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Rain Games launch a Kickstarter for Girl Genius - Adventures In Castle Heterodyne

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2020

Based on the multi-award winning Girl Genius comic series, Rain Games (known for Teslagrad, World to the West) have launched their first Kickstarter for Girl Genius - Adventures In Castle Heterodyne.

One Lonely Outpost looks like a promising upcoming space farming sim

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2020

Space farming? On a barren alien world? So it's like a sci-fi Stardew Valley? One Lonely Outpost has my attention recently and it looks sweet.

Mythicard is an oddly relaxing free online card battler in Early Access for Linux PC

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2020

Available in Early Access, Mythicard has a fresh take on battling online with cards and it's free to play so you can jump right in and try it out.

Skullgirls developer Lab Zero lays off everyone who hadn't quit

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2020

Things continue not going well for Lab Zero Games, after many essential staff up and quit over the behaviour of studio owner Mike Zaimont.

Vlambeer celebrates 10 years of indie dev by announcing time is up

By Liam Dawe, 2 Sep 2020

Vlambeer were an indie developer duo consisting of Jan Willem Nijman and Rami Ismail. They recently hit the 10 year mark, and decided to celebrate by announcing Vlambeer is shutting.

Relic Hunters Legend has its Early Access delayed, closing to new Founders soon

By Liam Dawe, 27 Aug 2020

Relic Hunters Legend, an upcoming free to play online co-op shoot and loot game from Rogue Snail was due to go into Early Access this year but they've given a pretty big update on what's happening.

Club Manager 2022 / Anstoss 2022 fully funded, coming to Linux PC and with multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 26 Aug 2020

Club Manager 2022 / Anstoss 2022 has now completed its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, and thanks to that the Linux PC version is confirmed after hitting a stretch goal during it.

Explore dungeons and do a little tower defense in Dwerve, demo and Kickstarter up

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2020

Florida based game dev Half Human Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign and a demo for Dwerve, a mixture of dungeon crawling and tower defense in one.

Ubisoft renews their funding commitment to Blender

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2020

The good news for the open source application Blender just keeps flowing, after Unity announced their support for funding Blender only recently, now Ubisoft will be continuing with their funding as they've renewed their relationship with Blender.

The Linux port of fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds is coming along

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2020

The Mane6 development team have posted a short but slightly amusing update on the upcoming Linux port of the fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds.

Blender pulls in another funding partner with Unity

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2020

Joining many other companies that seemingly woke up to actually supporting free and open source software, Unity has now pledged funding towards Blender.

For the People is a political management visual novel out now

By Liam Dawe, 21 Aug 2020

Mixing up the visual novel genre with a little management and plenty of politics, For the People from Brezg Studio is out now with Linux PC support.

Half Human Games announced Dwerve, a tower defense and dungeon crawler RPG hybrid

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2020

Today, Half Human Games announced Dwerve, a tower defense game that mixes in dungeon crawling and it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

Story-driven platformer metroidvania Clunky Hero gets new trailer and IndieGoGo campaign

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2020

After a successful crowdfunding campaign, Nicola Piovesan of Estonian team Chaosmonger Studio is now doing an extra funding campaign for Clunky Hero. Plus, there's a new trailer.

Anstoss 2022 / Club Manager 2022 hits the goal for Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2020

Reviving a classic from the days of the Amiga, Anstoss 2022 / Club Manager 2022 is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter with 5 days to go. Thankfully, it's hit the stretch-goal to properly support Linux.

An interview with Elden Pixels, creators of Alwa's Legacy and Alwa's Awakening

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2020

As part of our ongoing series of speaking to indie game developers, we had a chat with Mikael Forslind of Elden Pixels.

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

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2020

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, 17 Aug 2020

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, 15 Aug 2020

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.