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Spaceship building and combat game 'BossConstructor' now offers more customisation

By Liam Dawe,
If you're a complete space nerd like me, you might want to know that BossConstructor is now a damn fine game and it's still being updated with new stuff.

JASEM is a bright and flashy twin-stick shooter with a lot to love about it

By Liam Dawe,
If you play only one twin-stick shooter this month, make it 'JASEM: Just Another Shooter with Electronic Music' as it's properly good.

Hinterhalt, a small-scale WW2 strategy game that's showing a lot of promise

By Liam Dawe,
Hinterhalt, a WW2 small-scale strategy game that's currently in Early Access has Linux support and it's showing a lot of promise already.

AT SUNDOWN, a top-down shooter where light is your enemy

By Liam Dawe,
AT SUNDOWN looks like a pretty fun shooter, one where the map is covered in darkness and light is your enemy.

The Talos Principle updated with Vulkan improvements, OpenGL fixes and more, plus some benchmarks

By Liam Dawe,
Croteam are continuing to be one of my favourite developers, as The Talos Principle has been patched with some goodies.

Need to relax? Guppy is a simple game about trying to survive as a fish

By Liam Dawe,
Since releases are always light at the start of a year, I've been able to look over some more titles sent to our Steam Curator. Guppy is one such game, that sees you become a fish.

Breaking apart massive bosses in the Breakout-like 'Puppet Kings', some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
I have fond memories of Breakout as a child, my son even has a rather low quality version on his 'kids camera' and Puppet Kings is an interesting take on it.

Escape a hostile takeover in ‘Turnover’, some thoughts on this stealth game

By Liam Dawe,
I love stealth games, so when the chance came to test Turnover, where you’re escaping a hostile takeover of your company HQ I couldn’t pass it up.

The Linux port of EVERSPACE is still being worked on

By Liam Dawe,
A developer from the studio behind the awesome space shooter EVERSPACE has given an update on the status of the Linux port.

First-person sci-fi mystery 'The Station' has a new trailer and launch date

By Liam Dawe,
I'm not sure I can contain my hype on this, but I shall try. The Station has a new release date and a new trailer.

GOG have a little sale on again, time to get some cheap games

By Liam Dawe,
GOG are having a little sale yet again, so let's have a look and see what good deals they have going for Linux gamers.

Feral has patched Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III for Linux to fix Vulkan on NVIDIA 384

By Liam Dawe,
For those who noticed Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III was a bit broken on the NVIDIA 384 driver series, Feral has now fixed it.

Descenders is an extreme downhill biking game is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Although it may not list it on the Steam store page, the developer of Descenders, an extreme downhill biking game has confirmed it will be released for Linux.

AMD announces Zen 2 design is 'complete', Zen+ now 'sampling' and more

By Liam Dawe,
More processor news today, as AMD has released a fair bit of information from their plans including Zen 2 and Zen+.

Intel launches their new CPUs with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics along with two new 'NUC' mini-pc models

By Liam Dawe,
Yesterday, Intel officially announced the release of their new CPUs that come with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics. On top of that, they've launched two new NUC models (their mini-PCs).

Turns out Linux market share on Steam did not go back up in December

By Liam Dawe,
As mentioned in my last article talking about the Steam Hardware Survey, Valve sometimes adjusts the numbers a few days later. They have again and this time they adjusted the Linux market share on Steam down, not up.

Steam hits another record of over 18.5 million concurrent users online

By Liam Dawe,
Steam continues to get bigger with another milestone being reached! Yesterday Steam shot passed 18 million concurrent users online.

Questr blends together a dating-app swipe mechanic with an RPG, it's weird

By Liam Dawe,
Swipe right to invite people to adventure with you! Questr is a somewhat amusing mix of RPG party-based gameplay, with jokes aimed at dating apps.

VK9, the project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan reached another milestone

By Liam Dawe,
In late December last year, the developer of the VK9 project emailed us about hitting another milestone with their project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan.

Wine 3.0 RC5 released, it's a pretty quiet one

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 3.0 RC5 was released yesterday and it's a very quiet release in terms of bug fixes, but here it is anyway.