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Valve use a little code from Godot for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

This is the beauty of open source in action - everyone can benefit. Valve are no stranger to open source, and as it turns out they're using a little bit of code from Godot Engine now too.

Team Fortress 2 major update released and source available for modders via the Source SDK

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

It wasn't just Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source that received big updates today, as Valve also published a new update for Team Fortress 2 along with updating the Source SDK to include TF2!

Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source get major updates with 64bit support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

A nice surprise for some classic Valve games today with multiple titles like Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source getting major updates.

Broken Shell is the cutest looking love story adventure of two little hermit crabs

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

You ever look at a game and just think - "wow, this looks truly lovely"? That's the feeling I got from seeing Broken Shell and I can't wait to see it release.

Cropdeck blends farming and deckbuilders together to make a wonderful looking mix

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes Cropdeck. Described by the developer as the "ultimate farming roguelite deckbuilder" and it really looks quite charming.

FACEMINER will have you scale up your A.I. surveillance empire on February 27

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

A narrative-driven management simulation that plunges players into the heart of a 90s-era data harvesting and artificial intelligence empire, FACEMINER is set for release on February 27th.

OCCT for stress-testing comes to Linux and Steam Deck, with a Steam release planned

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

OCCT has long been a popular tool for PC stability and performance testing on Windows, and now it's officially been made available for Linux in Alpha, including Steam Deck support too.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 46: Bursting Bubbles

By Hamish, 18 Feb 2025

I have had my fair share of success in running games released up to around 2004 or so, but after that I do begin to encounter more issues with binary compatibility.

Is This Seat Taken? is a thoroughly charming puzzle game about swapping seats

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

With a demo now available, Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderfully charming idea for a logic puzzle game about picking up people and putting them in the right seat.

AI is everywhere in AI Confidential and it's your job to fix up all the robots - check out the demo

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

In a world where Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, you work for an AI megacorp and you're the one sent around to people's homes to fix up all their problems.

SUPER DEBT is a twin-stick bullet-hell dungeon crawler where time eats away your money

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

Things get weird real fast in SUPER DEBT, a new bullet-hell dungeon crawler from developer zagawee, who also made Garbanzo Quest.

Final Outpost is hopping over from mobile to PC with a Definitive Edition - demo available now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

Exabyte Games announced they're bringing their popular survival strategy base-builder to PC with Final Outpost: Definitive Edition. There's a demo available now with Native Linux support.

Check out the demo for Replicube an open-ended programming puzzle game from Walaber

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

From Walaber Entertainment who made Parking Garage Rally Circuit and JellyCar Worlds, their next game is Replicube. There's a demo now available to try and it looks really interesting.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a new release out, which finally adds an in-game settings menu so you don't have to quit your current game to adjust things.

The beautiful diorama builder Tiny Glade adds controller support

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2025

After previously making some improvements for Steam Deck, developer Pounce Light have now implemented more proper controller support for Tiny Glade.

Tomb Raider II open source re-implementation adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

Dwarf Fortress has some exciting plans for the future

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2025

With Adventure Mode out now, the Dwarf Fortress team are looking ahead and it's sounding quite exciting with some big features coming to the game.

Mudborne is a cozy sim about collecting and breeding frogs releasing in March with a new demo up

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2025

From the developer of chilled beekeeping sim APICO, their next game Mudborne: Frog Management Sim is set for release on World Frog Day (March 20th) with a brand new demo.

With a unique copy and paste mechanic Ruffy and the Riverside is a demo worthy of your time

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2025

Ruffy and the Riverside is releasing with Linux support later this year (hopefully - no set date) but you can try it early thanks to a demo release now available.