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Google's game streaming service Stadia arrives in more countries

By Liam Dawe,
Ahead of the Cyberpunk 2077 release, Google has expanded the list of supported countries for their game streaming service called Stadia.

#AkiRobots is a clever puzzle-platformer where you control multiple robots simultaneously

By Liam Dawe,
Spread across 100 levels that increasingly test your ability to think about movement for multiple characters, #AkiRobots is an absolutely charming puzzle-platformer out now.

Become a powerful Rogue in the latest update to the action-RPG Last Epoch

By Liam Dawe,
This might actually be my favourite class so far in Last Epoch, the impressive time-travelling action RPG.

Deck-building fast-paced battler One Step From Eden gets a huge free expansion update

By Liam Dawe,
Mixing in elements inspired by Mega Man Battle Network along with the popularity of deck-building, One Step From Eden is quite a highlight from earlier 2020 and now it's bigger and better.

Fantastic puzzle game Superliminal now has a level editor in Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Want to build your own crazy dream-world perspective puzzles? Superliminal now has a level editor available in Beta.

Get colourful with the new release of the open source lighting control OpenRGB

By Liam Dawe,
Love your flashy lights, your colourful RBG LEDs covering your computer and your desk? How about controlling them from Linux? OpenRGB is your friend.

Linux hardware vendor ZaReason has officially closed up shop

By Liam Dawe,
Always sad when a Linux-focused business fails. ZaReason announced recently that they're no longer in business.

Beamdog need testers for major updates to Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to move through their library of classic RPGs starting with the first Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, there's now the 2.6 Beta available for Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

The latest Vintage Story update adds in Character Customization and the Steel Age

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to be seriously impressive, the 1.14 update to the deep survival game Vintage Story is officially out now after multiple testing builds.

Take care of the bees in the latest demo of the super sweet APICO

By Liam Dawe,
APICO is a game you absolutely have to try if you love casual farming, building and exploration. It's simply wonderful as you run around collecting and breeding bees to build up an apiary.

Check out the brand new trailer for the RTS 'Liquidation - Echoes of the Past'

By Liam Dawe,
Liquidation - Echoes of the Past is an upcoming tactical fantasy/sci-fi singleplayer and multiplayer real-time strategy game with rpg elements.

The road to Wine 6.0 begins with a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux and other systems has a new development release up, the first Release Candidate for Wine 6.0.

Humble Choice for December has 14 games including Children of Morta & Overcooked 2

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like the monthly Humble Choice bundle for December is a pretty good one, filled full of games and Classic / Premium subs get 14 this time.

DOSBox Staging has a rather large new release out with 0.76.0

By Liam Dawe,
DOSBox Staging is the fork of the original emulator with an aim to modernize it and give it some more advanced features, with the latest release out now.

Raspberry Pi OS has a big new release out switching to PulseAudio

By Liam Dawe,
Time to warm up your little board as the Raspberry Pi OS has a big new releasing up for those of you sticking with the official Debian Linux based system.

Manjaro Linux 20.2 'Nibia' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro Linux, the middle-ground distribution for those who want regular updates but don't want to go to Arch directly has a brand new release out.

Real-time grand strategy fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx arrives on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Songs of Syx, a title currently in development and available as Early Access has now officially arrived on the DRM-free store GOG if that's where you prefer your games.

Smissmas 2020 is live for Team Fortress 2 with new maps

By Liam Dawe,
Along with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seeing it's 10th operation with Operation Broken Fang, Valve's other popular first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 is doing a new Smissmas 2020 event.

Dead Cells has sold over 3.5 million copies, Fatal Falls DLC announced for early 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Evil Empire and Motion Twin have announced that Dead Cells is getting a brand new DLC in early 2021 and it seems they have a lot more coming to Dead Cells.

Unity acquires the open source MLAPI networking library

By Liam Dawe,
Unity Technologies who work on the Unity game engine have announced that they have acquired the networking library MLAPI, along with the creator joining Unity.