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Amazon Luna cloud gaming launches in Canada, Germany and the UK

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Amazon Luna, the cloud gaming service has finally expanded into more territories. They're also no longer blocking Linux.

Warside is a pixel-art turn-based tactics game much like Advance Wars

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Love turn-based tactics and classics like Advance Wars? You should keep an eye on Warside, as it's firmly channelling that same energy.

Colourful retro platformer Frogun Encore announced for Summer 2023

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Frogun Encore is the follow-up to Frogun from Molegato and Top Hat Studios, Inc. that was released in 2022, giving more family-friendly retro inspired 3D platforming.

Upcoming city-builder HexLands sounds like a relaxing time

By Liam Squires-Hand,
HexLands from Portgate Studios has been announced with a new Steam page live, taking inspiration from the likes of Islanders, Dorf Romantik and Sid Meier's Civilization.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition 2.0 is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a great front-end open source app for managing various emulators. A big 2.0 release went up recently too!

Mask of the Rose set to release on June 8th

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mask of the Rose, the incredibly stylish upcoming dating sim visual novel from Sunless Skies creator Failbetter Games is set to now release on June 8th.

Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After being in Beta for a while for pre-orders, Big Ambitions, a role-playing business sim from Hovgaard Games (who previously developed Startup Company) launched in Early Access on Steam and then dropped Native Linux support.

Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne has a new trailer

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Rain Games, developer of the Teslagrad series, World to the West and others are still working away on Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne and it finally has a new trailer.

Developer of Deadnaut: Signal Lost requests Linux testers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Deadnaut: Signal Lost from Screwfly Studios is an upcoming fast-paced sci-fi roguelike with a pretty unique style. The developer got in touch, as they want plenty more Linux testing.

GOG Spring Sale is live with more free games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOG are doing their own Spring Sale live now, and during it they will be giving away four free games.

MiLE HiGH TAXi out now blending Crazy Taxi with The Fifth Element

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Fifth Element and Crazy Taxi are both classics, so one developer decided to try and combine them together into a game.

Striving for Light: Survival blends popular horde survivor games with a big skill tree

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you enjoy games like Vampire Survivors, Brotato and the other horde survival games? You may want to look at Striving for Light: Survival.

Here's how to run Diablo 4 on Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Diablo 4 is currently in Beta and due to launch soon, so here's how to get it working on Steam Deck. The same steps can be used to get it working on Linux desktop too.

Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack and the free 3.7 update are out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Paradox have released the latest DLC for Stellaris with the First Contact Story Pack, along with a free update for all players.

Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Wine 8.4 development release is out now for this Windows translation layer, part of what makes Steam Play Proton tick.

Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you game on Ubuntu or one of their flavours like Kubuntu or Xubuntu? Canonical want your help in further testing of the Steam snap.

It's itch.io Creator Day where they take no cut of sales

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The game store itch.io is having another Creator Day where they take no cut from sales. They also have a sitewide sale for the whole weekend.

WorldBox - God Simulator adds in alliances, ages, clans and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
WorldBox - God Simulator is a fun way to spend a coffee break, giving you a little world to mess about with and a big new update is out now to give it a little bit more depth.

Cities: Skylines final expansion is in May, with a bunch of stuff coming soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Cities: Skylines 2 is on the way but Paradox and Colossal Order aren't done just yet with Cities: Skylines. Multiple new content additions were just announced.

Half-Life: MMod gets a release on Steam

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Half-Life: MMod just released on Steam, a mod for the original Half-Life that overhauls many parts of it to create something that feels fresh.