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Two more 11th Gen Intel Core processors announced i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2021

Computex 2021 is now in full swing and Intel came out with two new processors as part of their 11th Gen Intel Core U-series designed for thin and light laptops with the i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe graphics.

Grab a coffee and come read the latest Sunday Section - May 30

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2021

Time to round-up some of the smaller items we unfortunately didn't get time to go over this week, grab a coffee and relax with a short read of some good stuff.

Bitmapflow helps artists generate inbetweens for animated sprites

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2021

Are you developing games? Making awesome gifs of things and whatever else? Bitmapflow is a very clever application that will generate extra parts of animations to make them smoother.

Retro Commander is a "4X post-apocalyptic RTS" that now has an Alpha available

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2021

Want to try your hand at an in-development RTS that has some potential? Check out Retro Commander, from Noble Master Games ( Age of Conquest IV, Demise of Nations).

Valve looks to be overhauling Steam Library folders to finally make them more useful

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2021

We're seeing even more leaks out of a recent Steam Beta update from Valve that not only hinted at the SteamPal console, and the new Downloads page but also a big overhaul to the Library manager.

The visually striking action-adventure Resolutiion gets another big upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Haven't picked up Resolutiion yet? You're missing out on a wonderful trip through some seriously striking scenes in this action-adventure game. Now is a great time to grab it with a sale and a big upgrade.

Eagle Island Twist has released as a massive free content upgrade for Eagle Island

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Eagle Island from developer Pixelnicks has expanded and turned into Eagle Island Twist, now featuring a whole new campaign to play through that's very different to the original.

An interview with Kodera Software, creator of the hard sci-fi ΔV: Rings of Saturn

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Today we present another interview with a game developer! We had a chat with Kodera Software, creator of the hard sci-fi ΔV: Rings of Saturn which is available in Early Access.

Look after and manage young pop stars in Idol Manager, with a Beta available now

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Here's one we completely missed from Kickstarter that was fully funded back in 2018 and has a Beta available now. Idol Manager is all about developing your agency and looking after the stars of tomorrow.

rpg-cli turns your filesystem into a 'JRPG-inspired' terminal game

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

If you've used the Linux command-line before you've likely done plenty of CD commands to change directory - but what if that was an RPG? Not that you asked but rpg-cli answered.

Learn to break locks in Sophie's Safecracking Simulator

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Sophie's Safecracking Simulator is a wonderful little experience (is it even a game?) that gives you the opportunity to attempt to break various locks.

OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other with Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Not specifically gaming related but we love to cover industry stuff too, that might be interesting for some of our more technically minded users. Collabora have mentioned that thanks to work done on Mesa, OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other.