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Frick, Inc. is a clever puzzle game where you drive trucks with on-screen controls out now

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

Drive funny little trucks across difficult tracks using only your mouse in Frick, Inc. which is out now with Linux support, plus you get some free game assets as an extra.

Try out the demo for the action-RPG 'Skellboy Refractured' - it's super charming

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

Skellboy Refractured is the upcoming action-RPG from UmaikiGames, originally released just as Skellboy for the Nintendo Switch - it's getting a desktop release soon.

ScummVM to merge in ResidualVM, adding support for a number of 3D titles

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

While the ScummVM project was originally meant to cover 2D classics, ResidualVM was the companion project for 3D games and now they're going to combine into ScummVM.

NVIDIA release another fresh Vulkan Beta Driver - 455.26.01

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

NVIDIA just quietly released another fresh update to their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver.

The compatibility layer Wine sees a 5.19 development release out now

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2020

Continuing to chase Windows as a platform, the compatibility layer Wine has another development release available now with Wine 5.19.

Amnesia: Rebirth has a brand new trailer ahead of release this month

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

Frictional are ready and waiting to scare us silly with Amnesia: Rebirth releasing soon, and they have a brand new trailer to get us in the mood.

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 free to keep, Total War: WARHAMMER II free for the weekend + more

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

SEGA are having a big celebration this weekend, as it's their 60th anniversary so you can grab Sonic The Hedgehog 2 free to keep forever. Plus plenty more on sale.

Open source infinite shape-factory sim 'shapez.io' has a major new release up

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

shapez.io lets you build up a huge factory with an ever-expanding map, it's open source and a massive new update was recently put up expanding how deep it goes.

Spaceship base-building colony simulator 'Stardeus' announced with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

Kodo Linija (Bloody Rally Show) have announced their next game with Stardeus, a spaceship base-building colony sim that will arrive with Linux support in 2021.

Fast-paced action-roguelike 'Burning Knight' goes fully open source

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

After recently releasing the first major post-release update, the developer of the action-roguelike Burning Knight decided to open source the whole thing.

High-speed precision platformer 'RITE' adds Linux support in a post-release update

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

Ready for a fresh challenge? Conquered Celeste and want something more? Take a look at the high-speed precision platformer RITE which is now supported on Linux.

After a very dicey campaign end, A Fox Tale is funded on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

After looking like it wouldn't reach the goal, A Fox Tale from Danny Peet managed what looked to be almost impossible on the Kickstarter campaign which has now finished.

Graveyard Keeper 'Game Of Crone' DLC announced for late October

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2020

Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild have announced a brand new expansion for Graveyard Keeper is on the way with Game Of Crone, after a long while of no updates.

AMD reveals Zen 3 and the Ryzen 5000 series - out November 5

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2020

Today AMD revealed the Zen 3 CPU architecture along with the Ryzen 5000 series, with quite a big focus in single-threaded performance as they continue to fight Intel.