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Lair of the Clockwork God blends an adventure game with a platformer - now out on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a brief Beta test, Lair of the Clockwork God which blends gameplay between a point and click adventure with a platform from Size Five Games is now officially available on Linux.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Shattered Web will end on March 30

By Liam Dawe,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gained a lot of new stuff for Operation Shattered Web, including the Battle Pass system and it's all coming to an end this month.

A new Steam Client Beta is up, fixing some annoyances for Linux users

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released a fresh update to Steam for those of you testing out the Beta, and with it comes some fixes for annoyances.

OpenRA for classic Red Alert and Command & Conquer has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe,
Dune 2000, Red Alert, Command & Conquer - all classics and all playable on Linux with the cross-platform open source OpenRA.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary single-player works fine on Linux with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary on Linux? Yes. It just today released on Steam, and thanks to Proton with Steam Play you can play this first-person shooter on Linux easily.

Tabletop style tactical RPG 'Wildermyth' has a whole new campaign out in the last update

By Liam Dawe,
Wildermyth stole my heart a little, a tactical RPG with a beautifully designed Papercraft world and plenty of character development. It's going to steal more of my time now too with a whole new campaign out now.

Europa Universalis IV: Emperor expansion announced for release this year

By Liam Dawe,
Europa Universalis IV: Emperor expansion announced today by Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive with a focus on the Holy Roman Empire, Catholicism and the internal management of your kingdom.

As Puppygames reflect on the release of Basingstoke, they say it financially ruined them

By Liam Dawe,
Basingstoke released back in 2018 and in my opinion, it was a damn fun game that really got my blood flowing. Sadly, it went quite under the radar and it seems it pretty much ruined Puppygames.

Mainframe Defenders is a retro-themed tactical squad-based strategy game out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mainframe Defenders combines a supremely cool retro 80s terminal inspired graphical style, with squad building and tactical turn-based battles.

Theyest Thou will have you throwing guns around with telekinesis

By Liam Dawe,
Theyest Thou is a fun idea for a top-down shooter, while quite simplistic it offers a fun game mechanic to mix things up a little with your telekinesis.

RimWorld's Royalty expansion a 'great success' - more is coming to the game and now on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Ludeon Studios recently did a surprise Royalty expansion release for RimWorld with the recent patch and it seems it's doing so well that they're going to do more. RimWorld is also now available on GOG.com.

OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 is out to further enhance video livestreaming and recording

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio 25.0 RC1 has been released as the first step towards a new stable version, and it comes with some fancy new features for all platforms.

China bans Plague Inc: Evolved as Coronavirus fear spreads

By Liam Dawe,
China hasn't exactly been the easiest market to release games in, for various reasons, and now they've banned Plague Inc: Evolved on Steam.

Explore a mysterious structure in 'Meteorite', a colourful and densely pixelated free short metroidvania FPS

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
Meteorite is a colourful and densely pixelated metroidvania FPS, made in Godot Engine for a Game Jam back in 2018 that's worth a look when you have a few free minutes.

Knightin'+, a Zelda-lite dungeon crawler arrives DRM-free on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Knightin'+ from Muzt Die Studios, a Zelda-lite dungeon crawling adventure has now officially arrived on DRM-free store GOG.com.

BeamNG.drive needs a developer to port it to Linux and other systems

By Liam Dawe,
BeamNG.drive, a very popular and highly rated soft-body physics vehicle simulator looks like it may come to Linux - if they can find a dedicated developer to join their team.

BadLads is an open-world multiplayer RP city sim coming to Linux this year

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by RP (role playing) mods for other games, BadLads from Latvian developer Chemical Heads Studios looks like it could be pretty amusing low-poly version of GTA Online.

Quirky comedy adventure 'The Unholy Society' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Cat-astrophe Games just released The Unholy Society, a comical and quirky adventure game inspired by '80s and '90s movies, comic books and all other "pop-culture" stuff and things.

The upcoming Frictional Games title now has a new teaser - what the heck is going on?

By Liam Dawe,
The currently unnamed upcoming game (likely some form of horror) from Frictional Games now has a new teaser.

Iris and the Giant is a deck-builder about facing your inner demons - out now

By Liam Dawe,
Iris and the Giant is a new release that pulls you into the mind of a young girl, as she fights her inner demons in turn-based battles with card deck-building.