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As Puppygames reflect on the release of Basingstoke, they say it financially ruined them

By Liam Dawe, Mar 3, 2020

Basingstoke released back in 2018 and in my opinion, it was a damn fun game that really got my blood flowing. Sadly, it went quite under the radar and it seems it pretty much ruined Puppygames.

Mainframe Defenders is a retro-themed tactical squad-based strategy game out now

By Liam Dawe, Mar 3, 2020

Mainframe Defenders combines a supremely cool retro 80s terminal inspired graphical style, with squad building and tactical turn-based battles.

Theyest Thou will have you throwing guns around with telekinesis

By Liam Dawe, Mar 3, 2020

Theyest Thou is a fun idea for a top-down shooter, while quite simplistic it offers a fun game mechanic to mix things up a little with your telekinesis.

RimWorld's Royalty expansion a 'great success' - more is coming to the game and now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, Mar 3, 2020

Ludeon Studios recently did a surprise Royalty expansion release for RimWorld with the recent patch and it seems it's doing so well that they're going to do more. RimWorld is also now available on GOG.com.

OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 is out to further enhance video livestreaming and recording

By Liam Dawe, Mar 3, 2020

OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 has been released as the first step towards a new stable version, and it comes with some fancy new features for all platforms.

China bans Plague Inc: Evolved as Coronavirus fear spreads

By Liam Dawe, Mar 3, 2020

China hasn't exactly been the easiest market to release games in, for various reasons, and now they've banned Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam.

Knightin'+, a Zelda-lite dungeon crawler arrives DRM-free on GOG

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

Knightin'+ from Muzt Die Studios, a Zelda-lite dungeon crawling adventure has now officially arrived on DRM-free store GOG.com.

BeamNG.drive needs a developer to port it to Linux and other systems

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

BeamNG.drive, a very popular and highly rated soft-body physics vehicle simulator looks like it may come to Linux - if they can find a dedicated developer to join their team.

BadLads is an open-world multiplayer RP city sim coming to Linux this year

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

Inspired by RP (role playing) mods for other games, BadLads from Latvian developer Chemical Heads Studios looks like it could be pretty amusing low-poly version of GTA Online.

Quirky comedy adventure 'The Unholy Society' is out now

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

Cat-astrophe Games just released The Unholy Society, a comical and quirky adventure game inspired by '80s and '90s movies, comic books and all other "pop-culture" stuff and things.

The upcoming Frictional Games title now has a new teaser - what the heck is going on?

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

The currently unnamed upcoming game (likely some form of horror) from Frictional Games now has a new teaser.

Iris and the Giant is a deck-builder about facing your inner demons - out now

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

Iris and the Giant is a new release that pulls you into the mind of a young girl, as she fights her inner demons in turn-based battles with card deck-building.

Get a nice overview of Crusader Kings 3 features in a new video - more RPG like mechanics

By Liam Dawe, Mar 2, 2020

Crusader Kings 3, the upcoming grand-strategy from Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive sounds like a big and quite impressive game and they've been talking about it a lot.