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Blending a MOBA with an RTS 'Asteroid Fight' is out now and free to play

By Liam Dawe,
Asteroid Fight had a great idea but little to no marketing and it went unnoticed, now it's left Early Access as a full game and the developer has made it free to play.

Fragile Fighter is an 'unforgiving' dark and emotional story-based platformer now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
With a female protagonist and a dark emotional story, Fragile Fighter definitely has captured my interest.

Valve add a Prestige option to the Dota Underlords 'City Crawl' mode to increase the challenge

By Liam Dawe,
Dota Underlords, the curious blend of Dota lore and characters in an auto-battling strategy game has a brand new update out as it continues to see a healthy amount of players since release.

A newly public patent (filed in 2018) from Valve shows a Steam Controller with attachments

By Liam Dawe,
We have no idea if Valve will ever do a proper second revision of the Steam Controller, we've seen hints before and now we have more info on what it could have been.

Stay at home and go on a text adventure with 'Wanderlust: Transsiberian' out now

By Liam Dawe,
Wanderlust: Transsiberian, just like the previous game Wanderlust: Travel Stories from developer Different Tales is a fresh text-based travelling adventure out now.

How-to: upscale old games on Linux

By dpanter,
Any tool that makes it easier to play older Windows games on Linux deserves some praise, and none more so than Lutris in my book. But...have you tried running a really old game and found that it is hilariously minuscule on your fancy modern HiDPI monitor?

Wine 5.6 is out today with Media Foundation additions, more modules converted to PE format

By Liam Dawe,
It's Friday, and usually every two weeks it means a new Wine development release is bottled up and ready to go. Today we have Wine 5.6 which brings in more of the recent Media Foundation work.

Sci-fi space station building and management sim 'Meeple Station' has released

By Liam Dawe,
Meeple Station, a sci-fi space station building and management sim has left Early Access after two years in development.

The amusing and unique FPS 'Shotgun Farmers' has a fun Easter event going on

By Liam Dawe,
Shotgun Farmers, a first-person shooter where your bullets dig into the ground to grow new guns has a super fun Easter event going on where you all have a great big 'Carrocket Launcher'.

The Procession to Calvary is a brilliantly funny adventure of Renaissance paintings stitched together

By Liam Dawe,
The Procession to Calvary is one of the most unique experiences I've played so far this year, and a brilliantly funny one too. A point and click adventure, made up of Renaissance paintings that have been cut up a stitched together in all sorts of ridiculous ways.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York announced for release this year

By Liam Dawe,
Acting as a standalone expansion to Coteries of New York (you don't need to have played it), Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York has been announced for release this year.

Iratus: Lord of the Dead releasing April 23 - a Linux beta is up ready for testing

By Liam Dawe,
Iratus: Lord of the Dead, a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe that looks fantastic is now due for release on April 23.

Experiment with different ways to assassinate as 'HITMAN' is free to play this weekend

By Liam Dawe,
HITMAN from IO Interactive and the Linux port from Feral Interactive is a great game worth your time and monies, plus you can try the whole game across this weekend for free.

Action RPG 'Hellpoint' has been delayed until sometime in Q2 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Cradle Games announced yesterday that their upcoming action RPG 'Hellpoint', has been delayed and they're not giving it a date now other than before the end of Q2 2020.

GRID (2019) is showing signs of coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
GRID, the 2019 racer from Codemasters is showing some signs that a Linux port may be on the horizon going by some info taken from SteamDB.

Humble Store has a big 'City Builder' sale going with lots of time consuming goodies cheap

By Liam Dawe,
While not all of the games on sale fit directly as a 'city builder', they all at least have you build and manage something. The Humble City Builder Sale is live and there's some great Linux games in it.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - A World Betrayed expansion now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Today, porting studio Feral Interactive have released the Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - A World Betrayed expansion for Linux (and macOS) following the Windows release last month.

Google announces three more games coming to Stadia including Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

By Liam Dawe,
Now that the Linux-powered game streaming service Stadia is open to everyone with two months of Stadia Pro free, Google has announced another three games coming.

The System76 'Lemur Pro' laptop is available now with Coreboot and open source firmware

By Liam Dawe,
System76 have now fully revealed the 'Lemur Pro' laptop, and not only is it powerful and good-looking it's also their most open laptop yet.

Gutwhale is a claustrophobic 'finite roguelite' action game taking place in a digestive system

By Liam Dawe,
Taking place entirely in a digestive system, Gutwhale is a 'finite roguelite' action game about managing your limited ammo in a very cramped space.