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Crescent County is an open-world "witch-tech" delivery life-sim where you travel around on a motorised broom
Witch-tech? That's a new one. Crescent County has a really fun idea and some lovely visuals too. It's a delivery life-sim where you move to a witch-tech island and explore its painterly open world on the back of your scrappy, souped-up motorbroom.
Tempest Rising looks awesome and this RTS is launching in April 2025
I quite enjoyed the first initial demo of Tempest Rising, a classic RTS like Westwood used to make (Red Alert, Command & Conquer) only a lot shinier and now it has a release date along with a new trailer.
A Game About Digging A Hole has you dig the stupidest biggest hole possible to find potential secrets
A Game About Digging A Hole sounds like it might actually be somewhat amusing. As the name suggests, it's all about digging down deep where you might find some secrets.
Drill-ship survival game Volcanoids adds big mech spiders and tanks that drill up through the ground to say hi
I still think Volcanoids has one of the absolutely coolest ideas for a survival game, with your base being a big moving drill that burrows through the earth and it just keeps on getting better.
Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward adds creature territories, deities, item stacking and lots more
Wayward is an Early Access wilderness survival roguelike that's highly rated by players, and it just had a massive update launch with "Runekeeper".
Stoneshard major upgrade brings an upgradable fast-travel caravan system, cooking, new locations and more
Stoneshard is a very challenging open-world RPG currently in Early Access and the latest major release is a really big one.
Horror scavenging game KLETKA is like Lethal Company but an elevator wants to eat you
Ready for a new horror co-op adventure? KLETKA just entered Early Access on Steam with Native Linux support and it's quite an unnerving experience to explore it.
Little Rocket Lab is probably the cutest production-line automation sim ever
No More Robots and Teenage Astronauts recently revealed Little Rocket Lab, a cozy take on the production-line automation genre and it looks lovely.
Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant expansion announced
The 16-bit style RPG Chained Echoes, set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as piloted mechanical suits, is set to get a big expansion in 2025.
Chilly survival game BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2 announced
While they're finishing up work on the final bits of The Long Dark, Hinterland recently revealed the next game with BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.
Palworld: Feybreak major update launches December 23
Pocketpair have announced the big free update for Palworld named Feybreak is set for launch on December 23, as they continue battling Nintendo.
Godot Engine's 2024 Showreel shows a lot of fun stuff for the open source game engine
The cross-platform free and open source Godot Engine has another showreel up, giving you a nice look at what some developers have been making with it.
KDE Plasma 6.3 will have much better fractional scaling
The KDE team continuing building up the next version of the popular KDE Plasma desktop environment, with Plasma 6.3.0 getting some great additions.
Linux Mint 22.1 Beta released with Cinnamon 6.4 desktop and lots of Wayland improvements
Linux Mint 22.1 is coming soon with a Beta release now available for testing, which includes the brand new Cinnamon 6.4 desktop release.
Xfce 4.20 desktop released with experimental Wayland support
After two years of work the Xfce team have release Xfce 4.20 which amongst many other things, now has very experimental Wayland support.
Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 second Release Candidate out now
With the Windows compatibility layer Wine now in a code freeze, they're focusing purely on bug fixes and not new features ready for the Wine 10.0 release early next year.
The upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S may come with a SteamOS Linux version
The leaked but unannounced Lenovo Legion Go S seems like it will come in two different versions, and one of them may even be with SteamOS Linux like Valve's Steam Deck.
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan project VKD3D-Proton v2.14 out now with various performance improvements
VKD3D-Proton v2.14 is now available bringing various improvements to the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer that's used by Valve's Proton for running Windows games on Linux.
Turok: Origins announced and it's now a third-person shooter with co-op
Turok: Origins was announced by Saber Interactive and this time it's a third-person shooter, with an optional co-op element where three people can team up to take on the dinosaurs and some new alien threat.
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