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Fantasy grand strategy city-builder Songs of Syx is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
As one of the most promising indie games this year, Songs of Syx has properly entered Early Access on Steam so you can try your hand at city-building with a grand strategy theme.

Valve rolls out News Channels onto Steam to follow your favourite curators - like us!

By Liam Dawe,
Over time Steam continues to grow as much more than just a games store, and Valve are showing how today with their next Steam Labs experiment to let you get your news.

Go on an epic quest as a not-so-average clown trying to find their dog in Ayo the Clown

By Liam Dawe,
Ayo the Clown is an upcoming adventure platformer from developer Cloud M1, it should be releasing this year and it looks so full of charm it could pop like a balloon at any moment.

Explore a nightmarish world of twisted religion in Blasphemous - now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Game Kitchen and Team17 have now delivered on their promise of official Linux (and macOS) support for Blasphemous as it's now available.

First person dungeon-crawler 'Delver' properly open source again, pulls in lots of updates

By Liam Dawe,
After only recently being released on itch.io, it seems the team behind the chunky-pixel first-person dungeon crawler Delver aren't done.

Bevy seems like an impressive upcoming free and open source game engine made with Rust

By Liam Dawe,
Feeling a little rusty? After a new game engine for your next game development project? Have a look at Bevy, a cross-platform and open source data-driven game engine built in Rust.

A little hacking on a Monday morning? Why not with the online sim Grey Hack

By Liam Dawe,
Feel like letting off some steam and do a little hacking? How about in a safe environment that also happens to be a game where everyone is trying to do it? Grey Hack sounds amusing.

Arachnowopunk is a single-button infinite-runner mini-metroidvania

By Liam Dawe,
Benny Heller, developer of Arachnowopunk emailed in to show off their new single-button infinite-runner mini-metroidvania and it's quite sweet.

Dive into cyberspace this weekend with the latest Black Ice upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
After finishing the first act of Black Ice story, this cyberpunk FPS continues getting content expansions and some of it sounds hilarious.

Give tiny countries a resource transport network in the upcoming Mini Countries

By Liam Dawe,
Mini Countries from Yheeky Games looks like a fresh take on the transport-network puzzle strategy system.

Atmospheric fantasy turn-based RPG Colmen's Quest is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Not long after we only just discovered it, the fantasy turn-based RPG Colmen's Quest is now considered finished and released and it also has an updated demo.

The Hotline Miami series is launching on Stadia soon, WWE 2K Battlegrounds out now

By Liam Dawe,
Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number are the next set of games to be announced for Google's game streaming service Stadia.

Faraway: Director's Cut getting a launch delay to be 'bigger and better'

By Liam Dawe,
Faraway: Director's Cut, the upcoming PC release of the very popular mobile game was originally due next week but they're no longer setting a date.

Comedy point and click adventure Plot of the Druid to get a demo in October

By Liam Dawe,
Plot of the Druid is an upcoming fantasy comedy point and click adventure, it's coming with Linux support and they're going to be putting out a demo on October 15.

Want to play Soldat 2? We have some copies to give away

By Liam Dawe,
The classic side-scrolling multiplayer action platformer shall return in Soldat 2 on September 22, so we've teamed up with Transhuman Design to offer a few copies to GOL readers.

Northgard hits 2 million copies sold, Clan of the Lynx DLC is out now

By Liam Dawe,
After recently announcing an impressive 2 million copies sold milestone, Shiro Games have released the Clan of the Lynx DLC for their strategy game Northgard.

Watch the ACO shader compiler and Vulkan Ray Tracing talks from XDC 2020

By Liam Dawe,
With XDC 2020 (X.Org Developers Conference) in full swing, we've been going over the various presentations to gather some interesting bits for you. Here's more on the ACO shader compiler and Vulkan Ray Tracing.

The first Life is Strange 2 episode is now permanently free

By Liam Dawe,
Have you been on the fence about picking up Life is Strange 2? Well, now you have a much better chance to take a look at it.

KDE Plasma 5.20 Beta is out and it's huge

By Liam Dawe,
While GNOME recently had their own big release, the KDE team aren't far behind for showing off their latest modern Linux desktop environment with Plasma 5.20 Beta.

C-Dogs SDL, the classic run and gun game has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
C-Dogs SDL is something of a classic. A free and open source overhead run-and-gun game that continues being updated and a fresh release is out now.