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Be the captain in a stylish Naval adventure with 'Abandon Ship' now up on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Abandon Ship focuses on 'Age of Sail' ships in a Fantasy setting, with an art style inspired by classic Naval Oil Paintings and it is awesome when in motion.

Battle through a dying Earth in the FPS 'Core Decay' - Steam page now up

By Liam Dawe,
Core Decay is one of those incredible looking retro-inspired shooters we covered recently, and it's now listed on Steam for you to go give it a wishlist.

What have you been playing recently and what are your thoughts?

By Liam Dawe,
It's Sunday, it's a lazy day for some and plenty of you are probably playing through your backlog of games - so what have you been playing and what do you think about it?

AMD just recently had a 'Take A Way' security issue for their CPUs disclosed

By Liam Dawe,
Thought Intel was the only one? Well you would be living under a rock with all the past issues but Intel seemed to be constantly hit harder, and they had another recently. This time, it's AMD's turn in the security spotlight.

Freeablo, a modern cross-platform open source game engine for the original Diablo

By Liam Dawe,
Diablo is a classic and it can live on forever thanks to open source. Freeablo is a cross-platform free and open source game engine and it just had a massive update.

Soul Saga, an Early Access 'JRPG-rogue-lite hybrid' is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Soul Saga is yet another crowdfunded game, and Disastercake has now made it available on Linux not long after launching in Early Access.

Build a legendary deck of magical cards in 'Dungeon Drafters' - confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Dungeon Drafters is a deck-builder that's also a rogue-lite dungeon crawler, with cute graphics and action that looks seriously sweet.

2D isometric adventure 'BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION' now has a Linux Beta available

By Liam Dawe,
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION recently released from The Brotherhood and it does look quite amazing. As promised, they're going to support Linux and a Beta is up now.

A new Humble Choice month is up with AI War II, Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Turok and more

By Liam Dawe,
Another month, another fresh curated selection of games you can grab from Humble Choice and it looks like quite a nice selection for March.

Ambitious Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now officially available and it's a beauty

By Liam Dawe,
Black Mesa, the Valve approved Half-Life remake from Crowbar Collective leaves Early Access with a much more modern take on the classic first-person shooter.

As Cities: Skylines comes up to the five year mark, it's on a big sale

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order are celebrating Cities: Skylines, as it's coming up for the five year mark since it took the city-building world by storm.

Solarus is a free and open source cross-platform game engine for 2D action-RPGs

By Liam Dawe,
Today thanks to a game developer, I was made aware of Solarus. It's a cross-platform free and open source game engine, that's designed for people making 2D action-RPGs.

Oxygen Not Included has another big free update out with Banhi's Automation Innovation Pack

By Liam Dawe,
Oxygen Not Included continues getting bigger, with the free Banhi's Automation Innovation Pack update out now.

Frictional Games have now formally announced Amnesia: Rebirth, their next horror

By Liam Dawe,
Amnesia: Rebirth is the newly announced title from the horror masters at Frictional Games, after teasing it for a few months we finally know what it is.

Intel chipsets have another security issue, this time it's 'unfixable'

By Liam Dawe,
Researchers have uncovered a fun new vulnerability in Intel processors, and this one has a claim attached that it's not possible to fix it.

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, a tactical RPG is funded and on the way to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint from Trese Brothers, a tactical RPG set in the neon-soaked future of 2231 is now funded on Kickstarter and on the way to Linux.

AMD next-gen Zen 3 due this year, Zen 4 will be 5nm and new RDNA 2-based GPUs coming

By Liam Dawe,
The last few years have shown what competition can really do. AMD went from being constantly bottom, to truly kicking some ass with the Zen processor design and they have more to come.

Dandara gets a big free update with the Trials of Fear Edition

By Liam Dawe,
Dandara was quite a surprise, a metroidvania platformer with a gravity-defying movement mechanic that entirely changed you how play and it just got a big update with the Trials of Fear Edition.

Valve's latest Steam Labs experiment aims to unify game news and events

By Liam Dawe,
Finally, Valve are looking to update their updates and news feed for the many tens of thousands of games on Steam with a brand new Steam Labs experiment.

Google rolls out 4K Stadia streaming on the web, plus Relicta and The Turing Test coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
Stadia is finally starting to fulfil some of the marketing Google had surrounding it before launch with new features rolling out to their Linux-powered game streaming service. Time for another Stadia round-up.