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The afterlife is an office job of choosing who lives and dies in Death and Taxes

By Liam Dawe,
Placeholder Gameworks (great name!) have just recently released Death and Taxes, a game set in the afterlife where you take on the role of the Grim Reaper only it's not quite what you expect.

Space Grunts 2 shows how versatile a deck-builder can be and it's good

By Liam Dawe,
With how popular deck-builders have become, it's no surprise to see many developers have a go at it. Orangepixel have with Space Grunts 2 and after playing it, I'm really enjoying it.

Oxygen Not Included still 'fully in development' with first DLC hopefully this Autumn

By Liam Dawe,
Klei Entertainment have given an update on their plans for continued support of the colony survival/building game Oxygen Not Included and they confirmed it's still 'fully in development'.

Deck-building card battler 'Dreamgate' is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Dreamgate, a turn-based deck-building battler is now out in Early Access with Linux support giving you another game that wants you to have just one more turn.

Robotality give Pathway a big update with a challenging Hardcore Mode

By Liam Dawe,
Pathway, the strategy adventure set in the 1930s from Robotality recently had a huge update if you need something to challenge you this is it.

RimWorld 1.1 is out with a first expansion with RimWorld - Royalty

By Liam Dawe,
Ludeon Studios dropped a sneaky one, not only did they release the big RimWorld 1.1 update they also released the first big expansion named RimWorld - Royalty.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?

By Liam Dawe,
It's been quite some time since we last had an open discussion about what you've all been playing recently. Let's get things going again.

Check out 'Aseprite' a popular cross-platform pixel-art tool to create 2D animations and sprites

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
Aseprite is a useful tool for artists, game developers and anyone interested in pixel art that's been around for nearly two decades and it's highly rated.

NVIDIA talk up bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
With Ray Tracing becoming ever more popular, NVIDIA have written up a technical post on bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan to encourage more developers to do it.

LunarG's Vulkan developer survey results out now - Vulkan also turns 4

By Liam Dawe,
LunarG, the software company that Valve sponsors who work on building out the ecosystem for the Vulkan API recently conducted a Vulkan developer survey with the results out now.

Popular free rhythm game 'osu!' now provides a Linux build with releases

By Liam Dawe,
osu!, going under the current development name of osu!lazer is a very popular free rhythm game and they're now doing official builds for Linux gamers.

Canonical need a little testing hand for a newer Steam package on Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe,
With Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" being released in the next few months, the team over at Canonical are looking for a little help testing their updated Steam package.

Proton 5.0-3 for Steam Play released, Direct3D 12 support for Metro Exodus

By Liam Dawe,
Another small release in terms of noted changes but still an interested one, with today seeing Proton 5.0-3 for Steam Play being made available.

Furiously intense ball-smashing game 'Lethal League Blaze' is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Today, Team Reptile announced they have officially released a Linux build for their intense sports game Lethal League Blaze.

Extreme top-down racing game 'Bloody Rally Show' is out now and it's good

By Liam Dawe,
Bloody Rally Show has been mentioned here a few times, as the developer gave GOL early access to test it and it's a top-down racer I've certainly enjoyed watching grow.

Dungeon-building RTS 'Dungeons 3' has another DLC out with a claim of it being final

By Liam Dawe,
I'm not sure I believe it. Kalypso Media and Realmforge Studios just put out a brand new DLC for the delightfully silly dungeon-building RTS Dungeons 3 with a claim that it's the final one.

Some early thoughts and exploration in The Longing, a game that takes 400 days to finish

By Liam Dawe,
The Longing is a game that takes 400 real days to complete, a game that’s pretty much impossible to review but I’ve played quite a number of hours now to get an idea of what to expect from it. Since this is something of a short preview, a few spoilers may be contained.

Challenging turn-based RPG 'Stoneshard' now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
True to their word, Ink Stains Games have delivered a Linux version of their open-world turn-based RPG Stoneshard that's currently in Early Access.

Big games of Stellaris are going to run a lot smoother in the 2.6.0 update

By Liam Dawe,
Along with the major expansion coming to Stellaris with Federations, Paradox Development Studio as expected are working on a huge free patch and it's sounding good.

There's going to be more customization in Dota Underlords with the full release next week

By Liam Dawe,
Next week, Valve will push Dota Underlords out the door as it leaves Early Access and with that the first full gameplay Season will begin.