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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.

Frogsong is an upcoming heartfelt adventure game in the world of Frogs

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

Ribbit? Frogsong from developer Brandon Braun is an upcoming heartfelt adventure game set in the world of the Frogs and it really does look charming.

The fab Death Trash will be releasing on GOG in addition to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

Death Trash, an upcoming and very impressive open-world RPG is now confirmed to be getting a DRM-free release on GOG when it enters Early Access on August 5.

The 'Big Balance Update' is out now for Warzone 2100

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

After many years of upgrades for the free and open source Warzone 2100, the team hacking away at the code have issued a fresh update to focus on balancing issues.

Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Silence & The Fury releases soon as the last DLC

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Silence & The Fury is now firmly set to be the last DLC for the very popular strategy game from Creative Assembly, SEGA and porter Feral Interactive.

Astro Colony is an upcoming space sci-fi exploration and automation game

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Taking inspiration from the likes of Factorio and Space Engineers, the upcoming Astro Colony will see you explore an endless voxel universe to gather resources and create an automated colony.

Heroes of Might and Magic II reimplementation sees a big AI improvement

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

fheroes2 is ensuring that the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II can never die, and with the latest version out now it's more interesting to play than ever before.

Humble Choice for July is up with a fresh set of games to pick from

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) is the subscription service from Humble Bundle where each month they give you a fresh set of a games to redeem.

SteamVR 1.18 is out supporting async-reprojection with NVIDIA on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

After another while testing Beta versions, the latest SteamVR upgrade is out now although it's quite a small one with mostly minor improvements overall.

Beyond Sunset looks like a dreamy synthpunk retro sci-fi FPS

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Need more retro-looking FPS goodness? Beyond Sunset is a recent discovery and it sure does look good.

Fun free party game Hammer Dongers gets a visual upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

In the free game Hammer Dongers up to four players run around small arenas attempting to take each other down, with the hook here that your hammers destroy the terrain around you.