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Orangepixel has announced Residual, a survival platformer exploration adventure with no combat

By Liam Dawe,
No combat? In a survival styled game? Well that's a bit unusual. Orangepixel who created games like Space Grunts, Heroes of Loot, Gunslugs and more has announced Residual.

Kingdom Two Crowns grows bigger with a free Dead Lands expansion out now

By Liam Dawe,
Kingdom Two Crowns has a bit of a crossover going over, with the Dead Lands expansion out now across all platforms and it's free for everyone too.

Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too

By Liam Dawe,
VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.

AMD's Q1 2020 financial report out - RDNA 2 and Zen 3 on track for this year

By Liam Dawe,
AMD recently released a fresh financial report and while they have strong growth year-over-year, things are looking a bit more tough overall.

Hell Can Wait is an upcoming bullet-hell deck-builder that sounds insane

By Liam Dawe,
Hell Can Wait will be fusing together a bullet hell with a deck-builder, in development by Triplevision Games Limited and planned to release next year.

Google confirm EA games coming to Stadia, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds out now and free for Pro

By Liam Dawe,
Today Google did a new Stadia Connect video for their gaming service, which was pre-recorded due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation. Google confirmed a bunch more games coming including from EA, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is out now and more.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 up for testing with a Release Candidate - Street Fighter V playable

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and CodeWeavers continuing the long task of improving the Proton compatibility layer (based on Wine) for Steam Play, and today a new Release Candidate went up for some testing.

Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released

By Liam Dawe,
The Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, Fedora, has a brand new release today with Fedora 32 showing off some of the latest of what open source has to offer.

Amazingly stylish fast-paced action-adventure 'Resolutiion' confirmed for GOG with a demo up

By Liam Dawe,
Resolutiion, the Hyper Light Drifter-like from developer Monolith of Minds is getting ever closer to release and now it's confirmed to be launching on GOG and a demo is up too.

Ufflegrim is a peculiar deck-builder where you summon creatures and combine them

By Liam Dawe,
Ufflegrim is yet another game to add a card-based deck-building element to it and it does so with a traditional roguelike. Very strange and yet I love it.

Underwater chaos simulator 'Barotrauma' adds wrecked submarines to explore

By Liam Dawe,
Another huge update for Barotrauma, a co-op game about alien ocean exploration in a submarine. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, obviously, and now there's wreckage to find and explore too.

Brave your fears again as the deck-builder 'Iris and the Giant' has a big post-release content update

By Liam Dawe,
Iris and the Giant was a genuine surprise when it launched in early March, a roguelike deck-builder with a nice narrative twist and a fun tactical battles. Now it has a big update out.

Free first-person shooter 'Tomatenquark' releasing soon based on Cube 2: Sauerbraten

By Liam Dawe,
Coming soon to Steam Early Access, Tomatenquark is another attempt to revive a classic free and open source first-person shooter.

Competitive platformer 'Jumpala' adds a single-player mode, price rising soon as it heads to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Jumpala, a very unique and super-fun take on a competitive platformer that's captured my heart continues getting bigger and a fresh update is out with a new mode.

Colourful action-adventure 'Sparklite' is in need of Linux Beta testers

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we wrote about how Red Blue Games were planning to bring Sparklite to Linux, now they're looking to expand their testing and you can get involved.

Free to play competitive deck-builder 'DragonEvo' now on itch.io and it had a big revamp

By Liam Dawe,
As far as turn-based card battlers go, DragonEvo was quite promising when I tried it out recently and now it looks even better with a big update and a release on itch.io.

Slick roguelike 'Jupiter Hell' has a huge update out with Master Traits, new weapons and more

By Liam Dawe,
It's a great day to be a roguelike fan, as the impressive Jupiter Hell (which uses Vulkan!) has a brand new release out and it continues to be stupidly fun.

Mixing real-time battles with turn-based strategy, Total War: SHOGUN 2 is FREE right now

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is now FREE to grab until May 1st on Steam. This is not a free week or weekend, this is your chance to grab an entirely free copy of the game.

Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe,
While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.

Filament is out now and might be my favourite puzzle game of 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Filament, a stylish narrative puzzle game set aboard a seemingly abandoned spaceship has officially released along with Linux support from Beard Envy and Kasedo Games.