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Turns out The Butcher's Circus expansion for Darkest Dungeon will be FREE - plus more details

By Liam Dawe,
Earlier this month we reported on Darkest Dungeon getting a new online PvP DLC named The Butcher’s Circus, well it turns out it's going to be free and they've given more details.

Linux distribution 'Pop!_OS' has a Beta release for the upcoming 20.04 with automatic window tiling

By Liam Dawe,
Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution based on Ubuntu from the folks at System76 is also getting in on the fun with a Beta release of the upcoming Pop!_OS 20.04.

Game Boy Color inspired Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die to enter Early Access on May 29

By Liam Dawe,
Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die, a retro non-linear dungeon crawler that was funded on Kickstarter back in October 2017 is finally about to release.

Total War: WARHAMMER II and Northgard free weekend, Overcooked! 2 has DLC free to keep

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like even more games are letting you play free across this weekend and there's plenty of fun to be had for everyone with Linux as their favourite system.

Humble Store giving away 'Manual Samuel' for FREE over the next few days

By Liam Dawe,
Manual Samuel, a classic adventure game with a wild twist, is currently being given away FREE on the Humble Store.

Merging elements from XCOM and HOMM 'Fort Triumph' is out now - some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Fort Triumph from CookieByte Entertainment and All in! Games is out today, after a while in Early Access this turn-based strategy game combines XCOM with HOMM with some environmental interactions too.

Epic space drone constructor 'Nimbatus' to leave Early Access on May 14 - new update out too

By Liam Dawe,
Nimbatus, a game about space exploration, science and creativity with a whole lot of spacecraft/drone creation is set to leave Early Access on May 14.

Area 86 is a challenging and amusing physics-based escape room puzzler out now

By Liam Dawe,
Area 86 takes the idea of an escape room game, adds a bunch of physics interactions with an unwieldy little robot as the protagonist and gives you a pretty good time for your monies.

Open-world vehicle building adventure 'TerraTech' free to play until April 21

By Liam Dawe,
British indie team Payload Studios have put their Linux game, TerraTech, up on a long Steam Free Weekend so you can download and play for free now until April 21.

KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
Stick a fork in it! KDE's window manager KWin officially has a full fork with a new project called KWinFT, with an aim to support modern development practices and further expand Wayland support.

Top-down content-filled 2D racer 'Ultimate Racing 2D' now has Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Applimazing has announced that their 2D racer, Ultimate Racing 2D, has added Linux support.

Challenging turn-based open world RPG 'Stoneshard' has a huge update

By Liam Dawe,
After an impressive free Prologue and a successful Early Access launch, Stoneshard just received it's first major update named "Trollslayer" with a ton of new content.

F1 2020 announced for release on July 10 with Google Stadia support

By Liam Dawe,
While we don't yet know if the F1 series will make a return to the Linux desktop, it's at least confirmed that the new F1 2020 will be released on Google Stadia so you can stream it.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.

Logistics sim 'STATIONflow' has you direct thousands of passengers across complex 3D layouts

By Liam Dawe,
Out today is STATIONflow, a 3D logistics puzzle simulation game that has you manage a busy metro station with thousands of passengers passing through.

Promising spaceship colony sim 'Space Haven' Alpha 7 out with a Sandbox Mode, Early Access this year

By Liam Dawe,
Bugbyte continue expanding their in-development spaceship colony sim, Space Haven, with a huge new Alpha release available.

Set in a sinister, slowly decomposing land the action-RPG 'Crumbling World' has a demo out

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing later this year on May 21, Crumbling World definitely has a curious setting. An action-RPG where the world is just falling apart and decomposing around you.

Selfless Heroes, a sweet programming-puzzle game where you help heroes in a dungeon - with source code available

By Liam Dawe,
A wonderful little programming-puzzle game here with Selfless Heroes, tasking you with helping heroes travel through a dungeon and avoid dangers.

The AI generated text adventure 'AI Dungeon' can now be played online with others

By Liam Dawe,
AI Dungeon is absolutely fascinating. Every single adventure is different, as it's all powered by a fancy AI and now you and friends can join up for an adventure you're never going to forget.

Linux game manager 'Lutris' has a sweet new build up - better Wine support, new DXVK handling

By Liam Dawe,
Lutris is probably in my top 5 of free and open source Linux apps, as it's made gaming outside of Steam many times easier on Linux.