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Sky Racket is a brilliant and colourful mix of a shoot 'em up and a block breaker, out now

By Liam Dawe,
2
Sky Racket combines two styles of gameplay in such a fantastic way, with beautiful bright colours and feel like a classic Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) game. It's out today and it's a huge amount of fun.
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Space grand strategy game AI War 2 has now officially launched

By Liam Dawe,
5
Arcen Games have released a new deadly AI into space with the grand strategy game AI War 2 now available as it has left Early Access.
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Chilly survival game The Long Dark has released Episode 3, Survival Mode update due December

By Liam Dawe,
5
Today, you can venture back into the frozen wastes of The Long Dark, as Episode Three CROSSROADS ELEGY is now out. You can skip right ahead to it too.
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The Children's Commissioner in England has called on the government to class loot boxes as gambling

By Liam Dawe,
52
Here could be the start of another nail in the coffin for loot boxes, as the Children's Commissioner in England has put out a new report after a little study was done.
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Dead End Job, a twin-stick ghost-sucking shooter releases December 13

By Liam Dawe,
1
Ant Workshop and publisher Headup have announced the madcap mash-up of Ren & Stimpy meets Ghostbusters, Dead End Job, is releasing on December 13.
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Devespresso Games join with Headup for Western release of The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters

By Liam Dawe,
1
The Korean survival horror-adventure The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters from Devespresso Games is now getting a helping hand from publisher Headup for Western audiences.
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Kowai Sugoi Studios close up so they've made their point & click horror 'Shiver' free

By Liam Dawe,
3
Times are tough for indies, with Kowai Sugoi Studios announcing they're closing up shop and so they've set their point and click horror title Shiver free for everyone.
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Humble Store is doing a Female Protagonist Sale, plus the upcoming Steam sale dates leaked

By Liam Dawe,
23
The week has only just begun and there's plenty of sales going on, with even more coming up. Let's have a little look.
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Another OpenRA preview build is up needing testing, Tiberian Sun support is coming along

By Liam Dawe,
1
Work continues on the open source game engine OpenRA which allows you to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux and other modern platforms with support for Tiberian Sun progressing well.
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Steam 'Remote Play Together' is now in Beta, allowing local multiplayer games over the net

By Liam Dawe,
15
Today, Valve have released an exciting update to the Steam Beta Client which adds in Remote Play Together, allowing you to play local co-op, local multiplayer and shared/split screen games over the net with your friends.
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Failbetter Games are upgrading owners of Sunless Skies to the Sovereign Edition next year

By Liam Dawe,
1
Failbetter Games have announced that Sunless Skies is getting a bit of an upgrade with the Sovereign Edition and it's going to be free to existing purchasers when it's release next year.
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After making Crusader Kings II free, Paradox are now giving away The Old Gods expansion

By Liam Dawe,
13
It's been a bit of a whirlwind of Paradox news recently and we have even more to share. With a tiny amount of effort, you can get The Old Gods expansion for Crusader Kings II free.
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vkBasalt, an open source Vulkan post processing layer for Contrast Adaptive Sharpening

By Liam Dawe,
27
This is an interesting open source project! vkBasalt is a new Vulkan post processing layer that currently supports Contrast Adaptive Sharpening.
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You can now grab the Gotrek and Felix DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II free

By Liam Dawe,
0
Just a quick tip for Total War: WARHAMMER II fans this Monday morning, as you can now grab the previously White Dwarf Magazine exclusive DLC Gotrek and Felix for free.
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Need an easy way to manage a Linux game server? LinuxGSM is great and recently passed 100 supported titles

By Liam Dawe,
7
A project that perhaps isn't as well known as it should be: LinuxGSM makes managing Linux game servers easy and they recently hit a fun milestone.
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Boxtron, the Steam Play compatibility tool for DOSBox brings more improvements in another update

By Liam Dawe,
8
The Speedy Staging 0.5.3 of Boxtron is out, further improving this Steam Play compatibility tool for DOSBox gaming on Linux.
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Humble Monthly will be changing to Humble Choice later this year

By Liam Dawe,
16
If you're interested in getting a bunch of games each month, the Humble Monthly has at times been quite generous with the selection. Things are about to change, with it being renamed to Humble Choice with new options.
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Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section

By Liam Dawe,
3
Sunday is a day mostly of rest, relaxation and kicking butt in some games. Before that though, let's have a little look at a few bits and pieces of missing news and what was interesting recently.
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Imperator: Rome is getting a free Punic Wars content pack in addition to the big Livy update

By Liam Dawe,
2
One piece of PDXCON news missed from yesterday: Imperator: Rome is getting a free Punic Wars Content Pack along with the upcoming Livy Update.
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Continuing the Counter-Strike 20th anniversary Valve put out skins, plus a possible Operation and update coming

By Liam Dawe,
4
After starting off the celebration for Counter-Strike turning 20 back in June with the retro version of Dust II, Valve have now added a refreshed version of the map Cache and a themed Weapon Case and Sticker Capsule.
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