Valve making steps to address toxic behaviour on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
One of my all-time favourite first-person shooters, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is about to tell naughty players to sort their attitude out.
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Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK has another small release up
Another fresh release of the Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer, DXVK, was released today which continues their cycle of bug fixing.
Humble Store has some great Linux games on sale right now
It's coming up to the weekend, so here's a little look at some of the great games you can get for cheaps on Humble Store.
Steam hitting nearly 95 million 'monthly active' users and other Steam news
Valve are talking a lot more lately, actually telling us what's been going on and what some of their plans are. In their latest blog post, they had plenty to share.
Fast-paced free-moving rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' out now and it's damn good
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'
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.
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