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Five years later, free and open source DDraceNetwork is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
DDraceNetwork, originally just a mod for the platform shooter Teeworlds that eventually spawned its own game is now up and free on Steam.

The impressive Seasons Update for wilderness survival sandbox Vintage Story is out

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story, the wilderness survival sandbox inspired by lovecraftian horror themes with some impressive depth to it has a huge new stable release up.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.5.1 released

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to be the go-to for people needing a good HUD while gaming, MangoHud has a new release up.

Powerful Linux video editor Kdenlive gets a huge new release

By Liam Dawe,
Promising to be more stable and feature-filled, the Linux video editor Kdenlive has a massive new release out.

Roguelike shoot 'em up Good Robot is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
Fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up Good Robot released in 2016 from Pyrodactyl has now had the code opened up under the MIT license.

Anstoss 2022 / Club Manager 2022 hits the goal for Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Reviving a classic from the days of the Amiga, Anstoss 2022 / Club Manager 2022 is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter with 5 days to go. Thankfully, it's hit the stretch-goal to properly support Linux.

An interview with Elden Pixels, creators of Alwa's Legacy and Alwa's Awakening

By Liam Dawe,
As part of our ongoing series of speaking to indie game developers, we had a chat with Mikael Forslind of Elden Pixels.

OpenRCT2, the open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a major update

By Liam Dawe,
You don't always have to give up classics, thanks to open source. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living on with a fresh update of the re-implementation OpenRCT2.

Vagrus - The Riven Realms manages to break $100K on Fig with Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
What's become quite an ongoing indie success story is Vagrus - The Riven Realms, an incredibly interesting post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG-strategy hybrid.

Libretro / RetroArch were hacked, wiping some repositories

By Liam Dawe,
In an announcement, the Libretro / RetroArch mentioned how the Libretro / RetroArch organization on GitHub was attacked by hackers and they managed to do quite a bit of damage.

A weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently

By Liam Dawe,
Another week has dragged on and here we are, the weekend. It's time to go over a few little bits and find out what our readers have been playing this week.

Free and open source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a huge new release out

By Liam Dawe,
Veloren is an in-development open-world and open source voxel RPG, it shows a massive amount of promise and a brand new release is out for you to try.

Want more professional Godot Engine tutorials? Check out this new Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in game development? Godot Engine is a constantly improving free, open source and high quality game engine and one developer is trying to push out more professional content to help people using it.

Dota 2 - The International 10 close to a record for the Battle Pass, new Collector’s Cache

By Liam Dawe,
The International 10, Dota 2's upcoming major tournament is getting close to breaking another record for the prize pool. Plus there's a new Collector's Cache up.

Papercraft tactical RPG 'Wildermyth' is now massively better after recent updates

By Liam Dawe,
Wildermyth, a tactical turn-based RPG with a Papercraft styled design that's like a tabletop RPG mixed with XCOM has recently had some pretty huge tech upgrades.

Wine 5.15 is out with XACT work and Direct Input improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Another two weeks and another development release of Wine has been let out to breathe, here's the highlights of Wine 5.15 that will eventually become Wine 6.0.

The Vaporum: Lockdown teaser has me wanting more

By Liam Dawe,
Vaporum: Lockdown is the upcoming prequel to 2017's Vaporum, a first-person real-time dungeon crawler that impressed with the graphical style and the gameplay.

Rip Them Off is an upcoming blend of tower defense and satirical economic management

By Liam Dawe,
Tower defense mixed blended with an economic management puzzle that has a satirical take on capitalism? Can't say I remember any other game that blends such elements together.

Over 8 years in development later, Factorio is properly out now

By Liam Dawe,
Originally crowdfunded on IndieGoGo back in 2013, who would have thought this 2D game about building conveyor belts across a big map would be such a big hit? A great many years later, 8+ in total and here we are. Factorio has now left Early Access as a proper full game.

Evolution sim The Sapling expands in September with massive new features

By Liam Dawe,
Indie game dev Wessel Stoop has announced their evolution sim, The Sapling, will be getting a first proper major update since entering Early Access in 2019.