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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut announced and will support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is the upcoming expanded and improved enhancement over the original that launched in 2016 and the developer has confirmed Linux support too.

Stadia has games free to try this weekend for Stadia Pro, 'Project Hailstorm' is teased

By Liam Dawe,
More new games, free games to try out on Stadia Pro from now until the end of the weekend and some super secret projects currently in the works for Stadia.

Jumpala is an intense score-fighting highly competitive action-platformer out now

By Liam Dawe,
Jump across platforms to turn them your colour, use abilities to mess with your opponents and try to keep platforms your colour as they fall off the screen to score - Jumpala is a lot of fun.

Team17 have acquired the full rights to Golf With Your Friends

By Liam Dawe,
Seems January is the time for acquisitions! Following the news recently of YoYo Games (GameMaker Studio) being acquired by Opera, we now have Team17 buying the full rights to Golf With Your Friends ("GWYF").

Space Otter Charlie looks like a truly charming upcoming Zero-G puzzle platformer

By Liam Dawe,
Space Otter Charlie is a Zero-G platformer puzzler with cute characters and visuals, odd weapons and it looks thoroughly charming. It's due out later in this year.

Valve have multiple games in development they will announce says Gabe Newell

By Liam Dawe,
Gabe Newell of Valve Software (Steam) recently spoke to 1 NEWS in New Zealand about everything that has been going on and teased a few fun details.

Vietnam joins Civilization VI in the next DLC for the New Frontier Pass on January 28

By Liam Dawe,
Firaxis has confirmed the next DLC that forms part of the New Frontier Pass for Civilization VI will be releasing on January 28. Here's some highlights of what's to come.

Linux on the Apple M1 takes another step closer with Ubuntu working thanks to Corellium

By Liam Dawe,
ARM virtualization company Corellium has managed to get Ubuntu Linux running on the next-generation Apple M1.

Play the charming co-op construction game Unrailed! free for a few days plus big sale

By Liam Dawe,
Unrailed! from Daedalic Entertainment and Indoor Astronaut released back in September 2020 and now you have a chance to play for free to end your week.

Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
The European Commission just announced that they've now issued formal fines against Valve, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax for breaching their antitrust rules. Update: added statement from Valve.

Aveliana is a beautiful upcoming infiltration-action game mixing 2D and 2.5D styles

By Liam Dawe,
TheFrenchDev have announced Aveliana, what they're calling an infiltration-action-adventure game that mixes together 2D and 2.5D to create a unique looking style.

YoYo Games developer of GameMaker Studio sold for $10M (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Game Maker and later GameMaker Studio is a very popular game engine with indie developers and YoYo Games just recently sold it off and it appears they did so at a loss. Update: Opera confirmed as the new owner.

Steampunk survival game Volcanoids has a huge combat upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Stuck on an island where the volcano is erupting constantly, Volcanoids is an interesting setting for a survival game that gives you a big moving drill for a base.

Steamworks gets Denuvo Anti-Cheat, here's what Irdeto say about Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Irdeto, the company behind Denuvo and the newer Denuvo Anti-Cheat have announced that developers on Steam can now get direct anti-cheat integration through Steamworks. Here's what they said about working with Linux.

NERTS! Online from Zachtronics gets expanded public multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
NERTS! Online is the free to play card game from the clever people at Zachtronics (Eliza, Opus Magnum, Infinifactory) that was created to help them play together that they released free to the public.

Stellaris will get more mysterious with Intel gathering and Espionage systems

By Liam Dawe,
Stellaris from Paradox Development Studios gets a lot right in how it deals with grand space strategy but some parts of it are still being expanded.

Silly comedy adventure Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac gets a permanent price drop

By Liam Dawe,
Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac, a comedy point and click adventure by La Poule Noire that released in early 2020 has been given a big permanent price cut.

Open source PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play client Chiaki has a final release

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of Chiaki, a free and open source Remote Play client that supports both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 has gone out with a bit of a bang.

With turn-based strategy and time management the VN Lotus Reverie: First Nexus is out now

By Liam Dawe,
After a brand new visual novel that does a little more than walk you through a story? Lotus Reverie: First Nexus looks like a good option taking inspiration from Devil Survivor and Persona.

GOG has a huge sale on RPGs and sees the return of the classic Moonstone

By Liam Dawe,
Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight is something of a classic, a game from my childhood and it has returned to GOG to give you an easy way to grab it and GOG are running a huge sale on RPGs.