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Core Keeper 1.0 planned for Summer 2024, dev says it's had 2 million downloads

By Liam Dawe,
Next on my list to complete once my current run through co-op Terraria is done with, Core Keeper is another wonderful mining sandbox adventure and the 1.0 release has now been set with a new content roadmap to Summer 2024.

Inspired by Doom and Deus Ex, Beyond Sunset enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for more retro-styled carnage? Another GZDoom powered game has launched on Steam with Beyond Sunset now in Early Access.

Path of Titans' Pounce Update brings new dino combat mechanics

By Liam Dawe,
Path of Titans is steadily building up to be a really good-looking dinosaur survival MMO, and with the Pounce Update the combat should be a lot more exciting now too.

Devolver Digital acquires ASTRONEER developer System Era Softworks

By Liam Dawe,
Devolver Digital has now acquired System Era Softworks, who made the popular space exploration and industry game ASTRONEER.

Survival game Vintage Story has another big tech upgrade coming

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story is a challenging open-world survival game inspired by eldritch horror themes, certainly quite different to a lot of survival games out there with some really impressive depth to the mechanics and it's about to get much more impressive.

Valheim testing a Unity upgrade with lots of optimizations

By Liam Dawe,
Iron Gate announced a new public test release Beta of Valheim, which brings with it a Unity game engine upgrade that includes multiple performance enhancements to improve the game. So time to get testing.

ARK: Survival Ascended out now and enabled BattlEye for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Studio Wildcard with Grove Street Games and Instinct Games have released ARK: Survival Ascended, a full Unreal Engine 5 remake of ARK: Survival Evolved and it's playable on Steam Deck.

Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
Now that Minecraft Live is over the developers have begun pushing out preview builds ahead of the upcoming release of Minecraft 1.21. A fresh Snapshot was just released with new features like the Crafter block.

Minecraft hits 300 million sales, update 1.21 announced with trial chambers

By Liam Dawe,
Mojang has announced that Minecraft has now crossed over 300 million sales, and the Minecraft 1.21 update has been announced that will have some pretty fun additions. Here's a short round-up from 2023's Minecraft Live.

Core Keeper 'Shimmering Frontier' update is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The great underground exploration, adventure and crafting survival game Core Keeper has a big new update out in Shimmering Frontier.

Minecraft Live returns October 15, you're voting for the Penguin right?

By Liam Dawe,
Linux gamers, it's your time to shine. Minecraft Live is coming up again on October 15th where Mojang will do another vote on what mob to add next so obviously you're going to vote for the Penguin right?

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition arrives on Steam in 'early 2024'

By Liam Dawe,
Finally it's confirmed! Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition is coming to Steam (and EGS) with Nixxes Software teaming up with Guerrilla to make it happen.

No Man's Sky - Echoes Update is out adding a secret society of robotic aliens

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is quite an expected update, No Man's Sky - Echoes is live as another free upgrade for players and it's a pretty big update for the game full of new content.

Sweet beekeeping sim APICO update 3.0 heads to the ocean

By Liam Dawe,
What do beekeeping and ocean exploration have in common? Well they will both be in the APICO 3.0 update that's planned to arrive this "fall".

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty new trailer live, plus big free update coming

By Liam Dawe,
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is an upcoming paid expansion for the open world game from CD PROJEKT RED. Here's all the new details for you.

Blending GTA with Deus Ex, Streets of Rogue 2 gets a first trailer

By Liam Dawe,
As a big fan of the original game, I'm very excited for Streets of Rogue 2. Giving you a big unpredictable open world that combines elements of GTA, Deus Ex and various sandbox games. The first trailer was shown off during Gamescom.

No Man’s Sky has a teaser for the 'Echoes' update to celebrate 7 years

By Liam Dawe,
Coming soon they say, a fresh big update to No Man's Sky is on the way and they're celebrating 7 years since the release with a new video.

Free sandbox game inspired by Minecraft 'MineClone2' v0.84 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
MineClone2 continues getting better and better as a free and open source replacement of Minecraft, with version 0.84 out now. Here's a run over what's new and improved.

Multiplayer voxel RPG 'Veloren' v0.15 is out adding the first world boss

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and continuing to expand! Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Version 0.15 is out now and sounds fun.

The latest Volcanoids update looks electrifying

By Liam Dawe,
Volcanoids is pretty great and a game I keep going back to with each major update, and it looks like they're going to sucker me right in again.
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