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PRIM looks like an incredible gothic burtonesque adventure with a demo coming soon

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

Common Colors are currently creating PRIM, a point and click adventure with traditional frame-by-frame animation and a dark gothic style that's inspired by Tim Burton.

Dust: The Abandoned Land is a surprising free open-world 2D survival game

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

Dust: The Abandoned Land is an in-development 2D open-world survival game, one that has a surprising amount of features and you can play it online with others.

The Ranchers is an upcoming open-world country-life RPG sim

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

Love your open-world games? How about farming life sims? The Ranchers looks like another great entry into this more casual and laid-back part of the gaming world.

Slimbook reveal the Ryzen 7 and RTX 3070 powered Titan

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

Slimbook, the Linux friendly hardware company that offers Linux as a choice on their hardware has revealed the powerful Titan laptop that's ready for pre-orders.

Stadia gets Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and HITMAN 3 this month

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

For the Stadia users amongst our readership: two more big name games will be heading to the Linux and Vulkan powered game streaming service this month.

NVIDIA reveal the GeForce RTX 3060, plus lots of GeForce RTX laptops

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Today CES continues on with Intel and AMD having their announcements, and now it's NVIDIA up with the GeForce RTX 3060, plus lots of GeForce RTX laptops.

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs, RDNA 2 GPUs in the first half of 2021

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Plenty of AMD news announced today during the digital CES event, with new CPUs and GPUs on the way for this year including the Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs.

Revolutionary Games continue building up their free evolution game Thrive

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Starting off as nothing but a tiny little cell in a massive world, Thrive is a free and open source evolution sim backed up by the power of science.

Virtual Reality voxel building game cyubeVR will be supporting Linux in a future build

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Minecraft in VR that's a bit more hands on? cyubeVR (pronounced Cube VR) looks absolutely delightful, and the developer has confirmed their full intention to support Linux too.

Experimental Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu adds Linux AppImage for easier launching

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

While still highly experimental and quite a hassle to setup legitimately, the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu is still another fine example of open source.

The open source Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher has a big overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Work on Heroic Games Launcher, the open source Linux alternative to the Epic Games Store continues rapid improvements with a huge new release out now.

BROK the InvestiGator is an upcoming amusing sounding 'Punch & Click'

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

We've seen classic point and click adventures but what about merging one with a beat 'em up? Punch & Click appears to be what you get with BROK the InvestiGator.

Get ready for more Intel with new processor announcements for ultraportable gaming

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

While CES has moved online, many companies continue to make announcements and Intel decided to take the time to announce some fresh CPUs coming aimed at ultraportable gaming.

Get your big-screen Linux gaming on with a new GamerOS release

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

The SteamOS-like big-screen Linux gaming distribution GamerOS has a fresh release out, with some surprising new features integrated and it's looking slick.

Is opening up your source code worth it? Terry Cavanagh thinks it was for VVVVVV

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

A lot of game developer still worry about being more open with their code but it seems Terry Cavanagh (VVVVVV, Super Hexagon, Dicey Dungeons) believes it was worth it.

Looks like we may see Steam properly on Chrome OS by the end of 2021

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

In a move that might help boost Linux gaming numbers, it seems Google are still moving forward with their plan to get Steam running properly native on Chrome OS during 2021.

Fast-paced competitive score-fight platformer Jumpala releases January 19

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

Yokereba Games have teamed up with publisher Versus Evil for the release of Jumpala, a game that takes competitive platforming and turns it into a high-speed score-fight.

Monster taming metroidvania Monster Sanctuary looks like it will have a busy 2021

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

After releasing in late 2020, the monster battling metroidvania mix in Monster Sanctuary was quite a highlight and it's getting bigger and better this year.

GNOME Shell to get an Activities Overview design revamp in GNOME 40

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

GNOME Shell is already quite different to how traditional desktop environments feel, and they're planning to mix things up again with some design overhauls for GNOME 40.

NES-style free chiptune music maker FamiStudio has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

Free, open source and a lot of fun to get mixing, FamiStudio is a wonderful application for making some retro tunes and there's a new release available.