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Check out some open world gameplay from the upcoming Cassette Beasts

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

Cassette Beasts is the in-development title from Bytten Studio (previously Lenna's Inception), which is an open-world monster capture / transformation RPG inspired by Pokemon Fusion.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

OpenRCT2 is the free and open source game engine reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, adding in many advanced featured and cross-platform support.

With an incredible neon style, Vecter is an infinite racing-shooter that is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

Vecter from developer Taranasus is a free infinite racing game all about lasting as long as possible and destroying anything in your way. After launching into Early Access in November 2019, it's now officially on Linux too.

Funded and on the way to Linux, Dwerve mixes Tower Defence with dungeon crawling

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

After a slick limited-time demo and a Kickstarter campaign, the dungeon crawling / tower defence hybrid Dwerve has now managed to complete the campaign and get fully funded.

Play more classics including one from 1976 with a new ScummVM release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

ScummVM, the awesome all-in-one solution for playing tons of classic adventure and RPGs has a brand new release available which expands the games supported.

Warzone 2100 to get a graphics boost with Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 continues advancing, with a big graphics rendering overhaul recently merged in ready for the next release.

Graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' to gain Vulkan support in the 2.3 release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

As another win for both open standards and modern graphics APIs, the classic and continually improving open source graphics rendering engine OGRE will get Vulkan support in the upcoming 2.3 release.

Google announces another three games confirmed for Stadia

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

As Google continue to build up Stadia, they're gradually announcing more games coming and we have another three smaller indie titles now confirmed.

Wine 5.18 is out making use of the new vkd3d-shader library

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

The team hacking away on the Wine compatibility layer have put out another development build with Wine 5.18 now being made available.

Post-apocalyptic road-trip strategy Overland has a big 1.2 update with an all-dogs mode

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Possibly one of the most stylish turn-based strategy games around and one that's also rather difficult, Overland just had a big 1.2 update released with some funny new additions.

Another Discord voice chat overlay for Linux appears with 'Discover'

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Since the official Discord client doesn't currently support the Overlay on Linux, it's up to the community and another has been released named Discover.

After a new auto-battler? King of the Board is one to keep an eye on

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

After Dota 2 Auto Chess made the auto-battle chess-like system popular, a few more have popped up and the latest is King of the Board from developer StandArts.

Don't Starve Together gets a new animated short, plus a Wigfrid character refresh

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Klei continue going through all the characters in Don't Starve Together to bring them up to date with all the new content and game mechanics with a fresh upgrade out now.

Check out the open source 2D level editor 'LEd' from the former lead on Dead Cells

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

LEd is a very interesting project to follow for both game developers and people looking to get into it, a new free level editor with a firm aim on being user friendly.

SkateBIRD gets a demo for Tokyo Game Show 2020 try it now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Megan Fox of Glass Bottom Games announced that SkateBIRD has a demo up again, to celebrate being included in the Tokyo Game Show 2020 and you can play until September 28.

SteamTinkerLaunch is a huge all in one Linux wrapper tool for gaming

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

You all love to tinker right? SteamTinkerLaunch is an open source project to bundle together tons of available extra options for running your Steam games.

Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack announced, huge Paradox sale going on

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Paradox are set to return to my favourite grand strategy game, with the announcement of a brand new DLC coming to Stellaris with the Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack.

The next addition to the Civilization VI New Frontier Pass is out with Byzantine and Gaul

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Sid Meier's Civilization VI has another expansion out now for the New Frontier Pass with the Byzantium & Gaul Pack available now.

Challenging turn-based RPG 'Stoneshard' has a huge overhaul update out, price rising

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Ink Stains Games have released a major upgrade to the challenging turn-based RPG Stoneshard, one they've been working on for some time now and it's quite the overhaul.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By , 25 Sep 2020

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.