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Mike Shapiro drops a cryptic message from G-Man for the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx

By Liam Dawe,
Half-Life: Alyx is set to release in March this year, and while we don't yet know what exactly is happening with Linux support it's still an exciting time.

Indie building and automation sim 'Factorio' has surpassed two million sales while in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Wube Software announced recently that their indie building, mining, crafting and automation game Factorio has now managed to pass two million sales before it's even finished.

Monolith: Relics of the Past extends the excellent shooter with a ridiculous amount of extra content

By Liam Dawe,
Monolith's twin-stick rogue-lite room to room shooting is practically perfection, it didn't need an expansion but I'm glad Relics of the Past exists so I can sit and play a huge amount more.

Deep open-world survival game Vintage Story adds a big new weather system

By Liam Dawe,
It's getting a lot more difficult to hold myself back on that buy button on Vintage Story, with so many huge updates to it lately. Another is now in testing, adding in a big new weather system.

You can now easily grab all the extra items for Two Point Hospital from The Superbug Initiative

By Liam Dawe,
The Superbug Initiative in Two Point Hospital is a pretty sweet social feature, where people come together to solve big goals and it then unlocks special items for you.

GOG are finishing their Winter Sale by giving away the RPG Tower of Time

By Liam Dawe,
Grab the excellent real-time dungeon crawling RPG, Tower of Time, completely FREE from GOG during the final days of their Winter Sale.

Dark open-world turn-based RPG 'Urtuk: The Desolation' launching on Steam in February 2020

By Liam Dawe,
After launching on itch.io while still in development, the impressive dark fantasy open-world RPG, Urtuk: The Desolation, is launching into Early Access on Steam next year.

A peek at how many of the most popular games on Steam support Linux, December 2019 edition

By Liam Dawe,
As the 2010s come to a close, let's look over a few different ways of looking at how many popular games are available on Linux as of December 2019.

You can now play the machine generated AI Dungeon 2 in your browser easily

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we wrote about AI Dungeon 2, a text adventure game that has endless possibilities thanks to the fancy machine learning AI brain behind it and it's now seriously easy to play.

Another progress report is up for RPCS3, the PlayStation 3 Emulator

By Liam Dawe,
The volunteers behind the status updates of the PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 have a new report available, with RPCS3 now up to 1,431 titles playable which is amazing.

Co-op first-person RPG 'Barony' has a big update plus Legends & Pariahs DLC release

By Liam Dawe,
Up for some co-op first-person exploration? Barony is a good choice and just recently a big update and DLC went live.

GB Studio, a free and open source retro adventure game creator

By Liam Dawe,
Want to create your own seriously retro games? The free and open source GB Studio can certainly help you to do that.

Classic free and open source platform battler 'Teeworlds' has a major new release

By Liam Dawe,
How about a little classic platform battling this holiday season? Teeworlds has a brand new release available.

Wine 5.0 has a third Release Candidate with a bunch of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
A third tasty Release Candidate is out as the Wine team hack their way towards a huge new stable release with Wine 5.0 due next year.

Futuristic racer mixed with a little combat 'GRAL' arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Three Souls Interactive emailed in to let everyone know that GRAL, their future racer is now officially available for Linux gamers.

Free and open source transport sim OpenTTD has a second Beta towards a big new version

By Liam Dawe,
OpenTTD is a true classic, building upon what Transport Tycoon Deluxe started and expanding it across more platforms and keeping it alive many years later.

GOG have new games up on GOG Connect, big sale still going

By Liam Dawe,
More titles have recently appeared on GOG Connect, giving you the ability to grab an extra DRM-free copy on GOG if you already have them on Steam.

Developer of Brutal Doom reveals new project: VietDoom; alpha 0.1 already available

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
Last August, the developer responsible for the excellent mod Brutal Doom, revealed after a month of absence that he was working on a new project called VietDoom, which takes place during Vietnam War.

The Legacy Update is live for Dead Cells, allowing you to play old versions plus saves get backups

By Liam Dawe,
Much like what Hinterland did with The Long Dark's Time Capsule, you can now try out older versions of Dead Cells at any time if you dislike changes made over time.

Laminar Research readying Vulkan support for an upcoming public beta with X-Plane 11.50

By Liam Dawe,
Release the Vulkans! Laminar Research are pushing forwards with their plan to upgrade X-Plane 11 with Vulkan support.