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Head-swapping rogue-lite Skul: The Hero Slayer to release January 21, 2021

By Liam Squires-Hand,
SouthPAW Games and NEOWIZ have confirmed that Skul: The Hero Slayer, their head-swapping 2D rogue-lite action game will leaving Early Access on January 21, 2021.

Open-world RPG with freaky hand-painted organic locations Death Trash moves to 2021

By Liam Squires-Hand,
One particular indie game I am very excited to eventually get my hands on is Death Trash, a blending of real-time action and RPG mechanics in a very strange post-apocalyptic world.

Atari VCS has some game announcements, actually shipping soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The story of the Atari VCS is definitely an eventful one but it appears it might finally be coming to an end, with units actually about to ship and a couple of game announcements.

Valve updates Steam with more Linux improvements, new game properties UI

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A fresh Beta update for the Steam Client has rolled out and it seems Valve have begun modernising more parts of the UI, along with Linux fixes.

INZANE is an upcoming cinematic side-scroller adventure that looks awesome

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With some pretty impressive visuals at time, the upcoming side-scroller INZANE is one to keep on your watch list or help fund it if it catches your attention like it did mine.

Check out 30 minutes of the upcoming TMORPG Book of Travels

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Might and Delight (Shelter, Meadow and more) are currently developing Book of Travels which they're calling a TMORPG (Tiny Multiplayer Online RPG) and it looks seriously gorgeous.

Desperados III has a final free update as Mimimi Games move to self-publish their next

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mimimi Games are giving Desperados III a "proper goodbye" with the final free update, and it's quite an exciting one for an already amazing game.

Valve upgrade the Steam browsing experience in the latest Steam Labs experiment

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With so many thousands of games available on Steam, discovering what you want can be a serious pain in the arse and Valve are clearly aware of that with a new Steam Labs experiment.

After a new visual novel? Tokyo Re:Connect is coming to Linux with a demo up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
What looks like it could be a really high quality romance visual novel, Tokyo Re:Connect from KONEKO now has a demo available and they're crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Two bits of major news to cover for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, with some exciting major changes coming in with updates.

Amusing multiplayer party game Gang Beasts has a huge update and big sale

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Gang Beasts from Boneloaf is the super-silly party game that sees various gelatinous characters engage in brutal fisticuffs and it's bigger and better than ever.

No-combat space exploration arrives on GOG with Out There: Ω Edition

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Out There: Ω Edition, a space exploration game with no combat that you can sit back and chill with is now available DRM-free on GOG.com.

Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos releases in February 2021

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Team ADOM and Assemble Entertainment have announced that Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos will be releasing into Early Access in early 2021.

Explore, hatch monsters and train in Monster Sanctuary out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Monster Sanctuary from Moi Rai Games and Team17 has now left Early Access as a finished game, along with a bunch of extra content in the 1.0 update.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine Daggerfall Unity now feature complete

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Daggerfall Unity is the open source game engine built with Unity for running the 1996 classic The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall and it's coming along very nicely.

Standalone Steam Controller driver and UI 'SC Controller' gets a sweet small upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand,
SC Controller is a pretty essential standalone user-mode driver and configuration UI for working with the Steam Controller, and it just got the first stable update in some time.

Stadia gets direct to YouTube livestreaming, a new home page, new games and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It feels like over the last month or so that Google finally woke up on Stadia, as they have continued to repeatedly push out new features and content for the platform.

Oxygen Not Included - Spaced Out! released into Early Access

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Klei are back with their great space colony sim with the Oxygen Not Included - Spaced Out! expansion now available in Early Access with Linux support.

Rogue-lite dungeon crawler Tallowmere 2 is over the top and ridiculously fun

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Tallowmere 2 could easily be a contender for my own personal Early Access GOTY as developer Chris McFarland has managed to craft an absolutely brilliant game here.

You can now build a theme park online with others in Parkitect

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After being out for two years, Texel Raptor have now added online multiplayer to the theme park builder Parkitect.