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

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 37: Dashing Through the Snow

By Hamish,
A common refrain has always been that if developers would just provide access to their source code, then the Linux community would be happy to step in and do the heavy lifting for them; and when Slingshot Game Technology decided to call our bluff and released Soul Ride under the GNU General Public License in 2003, the Linux community did indeed rise to the challenge.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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!

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.

Times of Progress is an upcoming city-builder set during the Industrial Revolution

By Liam Dawe,
City-builder fans may want to keep an eye on this one. Pressing Thumbs Games just revealed Times of Progress, a classic city-builder set during the Industrial Revolution.

Death Stranding from Kojima is getting the live-action movie treatment

By Liam Dawe,
Death Stranding from Kojima Productions is being turned into a movie, with A24 (Everything Everywhere All at Once) taking on the job.

Mixing ideas from Chess and base-building strategy games, protect your King in Emplacement

By Liam Dawe,
Emplacement is a King versus King turn-based strategy game, all about placing down tiles in a way that's a bit like Chess mixed with ideas from other more traditional turn-based strategy games.