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Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse Part 1 will arrive on Steam this Summer

By Liam Dawe,
Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse, the crowdfunded dark comedy adventure is now going to have the first part released on Steam this Summer.

X4: Split Vendetta expansion and a huge free 3.0 update announced for release on March 31

By Liam Dawe,
Get your space legs ready for X4: Foundations to expand into a much bigger game. Egosoft have now announced the X4: Split Vendetta expansion and a huge free 3.0 update will release on March 31.

Albion Online getting a new focus on Solo and small-group play in the next updates

By Liam Dawe,
Albion Online is getting a few more systems overhauled in the next few updates, plus some welcome changes and additions for Solo players and small groups.

BStone, a source port for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike adds a new OpenGL renderer

By Liam Dawe,
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike, two classics from the 90s have been revived thanks to the BStone open source game engine that continue seeing big updates.

OBS Studio 25.0 is out with lots of new features for video creators

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source video livestreaming and capture software, OBS Studio, has a brand new release now available with lots of new goodies to play with.

The Division 2 live on Stadia, DOOM Eternal this week and more

By Liam Dawe,
Stadia now has more games available with the release of The Division 2 and the latest expansion, plus DOOM Eternal arrives on it this week. A quick look round-up of Stadia game streaming news.

Unity 2020.1 beta is out and they're offering a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU for bug reports

By Liam Dawe,
The Unity team have put out the first Beta for Unity 2020.1 which will form the first of two "TECH stream" releases for this year.

If you need an escape from reality there's some unique experiences free on itch.io right now

By Liam Dawe,
Need a warm cup of escapism? I sure do, and thankfully a good bunch of indie developers have decided to let people claim their games entirely free for a while.

Super stylish action-adventure 'Resolutiion' now has a demo open for everyone to try

By Liam Dawe,
Resolutiion from Monolith of Minds has serious style, and I was genuinely very impressed by the special press demo. Now you can too, as Monolith have opened it up for everyone.

Ray Tracing comes to the Vulkan API officially with new extensions - new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta out

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.

Brain-teasing puzzle game 'The Last Cube' looks sleek in the latest footage

By Liam Dawe,
The Last Cube from Improx Games is an upcoming 3D puzzle game and while the original trail piqued my interest, seeing actual gameplay has solidified my need to play it.

Sweet puzzle game 'Pipe Push Paradise' is free to claim for a week over on itch

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to hunt around for special deals to help anyone during the Coronavirus, the next up is the puzzle game Pipe Push Paradise which you can claim free for the next week.

Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition announced for release on March 24

By Liam Dawe,
1C Entertainment and Snowhound Games have announced that Deep Sky Derelicts is getting a Definitive Edition on March 24 that will bundle the DLC and upgrade the base game for everyone.

Vaporum: Lockdown delayed into later this year as the game has grown

By Liam Dawe,
Vaporum: Lockdown is a prequel to the 3D real-time dungeon crawler Vaporum that was pretty great, and it's now delayed but it's not all bad news.

Deep fantasy RPG-strategy hybrid 'Vagrus - The Riven Realms' has hit another funding milestone

By Liam Dawe,
Vagrus - The Riven Realms continues smashing through their Open Access funding goals on Fig, this special hybrid of Crowdfunding and Early Access together seems to be paying off.

Stellaris: Federations and the huge free 'Verne' content update are out

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio have today released the Stellaris: Federations expansion along with the free 2.6.0 'Verne' content upate for everyone.

Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is like a wild sci-fi Desert Strike

By Liam Dawe,
Desert Strike, oh hell yes, that's a game I put tons of hours into on the Sega Mega Drive. Now Pizza Bear Games have taken that same helicopter action and put a wild sci-fi spin on it with Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess.

The GOG Spring Sale is on - giving away the 'Witcher Goodies Collection' for 48 hours

By Liam Dawe,
DRM-free store GOG has launched a huge Spring Sale with thousand of games going real cheap. They've also put the Witcher Goodies Collection on a 48 hour giveaway which has art, books, soundtracks and such.

3dSen NES emulator gives classics some 3D depth and it's pretty awesome

By Liam Dawe,
3dSen, an upcoming Emulator currently in development is now going through some Beta testing. Unlike some other Emulators, it doesn't just support old games, it aims to redefine them.

Proton GE 5.4 released for Steam Play on Linux with Warframe gamepad fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE, the custom-built fork of Proton for Steam Play that adds in numerous extra tweaks and fixes has another release now available.