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The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over - here's the winners

By Liam Dawe,
The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit a new all-time high player-count

By Liam Dawe,
Even though it's been around since 2012, the popularity of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive continues as it today hit a new all-time high for players online.

Mess with everything in the physics sim 'Universe Sandbox' now DRM-free on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Originally Universe Sandbox 2, Giant Army has since stopped selling the original and the 2 was wiped from the name. A massive space simulation game about screwing with physics, creating and destroying.

UnderMine gains a female peasant and tons of new content in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
Action, adventuring, dungeon exploration like found in The Binding of Isaac and a sprinkle of RPG mechanics makes UnderMine a lot of fun to go back to and a huge update is out.

Served! - an amusing looking top-down racer with a culinary theme

By Liam Dawe,
Enter the world of waiting tables, only this time it's a racing game. Served! is coming to Linux from developer Chromatic Room later this month.

Colourful action RPG with a satirical twist 'Underhero' lands on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Yesterday, a new Humble Choice bundle went up and when looking over what games were supported on Linux it turns out that Underhero only just that same day released their Linux version.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.

February's Humble Choice is up with a new bunch of good looking games

By Liam Dawe,
Humble's monthly subscription with the Humble Choice has a fresh set of games up ready for February.

As AMD launch the monster 3990X CPU, System76 offer it up with their stylish Thelio Major

By Liam Dawe,
Today, AMD officially made the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X available as a seriously high-end desktop processor. Along with that, System76 jumped in right away to give it as an option on their powerful Thelio Major.

Please Follow is another short and very tense psychological horror

By Liam Dawe,
Please Follow from developer somewhat who also made Please (which I certainly enjoyed) recently released another short psychological horror.

Lotus Reverie - a Visual Novel with a slice of turn-based strategy and a game of survival

By Liam Dawe,
Always looking for a Visual Novel to pull me back into the genre with something different, Lotus Reverie ~ First Nexus seems like it has the makings for a good story.

Impressive space sandbox 'Avorion' leaving Early Access on March 9

By Liam Dawe,
Boxelware have officially set a date for their spectacular space sandbox game, Avorion, to leave Early Access.

Road Redemption gets a slightly amusing Revengers Assemble DLC - also has multiple monitor support

By Liam Dawe,
Revengers Assemble! Why does that sound so familiar? I can't think why. Road Redemption, the modern Road Rash-like just gained a big new DLC.

Build massive circuits in 'Logic World' (prev. The Ultimate Nerd Game) releasing in March

By Liam Dawe,
Logic World (previously known at TUNG - The Ultimate Nerd Game), a game about building circuits and making fun machines with them now has a release date.

Valve making steps to address toxic behaviour on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

By Liam Dawe,
One of my all-time favourite first-person shooters, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is about to tell naughty players to sort their attitude out.

Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK has another small release up

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh release of the Direct 3D to Vulkan translation layer, DXVK, was released today which continues their cycle of bug fixing.

Humble Store has some great Linux games on sale right now

By Liam Dawe,
It's coming up to the weekend, so here's a little look at some of the great games you can get for cheaps on Humble Store.

Steam hitting nearly 95 million 'monthly active' users and other Steam news

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are talking a lot more lately, actually telling us what's been going on and what some of their plans are. In their latest blog post, they had plenty to share.

Fast-paced free-moving rogue-lite 'ScourgeBringer' out now and it's damn good

By Liam Dawe,
Flying Oak Games might have done the unthinkable here, they may have dethroned Dead Cells in my heart with ScourgeBringer.

The creator of Pony Island is back with a strange narrative-infused deck-builder 'Inscryption'

By Liam Dawe,
Daniel Mullins Games (Pony Island, The Hex) announced their latest game that's been in development for over a year. It's called Inscryption and it's a narrative focused, card-based deck building roguelike.