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Survival game Vintage Story gets another huge upgrade with improved combat

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story continues to impress with not just the rate they can churn out updates, but also how much they manage to stuff into each of them.

Project Zomboid has big plans for 2022 and beyond, with NPCs on the way

By Liam Dawe,
After a great many years in Early Access, Project Zomboid has finally hit the big time with it regularly seeing multiple tens of thousands of players and they have some big plans.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 8: Shovelware with a Penguin

By Hamish,
After completing all of the boxed Quake games for Linux, I was left with indecision. So if I could not settle on a single game to play, why not try one hundred? Made for a time of slow internet speeds and limited storage, these kinds of retail collections allowed users to explore hundreds of freeware and shareware titles from the comfort of a single CD-ROM.

The latest Humble Bundle brings a few scary looking treats, plus an indie hits sale

By Liam Dawe,
Need a few new games to add to your collection? Perhaps readying up for the Steam Deck that should be launching next month? The Humble Dead of Winter Bundle is live - as is a nice sale on indie games.

Pixel-art turn-based RPG fans - check out the demo for Of Blades & Tails

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in checking out a fresh upcoming pixel-art turn-based RPG? Of Blades & Tails looks pretty great and there's now a demo available to try.

Check out the original Half-Life with Ray Tracing

By Liam Dawe,
Want to play with some real-time path tracing in Half-Life? Well, a modder is doing just that and has released a small teaser to show it off.

Upcoming GZDoom-powered FPS Selaco shows off the 'AI Response System'

By Liam Dawe,
As if I could get any more excited? Selaco just looks simply incredible in the footage we've seen previously, this new GZDoom-powered FPS is going to kick-ass.

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea DLC is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for another run? Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea DLC is out now and brings with it plenty of new enemies to hack and slash your way through.

Linux Mint 20.3 is out with theme adjustments, Document Manager, Dark Mode

By Liam Dawe,
Another brand new distribution release with Linux Mint 20.3 now officially available following the Beta release in December 2021.

Linux Kernel 5.16 is out now bringing the futex2 work to help Linux Gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux Kernel 5.16, bringing with it the usual assortment of new hardware support and improvements everywhere. Plus, there's something big for Linux gaming fans.

There it is - Steam breaks 28 million users online

By Liam Dawe,
Well, that didn't take long now did it? After hitting a new high on January 2 that was very close to the big milestone, just today Steam officially passed 28 million users online.

Easy Anti-Cheat not as simple as expected for Proton and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Even though Epic Games announced recently how they expanded support for Easy Anti-Cheat to have full support of native Linux, plus Wine / Proton (and so the Steam Deck), it seems it's not as easy as we hoped.

Tiny Life is an upcoming pixel-art take on experiences like The Sims

By Liam Dawe,
Tiny Life is an upcoming game trying to capture the essence of games like The Sims, but in an isometric pixelart style.

Check out some fresh Haunted Chocolatier screenshots

By Liam Dawe,
Haunted Chocolatier is the next game from Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe (Eric Barone), we still don't yet know a huge amount about it but the dev recently showed some fresh screenshots.

ChimeraOS 29 brings fixes for Aya Neo, GPD Win 3 and more upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to refine the SteamOS-like full-screen experience, ChimeraOS 29 is out now bringing on upgrades and plenty of bug fixes too.

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing gets a huge physics update, new racing environment

By Liam Dawe,
Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing is a very good simulator and it just got that little bit better, with update 1.4.0 out now bringing some major improvements.

Dell announce the new XPS 13 Plus with Ubuntu supported

By Liam Dawe,
During CES 2022 Dell announced the brand new XPS 13 Plus, which overhauls the design and it looks pretty slick.

System76 tease their new 'Kudu' laptop with the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

By Liam Dawe,
Looking for a new high-end laptop for your Linux needs? System76, makers of Pop!_OS have teased their latest with the Kudu that blends together the worlds of AMD and NVIDIA.

Relic Space shows off its very satisfying space roguelike gameplay in a demo

By Liam Dawe,
Love space sci-fi and roguelikes? Relic Space blends them together and it's really beginning to look like a game that's going to steal endless hours away from me.

Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward "Horizons" upgrade brings Volcanic islands

By Liam Dawe,
Another major update has landed for the sweet top-down wilderness survival roguelike Wayward, bringing with it a whole new Volcanic island type and much more.