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Dandara, a gravity-defying 2d metroidvania platformer that's worth a look

By Liam Dawe, 10 Apr 2019

Have you played Dandara? It's a 2d metroidvania platformer that's pretty unique, as you don't run along platforms like other similar games. Instead, you defy gravity by zipping from place to place and it's very interesting to play.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 shows more great progress, many more titles now playable

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2019

The emulation scene is very much alive and well, with the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 continuing to show awesome progress.

The EU is going after Valve and others for "geo-blocking", a statement from Valve

By Liam Dawe, 5 Apr 2019

It seems Valve and five publishers have attracted the attention of the EU, as they claim they're breaching EU competition rules.

Another small Steam Client Beta is up, better support for NTFS mounts on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Apr 2019

Another Steam Client Beta update went live yesterday, as Valve continue to polish up the experience.

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Risk of Rain 2 works very nicely on Linux thanks to Steam Play, it's also pretty crazy

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2019

Risk of Rain 2 from Hopoo Games and Gearbox Publishing recently entered Early Access, it’s already become massively popular and thanks to Steam Play we’re not missing out.

Paradox Interactive and Romero Games have teamed up for a new strategy game

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2019

While details are ridiculously light right now as it has only just been teased, Paradox Interactive and Romero Games have teamed up.

A third Shelter game has been announced, this time you're an elephant

By Liam Dawe, 2 Apr 2019

Announced yesterday and it's very real (not an April Fools), Shelter 3 from Might and Delight won't be arriving until next year.

Wine 4.5 is now officially out with more Media Foundation APIs, Vulkan 1.1 and more

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2019

Released late yesterday, the Wine team officially put out a new development release with Wine 4.5 now available.

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Valve have now officially teased their own VR headset with Valve Index

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2019

While details are extremely light, we now know Valve's VR headset is called the Valve Index and more details are coming soon.

The action-RPG 'Last Epoch' has a huge new build out, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2019

Last Epoch is turning out to be an impressive action-RPG with good Linux support, with a developer I've been impressed with and a huge new feature-filled build is out.

Robot Wants It All, a compilation of mini-Metroidvania games is releasing soon with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2019

Robot Wants It All is not just one game, it's a bunch of games originally written by Mike Hommel in Flash over the course of several years. They're now being bundled together in an updated form and the release is coming soon.