has landed with version 0.4.4.

Humble has a bundle of Survivors-Like games, including Boneraiser Minions (a favourite)

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your chance to jump into the Survivors-Like games phenomenon, so I guess that's what we're calling games like Vampire Survivors now? Survivors-Like? Humble Bundle has some good picks here.

Stop an organism spreading and protect humanity in Xenospore, now with a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
The free game Xenospore sees you try to stop the spread of a strange and deadly organism and there's a big upgrade out now.

Dark sci-fi roguelike Deadnaut: Signal Lost looks great and it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Deadnaut: Signal Lost from the developer of Deadnaut, Zafehouse Diaries and Fear Equation is officially out now with Native Linux support.

Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari DLC releases April 13th

By Liam Dawe,
As if it hasn't sucked away enough of our free time already right? Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari is arriving on April 13th.

GOG giving away Deep Sky Derelicts during the finale of their Spring Sale

By Liam Dawe,
The fourth and final giveaway on GOG during their Spring Sale is for Deep Sky Derelicts, a tactical roguelike RPG set in a grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the galaxy.

Vulkan gets a new extension to improve shaders with help from Nintendo

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which Nintendo contributed towards.

NVIDIA release details of security issues and release new drivers

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA issued a new Security Bulletin, to advise you to update your GPU drivers due to multiple security issues discovered.

Story-driven emotional action-adventure RPG 'Dreamed Away' gets a demo

By Liam Dawe,
Dreamed Away from Nicolas Petton and Pineapple Works is an upcoming emotional action-adventure RPG with psychological horror elements. There's now a demo available to try.

Stories from the Outbreak, a zombie roguelike RPG out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Stories from the Outbreak from Coldwild Games, an indie game development company from Latvia, creators of "Merchant of the Skies", "Luna's Fishing Garden" and the "Lazy Galaxy" series hits Early Access.

Europa Universalis IV: Domination releasing April 18th

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox has confirmed the Europa Universalis IV: Domination expansion is now releasing on April 18th.

Retro racer Super Indie Karts got upgraded with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
While Super Indie Karts already had Native Linux support, it's nice to see another developer making improvements for Steam Deck too.

The Pale Beyond sold 10% of copies on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Here's an interesting data point for you, The Pale Beyond a polar exploration game set in an unforgiving frozen wasteland managed to do well on the Steam Deck.

Get some glorious Boomer Shooters in this new bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Love running around blowing everything up? There's a quality new game selection in the Best of Boomer Shooters bundle.

Creature collecting life-sim mix Moonstone Island looks wonderful

By Liam Dawe,
I'm not big on life sims personally but add creature collecting into the mix? I'm there. Moonstone Island looks sweet.

Blender 3.5 is out now with fancy new hair

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to show how great open source is, the Blender team have released Blender 3.5 with some really fancy new features.

Monster collecting fusion game Cassette Beasts releasing in April

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to collect creatures? How about transforming into them? Okay how about fusing them together? Cassette Beasts is what you need then.

System76 announce new Gazelle laptop, 13th Gen Intel paired with NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe,
What System76 said is their "most budget-friendly laptop which features a discrete GPU", the new Gazelle laptop has been announced.

OBS Studio 29.1 Beta 1 brings AV1 / HEVC over RTMP

By Liam Dawe,
The team working on the free and open source video recording and livestreaming software OBS Studio, have released the first Beta for version 29.1 with a big new feature.

Short underwater survival game FarSky now free on itch.io

By Liam Dawe,
After closing up shop back in 2022, Farsky Interactive have now revived their game FarSky and made it free on itch.io.