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Steal everything and flee from the Burning Knight - out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With some great lighting work, furious action and a good sprinkle of comedy Burning Knight is an fast-paced roguelike that's out now.

June's Humble Choice is out with Supraland, Overload, Barotrauma and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Looks like the June 2020 Humble Choice is a pretty good one filled with some highly rated games. Time to take a quick look over what's on offer.

Interviewed - Veloren, an upcoming FOSS multiplayer voxel RPG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Today we have something a bit special for you, an interview with one of the team working to produce the free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG named Veloren.

A new update to Stoneshard makes ranged combat a lot more interesting

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Stoneshard, an Early Access turn-based and open-world RPG from Ink Stains Games that has a ridiculously huge amount of potential just had another big update.

Tower Defense with a sprinkle of Deck-Building, Core Defense launches July 31

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After being available in an Early Access stage on itch.io, with a demo available in the form of Core Defense: Prelude, the full Core Defense game is now set to launch on July 31.

Build an interplanetary industrial rail network in Space Trains

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Two awesome things together: space and trains. I'm not going to question how that's even possible but it sounds like quite a fun little mix of strategy and puzzles.

Simply Puzzles: Codewords brings 100 code-cracking puzzles to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Enjoy a good codewords puzzle and in need of some more? Simply Puzzles: Codewords released recently with 100 levels to tease your brain with.

FOSS transport building sim OpenTTD adds official Ubuntu 20.04 packages

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to jump into the latest version of OpenTTD and you're on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Good news, they now have some official packages setup for it.

Hidden Folks merges DLC into the game, big update out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Hidden Folks, a somewhat hilarious hidden-object game that's like a much more interactive 'Where's Wally?' has a huge update.

Xbox One wireless dongle driver for Linux 'xow' gets a new release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
xow is another fantastic bit of open source, enabling the use of an Xbox One wireless dongle on Linux to be a much nicer experience overall.

elementary OS now allows updates without admin permission

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As part of the ongoing work to reduce authentication fatigue, the elementary OS team are going over everything with a fine-tooth comb to ensure asking for admin / root permission makes sense.

KeeperRL Alpha 30 adds Gnomes and enemies that steal your lair

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Michał Brzozowski, developer of long-running roguelike KeeperRL, announced the release of the Alpha 30 and it's big with some seriously fun sounding features.

Stadia exclusive Crayta will show off the unique State Share feature

By Liam Squires-Hand,
State Share, one of the features of Stadia that Google announced early on looks to be finally coming along with the release of the Stadia exclusive Crayta.

Keep up with Crusader Kings 3 info thanks to a new dev video

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Working from home certainly has a lot of challenges but Paradox Development Studio has continued on with Crusader Kings 3 and they have another roundup of what's to come.

Colourful cyberpunk adventure Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is the next mystery adventure set in the world of MidBoss' previous game, the well received 2064: Read Only Memories and it will be coming to Linux at release.

The Zone: Stalker Stories blends exploration, card battles and an RPG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Currently in development with an early demo due during the Steam Game Festival, The Zone: Stalker Stories sounds like a pretty special blend of gameplay features.

Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH new release in testing

By Liam Squires-Hand,
CorsixTH is a brilliant free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, enabling it to play smoothly on modern systems and other improvements.

AMD Wattman-like open source app CoreCtrl adds NAVI support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
CoreCtrl, a free and open source Linux app that's been compared to AMD's official Wattman has a brand new release out.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin to officially launch in February 2021

By Liam Squires-Hand,
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, another popular retro-FPS throwback from KillPixel and 3D Realms now finally has a release date of February 25, 2021.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus adds gamepad support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus just became more accessible than ever, thanks to Bulwark Studios adding full gamepad support and it appears to work great.