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Upcoming cyberpunk point and click Invasive Recall has an awesome vibe to it

By Liam Dawe,
Another high quality point and click adventure has been announced with Invasive Recall, a cyberpunk game set in the not-so-distant future where there's a device that can scan and interpret thoughts of the human mind.

Time to get testing Ubuntu 21.04 ahead of release, plus Canonical loses another face

By Liam Dawe,
We seem to have missed the actual Ubuntu Testing Week but a late reminder is better than none at all right? With Ubuntu 21.04 coming soon it's time to report the bugs.

2D first-person point-and-click adventure The Wild Case is out now

By Liam Dawe,
2D and yet first-person? Imagine playing a hidden object game but it's a point and click adventure, that's sort of what you get with the new release of The Wild Case.

Tyrant's Blessing will offer up slick tactical battles inspired by Into the Breach

By Liam Dawe,
Into the Breach is a fantastic game that really hits the mark for turn-based strategy fans and now Mercury Game Studio are doing their own take on that style with Tyrant's Blessing.

Fast-paced futuristic Wipeout-like racer Metric Racer adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
If you need a new fast-pacing racing fix, check out the promising looking Early Access game Metric Racer which has recently added Linux support on Steam.

Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers announced as a follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for a little romance and some classic arcade gaming? Well, Fiction Factory Games and PQube Limited recently announced Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers as a follow-up to the 2019 title Arcade Spirits.

Classic Zelda-styled multiplayer brawler Steelbreakers is out now and free

By Liam Dawe,
Out for your next local multiplayer experience? Steelbreakers takes the style of classic Zelda games and turns it into an arena-styled brawler with different maps and modes.

Diablo source port reimplementation DevilutionX version 1.2 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
DevilutionX aims to make playing the classic Diablo and Hellfire on modern systems a breeze, with a full public domain coded reimplementation and a big new 1.2 version is out now.

UNBEATABLE presents a very stylish world where music is illegal

By Liam Dawe,
Probably one of the coolest looking and sounding games I've seen in a long time, UNBEATABLE seems like it has everything going for it and it successfully funded on Kickstarter in only a few hours.

Go on an adventure through Renaissance art in The Frogs, try out the demo

By Liam Dawe,
Done in a similar amusing way to The Procession to Calvary (different developer), the upcoming point and click adventure The Frogs puts you into Renaissance art based on a play from Aristophanes.

Quirky comedy point and click adventure Dude, Where Is My Beer? is out for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in slightly weird and quirky comedy adventures? Dude, Where Is My Beer? is now available for Linux.

Take on procedurally-generated bosses in Whisker Squadron from the dev of Race The Sun

By Liam Dawe,
Race The Sun was a wonderful little game released back in 2013 and now Flippfly LLC are back with a new more combat-focused game called Whisker Squadron that might scratch your Star Fox itch.

Vectorio is a new free to play survival tower defense game out on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
If you love tower defense games mixed with a little real-time strategy try out Vectorio, a new Early Access release on Steam that blends them together and it's free too.

8-bit inspired horror Sunshine Manor to release this Fall and has a new trailer up

By Liam Dawe,
Bringing on some 8-bit inspired horror, Sunshine Manor from Fossil Games is confirmed to be releasing this Fall and the developer put out a new trailer.

Management sim with an infinite voxel world 'Voxel Tycoon' heads to Steam on April 15

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for your next time-sink? After being in pre-alpha on itch.io for a few years, Voxel Tycoon is now preparing the move over to Steam Early Access.

If you enjoyed A Short Hike keep an eye on the upcoming Haven Park

By Liam Dawe,
Planned for release in June 2021, Haven Park from developer Fabien Weibel looks absolutely lovely and very much reminds me of the 2019 hit A Short Hike.

Try the demo for the sweet RPG Zoe and the Cursed Dreamer from Game Endeavor

By Liam Dawe,
Popular game dev YouTuber Game Endeavor has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Zoe and the Cursed Dreamer, a cozy open world RPG where you’ll meet lovable quirky characters.

US Supreme Court sides with Google against Oracle about copying APIs being 'fair use'

By Liam Dawe,
It's being widely reported today that in the decade-long battle of Google vs Oracle that the US Supreme Court has now finally ruled in Google's favour. This is huge, for Linux and Linux Gaming too.

Save houses from the spreading fire in the puzzle game Wildfire Swap

By Liam Dawe,
Forest fires are everywhere, they're spreading and it's up to you to ensure people's houses are safe in Wildfire Swap.

Wildermyth ignored April Fools with the addition of multiplayer and controller support

By Liam Dawe,
No fooling around here, Worldwalker Games decided not to do any April Fools shenanigans for Wildermyth and instead release a massive upgrade adding in multiplayer and controller support.