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Planetary Annihilation devs reveal Industrial Annihilation

By Liam Dawe, Oct 19, 2023

The developers of Planetary Annihilation (well, some of them at least) have announced Industrial Annihilation, a full sequel that blends in factory building with the RTS elements.

Beyond All Reason is looking incredible for fans of Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander

By Liam Dawe, Jan 4, 2023

Beyond All Reason is an in-development free and open source RTS, based on the SpringRTS game engine and their latest update showcases just how great it looks.

Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK version 1.10.2 is up with lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, Jul 13, 2022

DXVK is the translation tool used inside of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan and a new release is out now with version 1.10.2.

Proton 7.0-3 in testing, will bring more game compatibility to Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3, 2022

Valve and their partner CodeWeavers are working towards the next major upgrade of Proton, the compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux and the Steam Deck.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets a new series of Fusion Updates

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24, 2021

For a while now the newer team who have kept Planetary Annihilation: TITANS alive have been gradually updating the game as part of the "Unicorn" series, which they say is now over and it's time for Fusion.

The Steam Summer Sale 2021 is now live with thousands of savings and a mini-game

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24, 2021

Have you been penny-pinching ready for the Steam Summer Sale 2021? Well it's live now so you can open those wallets up and build up another backlog of games.

Get a free copy of Bomber Crew during the Humble Winter Sale

By Liam Dawe, Jan 14, 2021

How about a free game for the coming weekend? Humble Store has Bomber Crew going free during their new Winter Sale so you can pick up some other cheap games too.

Humble Store is doing a big Fall Sale, save on loads until December 1

By Liam Dawe, Nov 20, 2020

Another chance to stock up for the weekend and the coming Winter, as Humble Store are running a big Fall Sale and as usual there's plenty discounted you might like.

What have you been playing recently and what's your pick this weekend?

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2020

It's coming to the end of another week on planet Earth. More games have released, tons have seen updates and it's time for another chit-chat.

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You can now be a majestic Unicorn commander in Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26, 2020

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is real-time strategy game about war on a massive interplanetary scale and you can pick different commander units to control like the new majestic Unicorn.

FTL: Faster Than Light now has Steam Achievements over seven years after release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 30, 2020

Subset Games today released a small update to FTL: Faster Than Light, finally giving it some Steam Achievements after the original release in 2012.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS may finally work on Mesa for Intel and AMD GPUs on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Nov 26, 2019

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, the massive-scale real-time strategy game from Planetary Annihilation Inc (who took over from Uber Ent) recently had another update and it seems to be a big improvement.

Valve has an Armistice Sale and Singles Day sale on Steam with some good Linux games cheap

By Liam Dawe, Nov 11, 2019

Yet another chance to grab a game or two from your wishlist perhaps? The Armistice Sale on Steam supports the War Child UK charity and there's also a Singles Day sale.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has a big update available with major Linux issues (updated)

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7, 2019

Planetary Annihilation Inc continue updating and expanding their massive scale RTS Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with a new major update available.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS still seeing updates, Mesa issues on Linux being looked into

By Liam Dawe, Aug 19, 2019

Celebrating one year since Planetary Annihilation Inc took over development of Planetary Annihilation: TITANS from Uber Entertainment, the team have given an update.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Steam has a sale on

By Liam Dawe, Jul 18, 2019

Lookout! Another sale is approaching! This time it's Valve's turn, with Steam having a space themed sale for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Your weekend look at what good stuff is currently on sale

By Liam Dawe, Jun 29, 2019

Another week is behind us, let's take a look at some seriously good deals that are going on right now across different stores.

Get Age of Wonders III free in the Humble Spring Sale, lots on sale for Linux fans

By Liam Dawe, May 9, 2019

Humble Store has just put up their Spring Sale and with it you can get Age of Wonders III free for a limit time, so act fast.

Humble Store are giving away Tacoma during their Indie Mega Week sale

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21, 2019

Humble Store has another free game from you to grab with Tacoma, along with their Indie Mega Week sale now live.

Linux Gaming News Punch - Episode 3

By Liam Dawe, Mar 9, 2019

It's the weekend again and that means another episode of the Linux Gaming News Punch, a bite-sized podcast giving those with little time a chance to keep up. Coming in at just under 8 minutes, here is Episode 3.