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Privacy-focused Linux vendor Purism announces the stylish Librem Mini

By Liam Dawe,
11
Purism aren't a company we cover here often, as their devices aren't usually gaming related. However, they did just announce a mini-PC that looks and sounds rather lovely called the Librem Mini.
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Linux hardware vendor System76 will have their own Keyboard out this year

By Liam Dawe,
45
System76 do a lot of things, they've steadily grown to a point where they make their own desktops and now they're expanding further into making more hardware.
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Steam Game Festival live with demos and the Interactive Recommender is up for all

By Liam Dawe,
9
Two bits of Steam store news today: firstly there's a Steam Game Festival "Spring Edition" going on to highlight some good looking games, a few of which will come to Linux and there's some demos. Plus the Interactive Recommender leaves Steam Labs.
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Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release

By Liam Dawe,
56
Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer.
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No Plan B is a tactical strategy game coming from the creator of Gladiabots

By Liam Dawe,
7
No Plan B needed here apparently, as your first idea always works right? You better hope so. No Plan B is a tactical strategy game from GFX47, the creator of the AI combat arena Gladiabots.
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Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse Part 1 will arrive on Steam this Summer

By Liam Dawe,
6
Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse, the crowdfunded dark comedy adventure is now going to have the first part released on Steam this Summer.
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X4: Split Vendetta expansion and a huge free 3.0 update announced for release on March 31

By Liam Dawe,
8
Get your space legs ready for X4: Foundations to expand into a much bigger game. Egosoft have now announced the X4: Split Vendetta expansion and a huge free 3.0 update will release on March 31.
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Albion Online getting a new focus on Solo and small-group play in the next updates

By Liam Dawe,
0
Albion Online is getting a few more systems overhauled in the next few updates, plus some welcome changes and additions for Solo players and small groups.
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BStone, a source port for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike adds a new OpenGL renderer

By Liam Dawe,
8
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike, two classics from the 90s have been revived thanks to the BStone open source game engine that continue seeing big updates.
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OBS Studio 25.0 is out with lots of new features for video creators

By Liam Dawe,
3
The free and open source video livestreaming and capture software, OBS Studio, has a brand new release now available with lots of new goodies to play with.
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The Division 2 live on Stadia, DOOM Eternal this week and more

By Liam Dawe,
21
Stadia now has more games available with the release of The Division 2 and the latest expansion, plus DOOM Eternal arrives on it this week. A quick look round-up of Stadia game streaming news.
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Unity 2020.1 beta is out and they're offering a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU for bug reports

By Liam Dawe,
1
The Unity team have put out the first Beta for Unity 2020.1 which will form the first of two "TECH stream" releases for this year.
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If you need an escape from reality there's some unique experiences free on itch.io right now

By Liam Dawe,
5
Need a warm cup of escapism? I sure do, and thankfully a good bunch of indie developers have decided to let people claim their games entirely free for a while.
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Super stylish action-adventure 'Resolutiion' now has a demo open for everyone to try

By Liam Dawe,
2
Resolutiion from Monolith of Minds has serious style, and I was genuinely very impressed by the special press demo. Now you can too, as Monolith have opened it up for everyone.
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Ray Tracing comes to the Vulkan API officially with new extensions - new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta out

By Liam Dawe,
13
The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.
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Brain-teasing puzzle game 'The Last Cube' looks sleek in the latest footage

By Liam Dawe,
1
The Last Cube from Improx Games is an upcoming 3D puzzle game and while the original trail piqued my interest, seeing actual gameplay has solidified my need to play it.
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Sweet puzzle game 'Pipe Push Paradise' is free to claim for a week over on itch

By Liam Dawe,
0
Continuing to hunt around for special deals to help anyone during the Coronavirus, the next up is the puzzle game Pipe Push Paradise which you can claim free for the next week.
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Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition announced for release on March 24

By Liam Dawe,
1
1C Entertainment and Snowhound Games have announced that Deep Sky Derelicts is getting a Definitive Edition on March 24 that will bundle the DLC and upgrade the base game for everyone.
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Vaporum: Lockdown delayed into later this year as the game has grown

By Liam Dawe,
1
Vaporum: Lockdown is a prequel to the 3D real-time dungeon crawler Vaporum that was pretty great, and it's now delayed but it's not all bad news.
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Deep fantasy RPG-strategy hybrid 'Vagrus - The Riven Realms' has hit another funding milestone

By Liam Dawe,
1
Vagrus - The Riven Realms continues smashing through their Open Access funding goals on Fig, this special hybrid of Crowdfunding and Early Access together seems to be paying off.
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