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Feeling extra competitive? The creative platformer DASH now has online multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

DASH (Danger Action Speed Heroes), a platformer that's built for people who love creating and competing across user-made levels just recently expanded with a big new online multiplayer mode.

Need a distraction-free art application on Linux? Try out MyPaint

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

If you have a Wacom-style graphic tablet and you need a simple and distraction-free painting program, MyPaint seems like it could be a really good fit.

If you enjoy Slay the Spire you should try the opt-in Beta for a better experience

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

Now that the huge update to Slay the Spire is live adding in The Watcher as the fourth character, Mega Crit Games have also updated their opt-in game engine upgrade Beta.

New stable Steam Client up, fixing Steam Survey and NFS mounts on Linux, plus other Steam news

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

The first stable update for the Steam Client of 2020, pulling in all the recent changes from the Beta versions.

Lucky Lanterns event is now live in Rocket League and there's a brand new arena

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Psyonix have put the Lucky Lanterns event live now in Rocket League. No update is needed today, as one went out a few days ago to prepare for it.

Amusing sticky-tongue physics platformer 'Crumble' has a big demo update, now with multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

A rolling-ball physics platformer where you move like slime, jump like a bouncy ball and swing using a sticky tongue like a weird version of Spider Man. Crumble has a lot of fun ideas going for it and a big demo update is out now with co-op.

Recent updates to Littlewood added a lot of bugs and a nervous looking Sea Monster

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Probably one of the most charming games I've ever played, Littlewood, just constantly gets bigger and more sweet with each update.

The charming platformer & space shooter hybrid A.N.N.E to get a huge 1.0 update in May

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Gamesbymo have announced that A.N.N.E, the crowdfunded mixture of metroidvania style platforming with space shooter elements will get a big 1.0 update on May 20.

DragonEvo, a trading card game mixed with RPG elements you can play in your browser

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Oh how I do love deck-building, card games and strategy stuffs. If you do too, you might want to take a look over at DragonEvo.

RetroArch to have the emulation 'Cores' as DLC when it releases on Steam, plus big updates

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

The team behind RetroArch, the open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators (and a lot more like open source game engines), have stated their plans for handling the various emulators it works with for the Steam release.

OpenRA for classic Westwood RTS games has a new build in need of testing

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Following on from a major release last year, the team working on OpenRA have a new test release up that requires testing.

Obversion, a puzzle game from a former Google developer releases next week

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Former Google developer Adrian Marple quit to become an indie developer, with the puzzle game Obversion being their first title which is releasing next week.

Tower Of God: One Wish, a nice casual match-3 game released recently

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

A genre Linux surprisingly doesn't have a huge selection in is Match 3 puzzle games, thankfully if you love these casual games a new one is out with Tower Of God: One Wish.

The sixth Release Candidate for Wine 5.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2020

The Wine team have released a sixth and perhaps final Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release of Wine 5.0.

The hero is dead so it's up to you to fix a glitched world - Lenna's Inception is out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

The debut game from Bytten Studio, Lenna's Inception comes from two former Chucklefish developers and it's out now.

Detailed open-world space sandbox game 'Avorion' leaving Early Access soon

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Boxelware have announced that Avorion, their procedural co-op space sandbox where you build your own spaceship will leave Early Access soon.

Wizard of Legend gets a little electric in a huge content update out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Contingent99 just released a massive upgrade to Wizard of Legend, their fast-paced magical action game and it continues to be brilliant.

Steam reportedly coming to Chrome OS - Linux gaming across even more devices

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Android Police have an article up mentioning that Google is reportedly working on getting Steam working officially and supported on Chrome OS.

Godot Engine 3.2 is almost here with a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Godot Engine, the quickly improving free and open source game engine is getting real close to a major release with the first Release Candidate now up for Godot 3.2.

Boxtron, the Steam Play tool to run games through a native DOSBox on Linux has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Boxtron is another awesome Steam Play tool! Covered here a few times now, like Proton it enables you to play games on Linux that don't have a Linux build setup on Steam only this is for DOSBox games.