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Cities: Skylines - Green Cities has a new trailer and release date, also details on a free update

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2017

Pollution been getting you down? Ready to go Greeen? Cities: Skylines - Green Cities, the latest expansion to the city builder releases on October 19th and it has a new trailer.

TIC-80, a 'fantasy computer' is now open source under the MIT license

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2017

TIC-80, a 'fantasy computer' for making, playing and sharing tiny games is now officially open source under the MIT license.

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Outskirts is a colourful, clever and difficult bullet-hell shooter that's now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2017

Do you like bullet-hell games? Outskirts is something you absolutely need to look at. The idea is clever and it's quite challenging.

Atari are launching a new gaming system, the 'Ataribox' and it runs Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2017

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Another Linux-based gaming system is coming, this time from Atari. The Ataribox will run on an AMD processor and it sounds quite interesting.

DwarfCorp, an open source & procedurally generated real-time strategy game is now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2017

DwarfCorp, an open source fantasy real-time strategy game finally has a proper public release, it's now in Early Access.

Uebergame, a free and open source shooter has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2017

Uebergame, a free and open source FPS just had a fresh release with new maps, UI updates and plenty more.

The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day, a superhero text adventure with first person controls, re-launched

By Cheeseness, 26 Sep 2017

First person/text adventure hybrid, The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day has been re-launched with all-new audio, gamepad support, improved controls and more!

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2017

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, a game about a Dad looking to date another Dad is now on Linux.

Morphite, the casual and stylish FPS is now on Linux, hold off for now

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2017

I've been excited to try Morphite, the low poly stylized FPS that people keep comparing to No Man's Sky and now it's on Linux here's some initial thoughts.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By , 25 Sep 2017

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Operator Overload is due out this week promising 'complex combinatoric conundrums'

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2017

Operator Overload, a puzzle game I briefly wrote about back in June last year is finally getting a release this week.

Unbalance, a very minimalist puzzle game that's super cheap and quite good is on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2017

Unbalance is a minimalist puzzle game about spinning things around to drop a red ball onto something, it's actually quite clever.

Digging for riches and falling onto spikes in SteamWorld Dig 2, now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2017

If you're a fan of the first game, you're going to love this. If you missed the first one, you're still going to love SteamWorld Dig 2.

Rise to Ruins updated with an overhauled combat system along with bows and arrows

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2017

The village building god game Rise to Ruins has expanded once again. This latest development release 'InDev 28 Unstable 3' overhauls the combat system. Ranged attacks are now possible!

Rusted Warfare, the sweet 2D RTS has a new major release with tons of goodies

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2017

Do you love RTS games? Rusted Warfare is one you seriously need to look at. This sweet 2D RTS works great on Linux and just had a huge update.

Linux version of 'The Coma: Recut' removed at release after taking pre-orders

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2017

Sadly it seems the Linux version of The Coma: Recut vanished at release, even after taking pre-orders.

SDL 2.0.6 released, introduces Vulkan support

By BTRE, 23 Sep 2017

The cross-platform development library has seen the release of its latest version. Quite a few exciting changes this time around, including support for Vulkan and more types of gamepads.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 22 Sep 2017

Woo! It's Friday again and that means it's time to warm up the CPU cores and prime the GPU for some Friday Livestream action! Once again you have a chance to watch the glorious victories and salt-filled failures of yours truly live on the Internet!