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Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony gets another big update in the 3.1 release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2021

After the recent 3.0 release of Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony, a free FPS inspired by WWII shooters from the 90's and early 2000's they gathered a lot of feedback and another release is out now.

Splitgate the FPS with portals (formerly Splitgate: Arena Warfare) is confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2021

Splitgate, originally called Splitgate: Arena Warfare, is going through a huge overhaul and relaunching on July 27 and now Linux support is confirmed.

Draft of Darkness is a survival horror deck building dungeon crawler out July 30

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2021

Ready for another game that will truly mash a bunch of genres together? Draft of Darkness is confirmed to be entering Early Access on July 30.

Lona: Realm Of Colors is a short artsy adventure that looks quite astonishing

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2021

Lona: Realm Of Colors is a short adventure that focuses on bringing various paintings to life based on the protagonists conflicting emotions.

Save creatures from disaster in Panic Mode, a 3D Lemmings-like in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2021

With creatures inspired by the idea of the classic Lemmings games, in Panic Mode you need to safely guide a bunch of 'pammies' out of various dangerous situations.

Proton Experimental adds VKD3D-Proton 2.4 and some more fixes

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2021

Another smaller update to Proton Experimental has arrived, the special version of Proton where the latest enhancements come in before rolling out to the main Proton builds.

Linux Mint 20.2 is out now with upgrades from 20 and 20.1 possible

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

The Linux Mint team have now released the latest Linux Mint 20.2 which comes with either Cinnamon, MATE or Xfce.

Muck is a crazy-popular free procedural survival game out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

What seems to have come out of nowhere is Muck, a brand new survival game that blends in some random generation to make each playthrough different and it's now on Linux.

X3: Farnham's Legacy now available for Linux with Linux fixes for other games live

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

Egosoft announced today that the free DLC X3: Farnham's Legacy that was released back in April is now officially out with a Linux build and there's more.

XWayland 21.1.2 is out now with support for hardware accelerated NVIDIA on the 470 driver

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

A day many have been waiting for is here. Following on from NVIDIA releasing the NVIDIA 470.42.01 Beta driver that finally supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland, a brand new release of XWayland is out now.

Crash Drive 3 is a new fast-paced stunt racer out now

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

Developed by M2H, one of the teams responsible for the likes of Verdun, Tannenberg and Marooners they've just released Crash Drive 3 as the latest crazy stunt racer.

Elroy And The Aliens is an upcoming world-saving sci-fi adventure

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

Developer Motiviti has announced Elroy And The Aliens, a fresh modern point & click adventure where you deal with a father who vanished 18 years ago in suspicious circumstances.

The Machinery game engine launches the Early Adopters program

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

Our Machinery has announced the availability of their game engine The Machinery with an Early Adopters program that gives a discount on the licensing, although it's free if your team pulls in less than $100K.

The major 'Summer Update' is out for Transport Fever 2

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

Following on from the Vulkan upgrade, Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer Urban Games have released the next major upgrade for Transport Fever 2.

VKD3D-Proton 2.4 is out with performance improvements for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

VKD3D-Proton is the project that Valve funds to act as a translation layer between Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Steam Play Proton and a big new release is out.

Killer Bundle 18 from Fanatical has Shadow Tactics, Warhammer Gladius and more

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

In need of some new games and don't know where to look? Here to help! Fanatical just recently launched the Killer Bundle 18 and it's a pretty good one.

The 'Homesteading' update for survival game Vintage Story is shaping up to be huge

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

With a whole decoration system coming, survival game Vintage Story is going to be expanding in a big way with the upcoming Homesteading update that has a Release Candidate out now.

Indoorlands is a special kind of theme park builder arriving July 14

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

Indoorlands from Pixelsplit is an upcoming game about building theme parks. It's piqued our curiosity due to the idea of everything being inside, and the way you design things.

The International 10 for Dota 2 gets a new location and date

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

After Valve announced recently that after Sweden decided against allowing it to happen, that they would look elsewhere and they've now settled with Bucharest, Romania at the country's largest stadium — Arena Nationala.