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Re-Logic celebrate 15 years of Terraria - 70 million sales, cross-play soon and more updates to come

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Developers Re-Logic are celebrating a huge 15 years of the side-scrolling survival crafting adventure game Terraria with it still going strong.

Minecraft Java finally gets a Friends List and Peer-to-Peer multiplayer

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 7 arrived for Minecraft Java, and finally it's making playing with friends simpler with a Friends List feature and expanded multiplayer.
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Facepunch launches s&box, the highly anticipated successor to Garry's Mod

By Liam Squires-Hand,
s&box from Facepunch is the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod. Built with Source 2, it's a full game creation platform that's quite a lot closer to Roblox.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is the popular free and open source voxel game engine powering some really fun experiences and a critical update is out now.

Hytale update 4 is another absolute whopper with over 500 new blocks

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Hytale has a big update 4 now available, and it's ridiculously big with absolutely loads of new content available including over 500 new blocks.

Chaos Cubed announced as another big update for Minecraft with a unique new mob

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While the Tiny Takeover game drop update hasn't released yet, Mojang are already announcing the next big update to Minecraft called Chaos Cubed.

Thief-like open source game project The Dark Mod 2.14 released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Inspired by the classic stealth game series Thief, the free and open source project The Dark Mod has a new release out.

Smash everything apart together as Teardown goes multiplayer on March 12

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The physics-based voxel destruction game Teardown is set for a huge free upgrade on March 12th, when the multiplayer update arrives.

Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Hypixel Studios continue building up Hytale during Early Access with Patch 3 out now that adds in a ridiculous amount of additions to the game.

Physics building game Besiege heads into space with The Broken Beyond expansion

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Besiege is going to the final frontier with the newly announced The Broken Beyond expansion.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15 brings UI improvements, mod upgrades and a big performance boost

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The open-source voxel game creation platform Luanti (formerly Minetest) version 5.15 was recently released with an assortment of upgrades.

Belle Citique blends a little Tiny Glade and Townscaper into a fresh sandbox builder

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If you enjoy your more casual chilled building games, Belle Citique looks like one that brings something fresh to the table.

Terraria 1.4.5 the absolutely huge Bigger and Boulder update is now live

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With a huge bumper of additional content for the game, Terraria version 1.4.5 the "Bigger and Boulder" update is now officially live.

Multiple years later Terraria 1.4.5 has a release date for January 27th

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Wow, they've been cooking for a while on this one huh? Terraria 1.4.5 will officially arrive January 27th and it's going to be massive.

Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It has been a long road for Hytale but the sandbox exploration RPG is now officially out in Early Access, with Native Linux support.

Nightwater looks like a curious blend of secrets, exploration, crafting and automation

By Liam Squires-Hand,
One to stick into your list to keep an eye on is Nightwater, an open world exploration game that mixes in crafting and automation in a strange world.

Minecraft is getting a cute overhaul of baby mobs

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Minecraft has a new testing build out that ups the cute factor by a lot, with an overhaul of various baby mobs and you get pet nametags now too.

Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental"

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A fresh update on the upcoming game Hytale which will no doubt be quite popular, and it will have what they now say is "experimental" Linux support.

Mounts of Mayhem released for Minecraft with new mobs, weapons and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
One missed from earlier this week with the onslaught of news - Mounts of Mayhem released for Minecraft as the latest major update for the popular sandbox game.

The response to s&box from Facepunch going open source has been "overwhelmingly positive"

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Open source rocks so it's pleasing to see it go well for Facepunch with s&box. They've now added native Linux binaries for the dedicated server and game client.
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