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Death Road to Canada gets a major upgrade with more to come

By Liam Dawe,
Face off against large groups of zombies while taking a scenic road trip with Death Road to Canada, which just had a big upgrade and there's more confirmed on the way.

Modern point and click adventure Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit gains a demo

By Liam Dawe,
Until September 18, you can try out a demo for the upcoming modern point and click adventure Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit.

There's a big 'Minecraft Live' event happening on October 3

By Liam Dawe,
Are you a huge Minecraft fan? Get ready for a big load of news to come in as Mojang have announced a new Minecraft Live event happening on October 3.

Get your first look at the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series

By Liam Dawe,
AMD have given us a first look teaser at the upcoming Radeon RX 6000 series powered by their new RDNA 2 architecture, ahead of their upcoming event.

Xfce desktop environment sees a 4.16pre1 release, better fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe,
Lightweight classic desktop environment Xfce continues advancing, with a new pre-release update available for testing pulling in some great features.

Civilization VI's next DLC arrives on September 24, will bring in Byzantium and Gaul

By Liam Dawe,
The next DLC coming to Civilization VI on September 24 sounds like it's going to be quite featured filled. Here's a run down of what to expect.

Bloody Service looks like a unique FMV experience blended with a visual novel

By Liam Dawe,
More FMV goodness? Yes please. Bloody Service mixes in a visual novel with an FMV (full motion video) to bring an intriguing mix that the developer says is a "dark, wild and unsettling love letter to 80’s slashers".

Kind Words, the game about writing nice anonymous letters gets a little sweeter

By Liam Dawe,
2019's Kind Words from Popcannibal is probably one of the sweetest ideas for a game ever made, and with it being a year old the developer went back to give it a bit of an upgrade.

Godot Engine documentation is about to get much better with a new hire

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine is one of the most exciting, most advanced free and open source game engines around and it's improving when looking at all angles.

FOBIA - St. Dinfna Hotel is an upcoming psychological horror - try the demo

By Liam Dawe,
Pulsatrix Studios are working on FOBIA - St. Dinfna Hotel, an upcoming psychological horror and it appears a number of readers are excited about this one.

Albion Online continues pulling in record player counts

By Liam Dawe,
Albion Online is a 'sandbox' style MMO where you pretty much do whatever you please, and it's proving to be quite popular with a healthy growth in players.

Manjaro Linux 20.1 'Mikah' is out now with a theme refresh

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro Linux, the semi-rolling distribution based on Arch Linux has a new stable build release out with Manjaro 20.1 'Mikah'.

Stadia is getting Risk of Rain 2, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Scott Pilgrim and more

By Liam Dawe,
Google have announced multiple new titles are coming to their Linux and Vulkan powered game streaming service, Stadia. This includes some pretty big and popular titles. Time for another Stadia round-up.

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure now has a Linux Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Video game developer Ron Gilbert of Terrible Toybox has now put up an official Linux Beta for Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure.

NVIDIA confirms $40 billion deal to buy Arm

By Liam Dawe,
Huge industry news to mention this morning! NVIDIA has confirmed they're buying Arm for $40 billion.

The weekend chat - what have you been playing?

By Liam Dawe,
The ending of another week is just about here, ready to begin anew. Before Monday comes knocking, it's time for the usual GOL community chat post.

Dino MMO 'Path of Titans' has a new playable demo for PAX Online

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for some dinosaur action? Path of Titans, the hugely successful crowdfunded indie MMO now has a demo you can download and try out.

With PAX Online here, you can try out the demo of zen-puzzler Unpacking

By Liam Dawe,
After a long day hack away at some code, a game about unpacking a bunch of boxes would usually be the last thing I would want. However, Unpacking (the actual game) is genuinely lovely.

Check out the latest demo of the couch party game Unspottable with new levels

By Liam Dawe,
Unspottable is an absolutely fantastic local multiplayer game about picking out your opponents from a crowd.

A new security flaw is revealed with 'BlindSide' on Linux affecting Intel and AMD

By Liam Dawe,
VUSec have published and shown an example of a newly discovered flaw present with both Intel and AMD processors when used with Linux.