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Fast-paced free-moving rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' out now and it's damn good

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Flying Oak Games might have done the unthinkable here, they may have dethroned Dead Cells in my heart with ScourgeBringer.

The creator of Pony Island is back with a strange narrative-infused deck-builder 'Inscryption'

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Daniel Mullins Games (Pony Island, The Hex) announced their latest game that's been in development for over a year. It's called Inscryption and it's a narrative focused, card-based deck building roguelike.

UAlbion is an open source game engine for the 1995 classic RPG 'Albion'

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Late last month to coincide with the 24th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D, the EDuke32 fork Raze was announced.

You can test the huge "Nether Update" for Minecraft in the latest Snapshot

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mojang are busy bees working on a massive update to Minecraft, mainly focusing on expanding The Nether and you can test out this big update in a brand new Snapshot.

Unitystation, a cross-platform remake of Space Station 13 has a first public build up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Space Station 13 is something of a classic, released way back in 2003 on the BYOND service. It's being remade with Unity to have a more modern experience, as well as being cross-platform.

2.5D multiplayer military shooter 'Soldat 2' announced - yes it's a proper sequel

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Today, Michal Marcinkowski of Transhuman Design officially announced a sequel to the classic 2D side-view multiplayer action game Soldat.

Collabora's FOSDEM videos are up, including one on putting Linux games in Containers on Steam

By Liam Squires-Hand,
In a recent update to the Linux Steam Client, the ability to run Linux games inside a special container was added in. At the FOSDEM event, Collabora's Simon McVittie gave a talk on it.

City-building god sim 'The Universim' enters Beta, full release this year

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After a long road since the Kickstarter in 2014, Crytivo's city-builder that mixes in some god sim elements The Universim is now considered to be in Beta with a huge update.

With colourful and gorgeous pixel-art 'Mists of Noyah' enters Early Access soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Entering Early Access on February 26, Mists of Noyah looks like an incredibly promising 2D co-op action survival game with some really gorgeous artwork.

Hammer Dongers - an amusing local multiplayer game that's like Bomberman with Hammers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Currently in development and local multiplayer only for now, Hammer Dongers has an absolutely brilliant idea that I can't wait to see developed further.

Emotionally charged point-and-click 'Road To Nowhere' demo is up - looks gorgeous

By Liam Squires-Hand,
An emotionally charged point-and-click tale about betrayal, manipulation, and abuse. Road To Nowhere is going to be free at release, with a demo out now.

The Atari VCS team give another update - plus a proper look at the UI

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Pre-production is still ongoing for the Linux-powered Atari VCS, with the team giving a fresh update on how it's doing.

A few months after entering Early Access, Daedalic put their RTS 'A Year Of Rain' on hold

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Daedalic Entertainment announced their in-development real-time strategy game A Year Of Rain is now officially on hold.

Top down strategy and tactics returns with Door Kickers 2

By Liam Squires-Hand,
KillHouse Games have now re-announced Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, the sequel to their excellent 2014 tactics game.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.

The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020

By Hamish,
Community support for Unreal Tournament was able to breath some new life into the game, even with the limitations of the closed binary. By 2018 however the game was no longer launching for Mesa users. For an engine with such a pedigree on Linux this outcome is still disappointing.

Hellpoint, dark sci-fi action RPG launching on April 16 with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Three years after the Kickstarter campaign, the great looking dark sci-fi action RPG Hellpoint from Cradle Games and tinyBuild is confirmed for launch with Linux support on April 16.

Something Ate My Alien combines digging, puzzle solving and a little platforming - out in April

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Rokabium Games recently announced that Something Ate My Alien will be releasing this April, with Linux support.

Pioneer, the classic open-source space sim has a big new release out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Inspired by the classic Frontier: Elite II, Pioneer is a free and open source space adventure sim. Open-ended exploration, allowing you to do whatever you want and there's a big release out now.