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Retro arcade-style rally racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit gets a DX edition with a lot more content

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Parking Garage Rally Circuit DX has been revealed today, greatly expanding the content of this popular retro arcade-style rally racer.

The incredibly complex sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta has a release date

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

From the team that created the Long War mod for XCOM, the rather complex grand strategy game Terra Invicta now has a full release date.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor gets mid-game saves and CPU optimizations

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

The excellent bullet heaven Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has Patch 3 out now which includes the much requested mid-game saving system.

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure caught my eye recently with it's interesting premise and some pretty slick looking pixel-art for point and click fans.

The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

The results are in, game developers look to move forward to create Bullet Heaven as an official genre spawned from Vampire Survivors.

The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

New content for Megabonk? As if I needed more reasons to load it up. The absolute indie gem survivor-like bullet heaven just got even bigger.

Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Ready for the holiday period, Klaus Veen's Treason is a fun looking 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal that now has Native Linux support.

If you need a new retro boomer shooter check out Ctesiphon

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Released in November, Ctesiphon puts you in the role of a Galactic Bounty Hunter extraordinaire in a fresh retro styled futuristic boomer shooter.

NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX

15 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Quake II RTX released back in 2019, with NVIDIA using it to show off more ray tracing effects for their RTX GPUs but now they're done with it.

Mounts of Mayhem released for Minecraft with new mobs, weapons and more

12 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

One missed from earlier this week with the onslaught of news - Mounts of Mayhem released for Minecraft as the latest major update for the popular sandbox game.

After multiple delays Terminator 2D: NO FATE has launched with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified

12 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Terminator 2D: NO FATE from Bitmap Bureau / Reef Entertainment has released today to give you some retro themed action-platformer goodness.

Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 on Linux, D7VK has a 1.0 release out now

12 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Bringing more classic gaming goodies with the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, D7VK 1.0 is out now for Linux.

NVIDIA driver 580.119.02 released for Linux as the latest recommended stable version

12 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

A new Recommended / Certified Linux driver release from NVIDIA with version 580.119.02 now available.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is now Steam Deck Verified with a big update

12 Dec 2025 | By Liam Squires-Hand

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 not only won the Game of the Year at TGA 2025, but they also just launched a major upgrade that gets it Steam Deck Verified.