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Ecosystem building sim 'Terra Nil' now gives you a whole continent to restore

By Liam Dawe,
A building sim that's as relaxing as it is challenging, Terra Nil has a truly wonderful idea and I absolute love following it along in development with a new big update out now.

The fab physics bridge-builder Poly Bridge 2 gets a huge free content update

By Liam Dawe,
Already finished Poly Bridge 2? Looks like it's time to jump back in as Dry Cactus have just released a huge free content upgrade with lots of new goodies to play with.

Unrailed! is gearing up for launch with a discount before the price goes up

By Liam Dawe,
Unrailed! is an absolutely fantastic co-op game from Indoor Astronaut and Daedalic Entertainment that has you frantically build a train track to keep your train going as far as possible.

xoreos, the FLOSS game engine for titles like Knights of the Old Republic has a new update

By Liam Dawe,
xoreos is an in-development effort to create a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the BioWare Aurora Engine that powers games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Vulkan API gains new extension to aid translation layers

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the Vulkan API 1.2.149 spec update went out and it includes another extension that's aimed at helping translation layers like DXVK.

With less than a month to go there's a new Crusader Kings III dev video

By Liam Dawe,
Going over more features we can expect to see in Crusader Kings III, Paradox Interactive have a new dev video up ahead of the release next month.

Aliens and enemy ships weren't enough for Space Haven so now there's space hazards too

By Liam Dawe,
Space Haven is an Early Access game that blends together elements of FTL, RimWorld and other such building and survival sims to create a promising mix of space exploration and people management.

Summer camp building gets a little supernatural in the upcoming Camp Canyonwood

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from the same team as We Need To Go Deeper, Deli Interactive LLC have announced Camp Canyonwood which looks like it puts a quirky spin on building up a summer camp.

Half-Life: Absolute Zero mimics Half-Life's original vibe, run on Linux with Xash3D FWGS

By BTRE,
The original Half-Life turned out to look and feel rather different than what originally shown before release. This fan project seeks to give players a different experience more inline with that original design.

X4: Foundations update 3.30 arrives with a crew transfer system overhaul

By Liam Dawe,
Egosoft are continuing to improve and expand their detailed space trading, exploration and combat sim X4: Foundations.

Arcane Fortune is a grand strategy empire building game you can play in your terminal

By Liam Dawe,
Newly released is Arcane Fortune, a free game inspired by Civilization and SimCity with their ultimate goal to have the same 'detail and realism as Dwarf Fortress'.

Aloof looks like a wonderful feature-filled upcoming puzzle-battler

By Liam Dawe,
Something of a recent discovery is Aloof, an in-development puzzle-battler somewhat inspired by the likes of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Puyo Puyo Tetris with its own unique take on it.

System76 are teasing their own brand Keyboard again

By Liam Dawe,
System76, the company that provides various Linux hardware along with their own Pop!_OS Linux distribution have started teasing their upcoming Keyboard again.

Looks like the recent upwards trend of the Linux market share has calmed down

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, the NetMarketShare website and the Steam Hardware Survey showed the Linux share was rising but it appears both have now calmed down.

FNA and FAudio get a 20.08 release, with FNA3D and Vulkan getting closer

By Liam Dawe,
Game porter and software developer Ethan Lee announced the 20.08 releases of both of FNA and FAudio, as work continues on the newer FNA3D.

You can now support Wine Staging directly on Patreon

By Liam Dawe,
Wine Staging, the highly experimental area where all the latest (and often not "greatest") code comes in for Wine testing now has a Patreon so you can support it directly.

Quench that weekend thirst with the release of Wine 5.14

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine team today announced the released of Wine 5.14, the next development release on the long road to Wine 6.0.

CS:GO on Linux is actually not launching Trusted Mode by default - quick fix

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like Valve did a bit of a woopsie. With the recent updates to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive they implemented a new anti-cheat tool with Trusted Mode but it appears at some point they forgot to enable it.

Monster Crown has a new adult take on Pokemon and it's now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
With a darker tone, a setting aimed at adults and creatures that might give a few pixelated nightmares, Monster Crown has entered Early Access as a new breed in the genre of monster catching.

Core Defense offers up a different kind of Tower Defense with deck-building

By Liam Dawe,
Core Defense is a Tower Defense game at it's core but it's quite unusual in how it sprinkles in the content and it's out now with full Linux support.