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Building and management sim Voxel Tycoon arrives on Steam and it's fantastic

By Liam Dawe,
Are you a fan of OpenTTD or the Transport Fever series? You should look at Voxel Tycoon, a brand new Early Access release on Steam that comes with Linux support and it's looking very good.

Finding joy in ruining everyone's day in Rain on Your Parade - out now

By Liam Dawe,
Available now with Linux support, Rain on Your Parade is a comedy puzzle-like game about being a cloud and raining all over everyone and not giving a hoot.

Stellaris: Nemesis expansion and the free 3.0 'Dick' update are out now

By Liam Dawe,
Probably the biggest update and expansion launch for Stellaris yet, Stellaris: Nemesis and the 3.0 'Dick' update are out now.

Mojang split the Minecraft Caves & Cliffs upgrade into two parts but both this year

By Liam Dawe,
Mojang say that the Caves & Cliffs update for Minecraft is "the most ambitious one we've ever developed" and so they're going to need a lot more time to finish it.

AI War 2 gets a massive 'Paradigm Shift' update out now, new expansion out in May

By Liam Dawe,
Arcen Games have released another post-release massive free update for all players, along with a new expansion announcement for their grand-strategy RTS.

Eagre Games developer of surreal adventure ZED closes down

By Liam Dawe,
ZED, a completely surreal first-person walking-sim adventure released back in 2019 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Sadly it seems it didn't do well overall.

Metro Exodus from 4A and Deep Silver has officially released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
While it was playable with the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, 4A Games and Deep Silver have today officially released Metro Exodus for Linux.

NVIDIA 465.24.02 stable driver rolls out for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Get ready to upgrade your NVIDIA drivers once again, as NVIDIA has today rolled out the 465.24.02 stable driver.

Relaxed narrative-adventure about a struggling writer Forgotten Fields is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Forgotten Fields from Frostwood Interactive and Dino Digital, a casual and quite relaxing adventure about a struggling writer is out now with Linux support.

Shell Shuffle offers a different take on tile-matching from the dev of The Caribbean Sail

By Liam Dawe,
Victorian Clambake, developer of the clever The Caribbean Sail has recently released Shell Shuffle into Early Access. A tile-matching puzzle game that does things a little differently.

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion improves further in the open source re-implementation OpenLoco

By Liam Dawe,
OpenLoco continues advancing and bringing Chris Sawyer's Locomotion another step further to being as great as OpenTTD for Transport Tycoon Deluxe with a new OpenLoco 21.04 release out now.

Free Game Wednesday: take a look at the great twin-stick Cecconoid

By Liam Dawe,
Cecconoid, a fantastic twin-stick shooter with small cramped environments where the screen flicks between each section actually released the source code and now you can play free.

Klabater drops Linux and macOS support for Crossroads Inn

By Liam Dawe,
Crossroads Inn and later Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition from developer Klabater was crowdfunded in March 2019 and later released in October 2019 and now Klabater are leaving Linux and macOS behind.

Spirit Swap is an incredible looking narrative-driven match-3 with seriously good beats

By Liam Dawe,
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (the actual full title - what a mouthful!) is an upcoming action-puzzle game set in a lush, narrative-driven world of witchy demons.

Time-looping narrative adventure Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is out now

By Liam Dawe,
From Devespresso Games, the team behind The Coma series and Vambrace: Cold Soul plus publisher Headup, Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is their latest game out now.

System76 announce COSMIC, their own GNOME-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS

By Liam Dawe,
Pop!_OS from Linux hardware vendor System76 is set to get a massive upgrade when Pop!_OS 21.04 releases, as they've announced COSMIC - their very own desktop environment.

Across the Obelisk is an engrossing new deck-builder with online co-op

By Liam Dawe,
You've played Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons and many other great deck-builder but now it's time for Across the Obelisk to shine and it's rather engrossing.

Flock of Dogs will have you and friends soar through the clouds on flying dogs and a whale

By Liam Dawe,
Yes this is a real game and yes it sounds hilarious. Developer Max Clark has now formally announced Flock of Dogs, a 1 - 8 player online / local co-op experience and I'm a little bit in love with the premise and style.

Commandos 2 - HD Remaster has been released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Raylight Games / Yippee! Entertainment and Kalypso Media have today announced the release of Commandos 2 - HD Remaster for Linux after waiting over a year since the original release.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 455.50.12 rolls out with new Vulkan Video extensions

By Liam Dawe,
As expected, NVIDIA continue to be at the forefront of new and improved Vulkan support as they've today rolled out the 455.50.12 Vulkan Beta Driver.