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Chronicon, the excellent action-RPG now has much better gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Chronicon is an Early Access action-RPG with a feel and atmosphere like the classic Diablo, I absolutely love it and it's now much better with gamepads.

Upcoming eco tycoon sim 'Among Ripples: Shallow Waters' has a demo out

By Liam Dawe,
Help maintain a delicate ecosystem in Among Ripples: Shallow Waters, an in-development eco tycoon sim with a focus on lakes and rivers.

Upcoming supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' development sounds good

By Liam Dawe,
While it doesn't yet have a release date, it does sound like development on the upcoming supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' is going well.

If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii

By Liam Dawe,
Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.

Multiplayer economic strategy game 'Trains & Things' releasing this month

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development by bitshift in Godot Engine, Trains & Things is a multiplayer economic real-time strategy game.

Physics-based platformer LAZR has a very impressive new demo out

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development by Garrick Campsey and being made with the cross-platform MonoGame, LAZR has to be one of the most unique platformers I've seen in some time with some very fun cloth simulation going on and a big new demo is out.

CodeWeavers still looking to hire more Graphics Developers

By Liam Dawe,
Do you have strong C language skills and good experience with OpenGL, DirectX and Vulkan? CodeWeavers are still looking to hire Graphics Developers.

Wine 5.0 has a fifth Release Candidate, getting real close to final now

By Liam Dawe,
The 5.0 stable release of Wine is really closing in now, with a fifth Release Candidate being released today with some more bug fixes noted.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe,
Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

Alternate history WWII story-driven tactical RPG 'Broken Lines' new trailer, release soon

By Liam Dawe,
Broken Lines, an alternate take on WWII history brings tactical RPG has a fresh trailer out for 2020, plus it seems like a release could be soon.

VVVVVV from Terry Cavanagh has the source code opened up to celebrate the 10 year anniversary

By Liam Dawe,
VVVVVV, the clever platformer from Terry Cavanagh where you reverse gravity instead of jumping has now had the source code opened up so you can see the dirty innards.

Dota Underlords looks like it will leave Early Access in February, big update coming

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have announced that Dota Underlords, their auto-battle strategy game will get the first proper Season by the end of February, which means it will leave Early Access.

Core Defense adds a little deck-building and randomization to Tower Defense

By Liam Dawe,
Solo developer ehmprah from Berlin is currently working on Core Defense, a Tower Defense game that mixes things up with randomization and deck-building.

The latest Steam Client Beta solves Linux issues with NFS mounts and the Hardware Survey

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released another Beta for the Steam Client, the first Beta of 2020 and it pulls in a couple Linux fixes.

Lenna's Inception, the Zelda-inspired adventure with a glitched world arrives January 17

By Liam Dawe,
Bytten Studio, a tiny team made up of two former Chucklefish developers who previously worked on titles like Stardew Valley, Starbound and Wargroove have announced their debut title the Zelda-inspired Lenna’s Inception is releasing on January 17.

The first DXVK release of 2020 is here with plenty of D3D9 improvements

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK, the project that (since D9VK was merged) has turned into a massive translating unit of Direct 3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan has the first 2020 release available.

Supernatural post-apocalypse strategic RPG 'Graywalkers: Purgatory' landing on Linux in February

By Liam Dawe,
February seems to be a popular month recently with LUNA The Shadow Dust, Dwarrows and now the great looking spooky XCOM-like Graywalkers: Purgatory also coming to Linux then.

Crytivo (The Universim) to donate a bunch of their profits to help with Australian wildfires

By Liam Dawe,
If you've seen any news lately, you've probably heard about what a terrible and frightening state Australia is currently in with the devastation from the wildfires.

The Level Editor and Steam Workshop support for the crazy Streets of Rogue is now live

By Liam Dawe,
Streets of Rogue, my personal pick for 2019 just expanded with a new update now out. This makes the Level Editor and Steam Workshop support fully live for everyone.

The Humble Store Winter Sale is live, another FREE game is going too

By Liam Dawe,
Another sale, time to pick up some cheap games if you missed some during other big sales last month. This time Humble Store have a big selection up and a free game to grab.