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Fallen London the browser-based adventure from Failbetter now has a sweet looking city

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2020

Admittedly, Fallen London is not a game I played until this week when learning of the 10 year anniversary and this browser-based narrative adventure certainly does capture your attention.

Co-op submarine sim Barotrauma has a massive 'Quality of Life Update' out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2020

Barotrauma from FakeFish, Undertow Games and Daedalic Entertainment is a 2D co-op submarine sim with survival and horror elements that showed a lot of promise and they're now trying to make it a smoother experience.

Free and open source event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2020

Creating awesome 2D games can be made quite easy, thanks to tools like GDevelop, the free and open source game engine that has an events-driven system so even beginners can use it.

SuperStarfighter, a free and open source multiplayer game has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2020

SuperStarfighter from notapixel Studio is a wonderful in-development local multiplayer game with a big new release available.

Low-fantasy tactical RPG 'Urtuk: The Desolation' is up on GOG and worth a look

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Urtuk: The Desolation is dark, a little gruesome and very much an in-development tactical RPG that you're going to need to check out because it's great.

Google opens a second studio to develop Stadia games - The Division 2 this month and more

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Stadia was off to a rough start, it's still quite rough now but an interesting look at a possible future of convenience playing games wherever you want. Seems Google are just getting started.

Served! - the top-down racing game with a culinary theme is out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Giving a whole new meaning to fast food, Served! is a racing game with a culinary theme and it's out now.

The End of the Sun, an upcoming adventure with a Slavic fantasy world has a new teaser

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

The End of the Sun is very pretty looking first-person exploration and adventure game set in the world of Slavic rites, beliefs, legends, and their everyday life.

Godhood from Abbey Games has the 'biggest update yet' with Newfound Shores out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

As Abbey Games work to improve their crowdfunded religion building auto-battler 'Godhood', they just released the Newfound Shores update they claim is the biggest yet.

Lair of the Clockwork God blends an adventure game with a platformer - now out on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

After a brief Beta test, Lair of the Clockwork God which blends gameplay between a point and click adventure with a platform from Size Five Games is now officially available on Linux.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Shattered Web will end on March 30

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gained a lot of new stuff for Operation Shattered Web, including the Battle Pass system and it's all coming to an end this month.

A new Steam Client Beta is up, fixing some annoyances for Linux users

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Valve have released a fresh update to Steam for those of you testing out the Beta, and with it comes some fixes for annoyances.

OpenRA for classic Red Alert and Command & Conquer has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

Dune 2000, Red Alert, Command & Conquer - all classics and all playable on Linux with the cross-platform open source OpenRA.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary single-player works fine on Linux with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary on Linux? Yes. It just today released on Steam, and thanks to Proton with Steam Play you can play this first-person shooter on Linux easily.

Tabletop style tactical RPG 'Wildermyth' has a whole new campaign out in the last update

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Wildermyth stole my heart a little, a tactical RPG with a beautifully designed Papercraft world and plenty of character development. It's going to steal more of my time now too with a whole new campaign out now.

Europa Universalis IV: Emperor expansion announced for release this year

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Europa Universalis IV: Emperor expansion announced today by Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive with a focus on the Holy Roman Empire, Catholicism and the internal management of your kingdom.

As Puppygames reflect on the release of Basingstoke, they say it financially ruined them

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Basingstoke released back in 2018 and in my opinion, it was a damn fun game that really got my blood flowing. Sadly, it went quite under the radar and it seems it pretty much ruined Puppygames.

Mainframe Defenders is a retro-themed tactical squad-based strategy game out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Mainframe Defenders combines a supremely cool retro 80s terminal inspired graphical style, with squad building and tactical turn-based battles.

Theyest Thou will have you throwing guns around with telekinesis

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Theyest Thou is a fun idea for a top-down shooter, while quite simplistic it offers a fun game mechanic to mix things up a little with your telekinesis.

RimWorld's Royalty expansion a 'great success' - more is coming to the game and now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2020

Ludeon Studios recently did a surprise Royalty expansion release for RimWorld with the recent patch and it seems it's doing so well that they're going to do more. RimWorld is also now available on GOG.com.