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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.

Check out the new demo for party-based RPG Call of Saregnar

By Liam Dawe,
Giving a firm nod to classic 90s RPGs, you can try out a brand new demo for the upcoming Call of Saregnar.

Easily install and upgrade Proton GE or Luxtorpeda with ProtonUp-Qt

By Liam Dawe,
There are certain games that work better with the community-built unofficial Proton GE, plus using Luxtorpeda for Native Linux game engines can give a lot of benefits too - here's how to easily download or upgrade them using the fab ProtonUp-Qt.

ΔV: Rings of Saturn continues to be popular with Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
It seems that Kodera Software continue to be impressed by the level of Linux sales on Steam for their space mining sim ΔV: Rings of Saturn.

Mozilla looking to improve Twitch playback in Firefox

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love watching Twitch livestreams? I bet there's plenty amongst our readers! Well, it seems Mozilla are looking into making it better with Firefox.

Humble Choice gets Iron Harvest and Mafia: Definitive Edition

By Liam Dawe,
Another month is here and so is the next Humble Choice with a fresh selection of games to pick from.

Remnants of the Precursors is a modern take on Master of Orion out now

By Liam Dawe,
Developed as a modern reincarnation of the original Master of Orion, the free and open source Remnants of the Precursors is officially out now.

LatencyFleX offers a generic open source latency reduction middleware

By Liam Dawe,
Want to reduce latency? There's now a free and open source way with LatencyFleX, that gives a vendor and game agnostic latency reduction middleware that you can try out.

KDE finally gets root operations in Dolphin, big 2022 plans for Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
KDE developer Nate Graham continues blogging about how KDE and Plasma are evolving and there's been some great improvements recently, along with some huge plans for 2022.

3D rendering engine OGRE 2.3 released adding Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
Even more Vulkan goodness came recently with OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) releasing Ogre-Next 2.3.0 Deadalus just before Christmas.

Send help as I have discovered Bloons TD 6

By Liam Dawe,
Stepping slightly out of my comfort zone recently to try something different, I picked up a copy of Bloons TD 6 and I think I now may need help to tear myself away from it.

Free top-down action game Steelbreakers gets a bunch of new maps

By Liam Dawe,
Love local multiplayer action games? Do check out Steelbreakers, a free 2D top-down multiplayer arena fighter.

Intel announces new CPUs, more detail on Arc "Alchemist" graphics

By Liam Dawe,
Today at their own CES 2022 event, Intel had some interesting announcements for PC fans with some new processors coming.

NVIDIA announce GeForce RTX 3050, RTX 3090 Ti and high-end laptop GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
CES 2022 continues with NVIDIA doing their presentation today where they announced more for their streaming service GeForce NOW, new monitors from parters with GSYNC and new GPUs.

AMD shows off new hardware at CES 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Today, AMD presented their 2022 Product Premiere at CES 2022 with a pre-recorded session hosted by Dr. Lisa Su.

Hypnagonia is an upcoming open source "spire-like" deckbuilder

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love games like Slay the Spire? I sure do and so seeing a new free and open source game appear that's inspired by it has me a little excited. This is Hypnagonia.

Project Zomboid is finally getting the player recognition it deserves

By Liam Dawe,
Project Zomboid has been hanging around in Early Access on Steam since the first year that Early Access was even thing, and after a long development period it seems it's finally seeing its popularity explode.

Maui Shell seems like a very interesting KDE graphical environment

By Liam Dawe,
In the mood to try a new desktop shell? Well, the folks behind Nitrux have formally announced Maui Shell and it sure does look pretty.

A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition

By Liam Dawe,
To begin 2022, let's take a fresh look at the current top 100 Steam games and see how well (or not) the run on Linux.

Steam hit a new all-time user count close to 28M to start 2022

By Liam Dawe,
It seems there continues to be no stopping Steam's growth, with it only just recently hitting a brand new all-time high for concurrent users online.