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Mini monster-catching MMO 'Familiars.io' heads to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Familiars.io is a very retro-styled mini-MMO about catching monsters and battling, and it's now heading to Steam.

Puny Human closing after a client 'refused previously agreed-upon payments'

By Liam Dawe,
Some more sad industry news here as developer Puny Human put out a press release noting that they're closing up, citing an unnamed client that refused to pay them.

Epic Games sheds 830 people due to 'spending way more money than we earn'

By Liam Dawe,
Recent industry news doing the rounds is from Epic Games, who yesterday publicly shared an email that was sent by Tim Sweeney about laying off 16% of the company.

Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

By Liam Dawe,
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

Steam Deck and SteamOS are great for Linux as a whole - Open Source Summit Europe 2023

By Liam Dawe,
At the recent Open Source Summit Europe 2023, Alberto Garcia a software engineer at Igalia did a talk covering Valve, Steam Deck, SteamOS and how it all helps Linux as a whole.

MonoGame plan to create a non-profit foundation to support development

By Liam Dawe,
The fallout from the big Unity mess continues, with the MonoGame team jumping in to present a new plan for the future of this open-source and cross-platform framework for game developers.

Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding

By Liam Dawe,
The fallout from Unity's recent ridiculous pricing changes and terrible communication continues, with developer Robot Gentleman now waving goodbye to Unity and joining up with Godot Engine.

Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding

By Liam Dawe,
Taking a firm stand against what Unity have been doing, Terraria developer Re-Logic announced today they've begun funding Godot Engine and FNA with a big donation and ongoing funding.

Embracer Group continues cuts with Beamdog shedding 26 people

By Liam Dawe,
Is no studio safe from cuts? Embracer Group continues trying to reduce costs and now the latest we've seen has affected Beamdog.

Plasma 6 optimized for Wayland gaming, plus compositor crash recovery

By Liam Dawe,
KDE developer Nate Graham has two quite interesting updates in regards to the upcoming Plasma 6 desktop release, including some fun optimizations landing.

The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund

By Liam Dawe,
The same day that Unity confused all their developers with a new pay per user install revenue model, the team behind the open source Godot Engine just announced their new Godot Development Fund.

Embracer's troubles continue as they may sell off Borderlands dev Gearbox

By Liam Dawe,
Embracer Group got a little too big it seems, and there's no such thing as too big to fail. After shutting down Volition, it appears Embracer may be about to sell off Borderlands developer Gearbox.

Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Rain Games developer of Teslagrad has just released Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne, an action adventure game based on the graphic novel series, Girl Genius, by authors Phil & Kaja Foglio.

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the Steam Deck.

To the Moon - Beach Episode gets a trailer, plus there's going to be a card game

By Liam Dawe,
Freebird Games have revealed a brand new trailer for To the Moon - Beach Episode, the next is the series of this 2D RPG adventure and there's even going to be a real-life card game.

We Stay Behind is the next game from Unforeseen Incidents developer

By Liam Dawe,
Did you enjoy Unforeseen Incidents from Backwoods Entertainment? They've revealed their new title We Stay Behind, a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality.

Godot Engine has a new funding platform and they're calling for help

By Liam Dawe,
With Godot Engine moving over to being supported by the Godot Foundation directly, they've begun pushing for people to support their efforts via their new funding platform inspired by Blender.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

By Liam Dawe,
Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.

The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 has some real indie gems

By Liam Dawe,
Another chance for you to pick up a few sweet games while also saving your pennies. The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 is live.

Competitive party game Unspottable gets online play

By Liam Dawe,
Unspottable was a lot of fun at release, giving you competitive hide and seek amongst the crowd gameplay but local multiplayer was pretty limiting. Now though, it has online play!
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