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DOOM Eternal coming to Stadia on March 20, plus other Stadia news - a round-up

By Liam Dawe,
Time for another little roundup of what's going on with Google Stadia lately. First up, let's talk about games.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-12 is out

By Liam Dawe,
The first Steam Play Proton release of 2020 is now available with 4.11-12 which is mainly a cleanup.

Slay the Spire patch 2.0 is out, bringing in The Watcher as the fourth character

By Liam Dawe,
As if I needed more reasons to dive into the Spire once again, Slay the Spire 2.0 is out which brings quite a lot of changes in addition to the fourth character.

The Humble Sweet Farm Bundle is live with some lovely Linux games

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Bundle have just put up The Humble Sweet Farm Bundle and there's multiple lovely Linux games included.

ShotX Studio got a big boost to sales by releasing a free torrent of Danger Gazers

By Liam Dawe,
This is certainly an unusual way to get a little extra support for your game. ShotX Studio, an indie outfit of just developer Shota Bobokhidze who recently released the rather good Danger Gazers put it up in a torrent.

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo arcade shooter released

By Liam Dawe,
Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a long name and this is supposed to be the expanded edition of the 2019 release, giving additional arcade-style shoot 'em up action.

Korean survival horror-adventure 'The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters' leaving Early Access this month

By Liam Dawe,
Atmospheric, story-driven Korean survival horror-adventure from Devespresso Games and Headup 'The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters' is just about ready, with a full release announced for January 28.

Grand space strategy game AI War 2 had a massive update so big it's 'almost a sequel'

By Liam Dawe,
Arcen Games sound quite proud of how big the latest update to AI War 2 is, saying it's "Almost a sequel in how much it adds to the core game mechanics and AI.".

Silly physics sandbox Garry's Mod is getting some big upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Garry's Mod is a game about screwing around, playing with physics and possibly creating your own fun game and it's about to get some big upgrades.

Upcoming point and clicker 'Born Punk' has a Steam page up, coming to GOG and newer trailer

By Liam Dawe,
I do love a good bit of Cyberpunk, I also love the point and click genre getting a resurgence in recent years and Born Punk really does look and sound great.

Enjoy this peaceful 4 hour long trailer for THE LONGING, a game that takes 400 days to beat

By Liam Dawe,
A curious one this, a game that has a clock that counts down from 400 days as soon as you start it and you don't even need to play it to get to the ending, as time continues when you're not playing.

Feral Interactive are asking what you want ported to Linux again

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive, the porting studio behind a lot of great games available on Linux are asking for some feedback again on where they should go next.

Fantastic RTS 'Tooth and Tail' now lets you adjust campaign difficulty plus big sale

By Liam Dawe,
Tooth and Tail, a brilliant real-time strategy game released back in 2017 from Pocketwatch Games continues seeing upgrades to make it appeal to even more people.

Chronicon, the excellent action-RPG now has much better gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Chronicon is an Early Access action-RPG with a feel and atmosphere like the classic Diablo, I absolutely love it and it's now much better with gamepads.

Upcoming eco tycoon sim 'Among Ripples: Shallow Waters' has a demo out

By Liam Dawe,
Help maintain a delicate ecosystem in Among Ripples: Shallow Waters, an in-development eco tycoon sim with a focus on lakes and rivers.

Upcoming supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' development sounds good

By Liam Dawe,
While it doesn't yet have a release date, it does sound like development on the upcoming supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' is going well.

If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii

By Liam Dawe,
Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.

Multiplayer economic strategy game 'Trains & Things' releasing this month

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development by bitshift in Godot Engine, Trains & Things is a multiplayer economic real-time strategy game.

Physics-based platformer LAZR has a very impressive new demo out

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development by Garrick Campsey and being made with the cross-platform MonoGame, LAZR has to be one of the most unique platformers I've seen in some time with some very fun cloth simulation going on and a big new demo is out.

CodeWeavers still looking to hire more Graphics Developers

By Liam Dawe,
Do you have strong C language skills and good experience with OpenGL, DirectX and Vulkan? CodeWeavers are still looking to hire Graphics Developers.