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Re-Logic detail the new 'Journey Mode' for Terraria 1.4 that lets you do basically anything

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Terraria is set to come to a close with the almighty Journey's End update coming out on May 16, with that comes a huge new game mode with Journey Mode.

Epic city-state simulator 'Songs of Syx' fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Songs of Syx blends quite a lot of genres together. It's part city-builder, real-time strategy, grand strategy and more. Thankfully it's also been funded with a successful Kickstarter.

The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

By Liam Squires-Hand,
For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.

UnderMine gets a final big content update with the Golden Core before leaving Early Access

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Thorium Entertainment along with publisher Fandom have announced the final major update to UnderMine, an action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in, before it leaves Early Access.

RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.

Steampunk first-person, base building survival game 'Volcanoids' gets co-op on May 20

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Volcanoids is a fantastic idea for a survival game, that lets you build and customize a great big moving drill and this month on May 20 it's getting online co-op support.

Bullet Express seems like an amusing upcoming 2D action-RPG loot shooter you can try now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
LazyGemsGames are working on Bullet Express, a new 2D action-RPG shooter where you level up and merge guns together to create their ultimate form.

Steamdolls - Order of Chaos will bring brutal steampunk metroidvania to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Steamdolls - Order of Chaos was announced recently from developer The Shady Gentlemen, giving a metroidvania a steampunk style with some brutal action.

According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.

Steam has a huge indie game sale for The Indie MEGABOOTH live now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Indie MEGABOOTH, a team that have supported indie game developers for a long time through events are now running a huge sale on indie games on Steam and there's some awesome stuff.

Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.

Stadia finally gets wireless Stadia Controller support in the web browser

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Google have again rolled out a feature they've been promising for some time, as today you can now use the Stadia Controller over wireless with a Chromium browser.

Clever and quirky musical platformer 'Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói' gets an English version

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Songs for a Hero - A Lenda do Herói has been around for a few years now, and it ended up quite popular for a good reason. It's a platformer with a clever musical twist but until now it wasn't available in English.

Manjaro Linux and Star Labs team up for their Linux-focused hardware

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops.

Free-moving fast-paced rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' adds a whole new awesome world

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ScourgeBringer entered Early Access back in February and very rapidly became one of my favourite games of this year, and it has continued being awesome with the latest update.

EVERSPACE 2 looks incredible in the latest footage, lots of player ship variation will be possible

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As ROCKFISH Games continue developing the crowdfunded space combat sim EVERSPACE 2, they've gradually showed off more footage and revealed more info.

Extreme downhill freeriding sports game Descenders has a big discount and two new tracks

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Descenders is fast, smooth and most importantly for an extreme sports game - it's intense. It's also now on a big discount with some fresh content added too.

Tasty Static, clone of the classic SkyRoads has a new release out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Remember SkyRoads? A classic 90's racing game with a bit of a twist, that acts a bit like a platformer. It has a free clone called Tasty Static, which recently had a big update. I've been a little obsessed over it too.

Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.