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Psyonix give some details on the item shop coming to Rocket League


By Liam Squires-Hand
One of the last pieces of the pie to replace their current loot box system in Rocket League is the Item Shop, which Psyonix have now talked about.

Remote Play Together released out of Beta, big sale now on Steam


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve have decided to remove the training wheels from Remote Play Together and give it a released sticker along with a big sale.

Godot Engine has a new Platinum sponsor with gambling game dev Interblock


By Liam Squires-Hand
Good news for Godot Engine, as they have another company supporting their work on the free and open source game engine.

Operate a kitchen of the future in Neon Noodles, now with a Linux demo


By Liam Squires-Hand
Neon Noodles is all about the future of food preparation, which has you programming a little robot worker to make a tasty dish.

Turn-based tactical steampunk combat arrives with Steam Marines 2 now in Early Access


By Liam Squires-Hand
Worthless Bums has just recently released the followup to their 2014 title Steam Marines, now in 3D and with an aim to be a more complex game than the original.

MOLEK-SYNTEZ from Zachtronics has left Early Access, hopefully coming to GOG soon


By Liam Squires-Hand
MOLEK-SYNTEZ, the latest engrossing puzzle game from Zachtronics had only a very brief time in Early Access to ensure it was nicely polished and now it's out in full.

Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt has a new release up with SMAA support


By Liam Squires-Hand
Continuing to boost the feature set of the post-processing layer for vkBasalt, a new release is up and it appears we missed a few smaller in-between releases too.

DXVK 1.4.5 released bringing further performance improvements for D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan


By Liam Squires-Hand
DXVK continues maturing with another exciting sounding release now available with DXVK 1.4.5, bringing in some performance improvements and plenty of bug fixes.

The sad case of Trine on Mesa and Linux in 2019


By Hamish
Lacklustre Linux sales and internal restructuring appear to have taken Frozenbyte out of the Linux market for good, and with even their old games struggling to run well on the Mesa graphics stack, it marks a sad end to a series that once provided so much colour to our platform.

Google Stadia is out now for early adopters, well a few anyway


By Liam Squires-Hand
Today, the Google Stadia streaming service officially launched for those who picked up the Founder or Premier Edition.

Path of Exile continues down the Vulkan path, with a possible port to Linux mentioned


By Liam Squires-Hand
We've known for a while that the massive and popular RPG Path of Exile was going to get a Vulkan API implementation and they would have liked to do Linux support, seems like they're continuing that line of thinking.

Time to play some classic Command & Conquer as OpenRA has a huge fresh stable release out


By Liam Squires-Hand
OpenRA, the free and open source game engine to bring classic Command & Conquer titles like Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Dune 2000 and eventually Tiberian Sun to modern systems has a big new release up.

Open-ended village life sim Village Monsters set in a forgotten game world enters Early Access


By Liam Squires-Hand
Village Monsters, the open-ended village life game set in a forgotten video game world has entered Early Access with Linux support.

SamRewritten is an open source Steam Achievements Manager for Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Want an easy way to view, lock and unlock Steam Achievements on Linux? SamRewritten seems like a very handy application to do all of that and more.

The fantastic co-op space sandbox Avorion should now be easier to get going


By Liam Squires-Hand
Avorion already had a lot of things truly nailed down, from the freedom to build and explore to the excellent presentation but one thing it lacked was a good experience for newer users. Now it should be much improved.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's mission system in Operation Shattered Web is pretty good


By Liam Squires-Hand
I will admit, after dropping an update last night with a big new Operation for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive I was a little sceptical with the Battle Pass system. However, it's surprisingly good.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive releases the huge Operation Shattered Web update


By Liam Squires-Hand
Not content with just announcing Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title, Valve also updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with a big new operation called Shattered Web.

Confessing my continued love for Jupiter Hell, the super slick roguelike


By Liam Squires-Hand
Regular readers won't be surprised by my love for Jupiter Hell, I've written about it a few times now and the latest update just continues to allow me to gush about it.

Start your week off with a new game, here's a few for Linux going cheap


By Liam Squires-Hand
Another week, another sale of course. Let's have a little look over what's going cheap for Linux gamers across this week.

The surprisingly good deck-builder Fate Hunters has arrived on GOG


By Liam Squires-Hand
Releasing originally back in July, Fate Hunters is another deck-building roguelike filled with random encounters and just recently it was released DRM-free on GOG.