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Streets of Rogue 2 might be my most anticipated title for 2024

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2023

I spent a ridiculous amount of time running around the small levels in Streets of Rogue, it was absolutely brilliant chaos and Streets of Rogue 2 going open-world is looking mighty fine in this first developer video.

Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2023

The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.

Enter the mind of a game dev on the brink in The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2023

Elden Pixels who previously made Alwa's Awakening and Alwa's Legacy, and who are also working on A Void Hope also just announced The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest.

4x space strategy game New Stars hits Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2023

Are you a fan of titles like Stellaris and other space strategy games? You may want to take a look at New Stars, which just entered Early Access with Linux support.

Dark fantasy city-builder Against the Storm 1.0 out and now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2023

Against the Storm is a city-builder with a sprinkle of rogue-lite, in a dark fantasy setting and now only has it recently left Early Access to hit 1.0 but it's also now Steam Deck Verified!

Vibrant fantasy retro magical FPS 'Wizordum' is a joy to blast through

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2023

Wizordum is a new retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. If you adored early first-person shooters, you're going to really enjoy this one.

The gorgeous Tails of Iron just got a free expansion

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2023

Tails of Iron is an epic RPG adventure with punishingly brutal combat and a very bold style, and the developers just surprise-dropped a whole new free expansion to the end-game.

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2023

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is the latest DLC available for the popular bullet-heaven horde survival game thingy from poncle and it's a lot of fun.

Songs of Conquest now Steam Deck Verified with full gamepad support

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2023

Need a new turn-based strategy game with an infusion of RPG mechanics that looks beautiful? Play on Steam Deck or with a gamepad mostly? Check out the latest update to Songs of Conquest!

War Thunder has another major update with 'Air Superiority'

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2023

War Thunder, one of my most played games from 2023, had another major free update released with the War Thunder update out now bringing various new top-tier jets into the game.

Check out your 2023 Year In Review on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2023

With 2023 coming to a close Valve have refreshed their Steam Year In Review page, so you can dive in and see everything you did and how it stacks up against others.

Steam Workshop gets even better with shareable Workshop Collections

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

Valve are really doing some good stuff with the updates to the Steam Workshop. On top of the new features added recently, they've also now put in Workshop Collections you can switch between and share around.

Claim a free copy of Lost Ruins during the GOG Winter Sale

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

The next free giveaway is live on GOG.com for their Winter Sale, so you've got 72 hours to grab it for keeps and it's quite a good one. It also has a Native Linux version.

Brocula is a life sim with a dark side - grow crops, go fishing, grow a cult as a Vampire

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

I'm all for playing more life-sims but they're all just a bit too cute aren't they? Brocula looks like it's going to be the opposite, with you being a Vampire.

God-sim city-builder The Universim releases 1.0 on January 22, 2024

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

After a good few years in Early Access, The Universim from Crytivo is finally set to hit the big 1.0 with some fun new features.

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

ScummVM expands support for Macromedia Director

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

ScummVM is an awesome project bringing new life to absolutely loads of classic games through the power of open source, and now they're expanding support for Macromedia Director games too.

Check out the demo for Hive Jump Survivors a new action roguelite

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

Another survivors-styled game? Yes! You wanted more right? And this one will also have full Linux support too. Check out the demo for Hive Jump Survivors.

Valve hands out lumps of coal to naughty Dota 2 players

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2023

In possibly one of the funniest moves I've seen from Valve recently, they're handing out lumps of coal when banning Dota 2 players.

Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2023

We're reaching the end-game now Wine fans, the time for Wine 9.0 to release is quickly approaching with a second Release Candidate now available. Plus VKD3D-Proton also had a small update recently too!

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