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As AMD launch the monster 3990X CPU, System76 offer it up with their stylish Thelio Major


By Liam Squires-Hand
Today, AMD officially made the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X available as a seriously high-end desktop processor. Along with that, System76 jumped in right away to give it as an option on their powerful Thelio Major.

Please Follow is another short and very tense psychological horror


By Liam Squires-Hand
Please Follow from developer somewhat who also made Please (which I certainly enjoyed) recently released another short psychological horror.

Lotus Reverie - a Visual Novel with a slice of turn-based strategy and a game of survival


By Liam Squires-Hand
Always looking for a Visual Novel to pull me back into the genre with something different, Lotus Reverie ~ First Nexus seems like it has the makings for a good story.

Impressive space sandbox 'Avorion' leaving Early Access on March 9


By Liam Squires-Hand
Boxelware have officially set a date for their spectacular space sandbox game, Avorion, to leave Early Access.

Road Redemption gets a slightly amusing Revengers Assemble DLC - also has multiple monitor support


By Liam Squires-Hand
Revengers Assemble! Why does that sound so familiar? I can't think why. Road Redemption, the modern Road Rash-like just gained a big new DLC.

Build massive circuits in 'Logic World' (prev. The Ultimate Nerd Game) releasing in March


By Liam Squires-Hand
Logic World (previously known at TUNG - The Ultimate Nerd Game), a game about building circuits and making fun machines with them now has a release date.

Valve making steps to address toxic behaviour on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive


By Liam Squires-Hand
One of my all-time favourite first-person shooters, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is about to tell naughty players to sort their attitude out.

Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK has another small release up


By Liam Squires-Hand
Another fresh release of the Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer, DXVK, was released today which continues their cycle of bug fixing.

Humble Store has some great Linux games on sale right now


By Liam Squires-Hand
It's coming up to the weekend, so here's a little look at some of the great games you can get for cheaps on Humble Store.

Steam hitting nearly 95 million 'monthly active' users and other Steam news


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve are talking a lot more lately, actually telling us what's been going on and what some of their plans are. In their latest blog post, they had plenty to share.

Fast-paced free-moving rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' out now and it's damn good


By Liam Squires-Hand
Flying Oak Games might have done the unthinkable here, they may have dethroned Dead Cells in my heart with ScourgeBringer.

The creator of Pony Island is back with a strange narrative-infused deck-builder 'Inscryption'


By Liam Squires-Hand
Daniel Mullins Games (Pony Island, The Hex) announced their latest game that's been in development for over a year. It's called Inscryption and it's a narrative focused, card-based deck building roguelike.

UAlbion is an open source game engine for the 1995 classic RPG 'Albion'


By Liam Squires-Hand
Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech


By Liam Squires-Hand
Late last month to coincide with the 24th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D, the EDuke32 fork Raze was announced.

You can test the huge "Nether Update" for Minecraft in the latest Snapshot


By Liam Squires-Hand
Mojang are busy bees working on a massive update to Minecraft, mainly focusing on expanding The Nether and you can test out this big update in a brand new Snapshot.

Unitystation, a cross-platform remake of Space Station 13 has a first public build up


By Liam Squires-Hand
Space Station 13 is something of a classic, released way back in 2003 on the BYOND service. It's being remade with Unity to have a more modern experience, as well as being cross-platform.

2.5D multiplayer military shooter 'Soldat 2' announced - yes it's a proper sequel


By Liam Squires-Hand
Today, Michal Marcinkowski of Transhuman Design officially announced a sequel to the classic 2D side-view multiplayer action game Soldat.

Collabora's FOSDEM videos are up, including one on putting Linux games in Containers on Steam


By Liam Squires-Hand
In a recent update to the Linux Steam Client, the ability to run Linux games inside a special container was added in. At the FOSDEM event, Collabora's Simon McVittie gave a talk on it.

City-building god sim 'The Universim' enters Beta, full release this year


By Liam Squires-Hand
After a long road since the Kickstarter in 2014, Crytivo's city-builder that mixes in some god sim elements The Universim is now considered to be in Beta with a huge update.

With colourful and gorgeous pixel-art 'Mists of Noyah' enters Early Access soon


By Liam Squires-Hand
Entering Early Access on February 26, Mists of Noyah looks like an incredibly promising 2D co-op action survival game with some really gorgeous artwork.