Viewing all the latest news and updates.

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.

Stoneshard has a small equipment patch while they rework the AI and Dungeons

By Liam Dawe,
Ink Stains Games have announced that their Early Access and thoroughly challenging roguelike, Stoneshard, is set to get a huge overhaul to the AI and Dungeon Generation systems.

First-person roguelike RPG 'Barony' has a Steam sale, Free Weekend and an upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Turning Wheel are continuing to upgrade their first-person roguelike RPG 'Barony', with a fresh update available and you can try it free on Steam.

Impressive 2D action-RPG 'Chronicon' leaves Early Access on August 21

By Liam Dawe,
To say I enjoy Chronicon would be quite the understatement, this 2D indie action-RPG has a huge amount of content and it's finally set to leave Early Access.

Care for spirits of the deceased in Spiritfarer, new teaser released plus Stadia confirmed

By Liam Dawe,
Spiritfarer, the upcoming game from Thunder Lotus Games that looks like it deals with death in quite a sweet way as you care for the spirits of the deceased has a new teaser trailer and more release info. This includes Stadia, on top of Linux desktop support.

Underwater suffering simulator Barotrauma gets a much improved campaign mode

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest update to Barotrauma, the alien-world underwater co-op submarine sim (and very much a suffering simulator), the teams at FakeFish and Undertow Games have given it a bit of an overhaul.

The 'living comic book' rogue-lite platformer Fury Unleashed arrives on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
After your next crazy action-platformer fix? Fury Unleashed looks fantastic and it's recently been made available on GOG giving you another choice on your store.

With seamless 2D and 3D camera switching, Neko Ghost, Jump! is funded on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Neko Ghost, Jump! is an upcoming indie platformer with a great twist that allows you to easily switch between 2D and 3D modes whenever you want - and you need to.

Changing your country on Steam has been made harder to battle VPNs

By Liam Dawe,
Something that has been happening for years now, is that people have been switching around their country on Steam and using VPNs to get cheaper prices - Valve looks to have put a stop to it.