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The Humble Store Winter Sale is live, another FREE game is going too

By Liam Dawe,
Another sale, time to pick up some cheap games if you missed some during other big sales last month. This time Humble Store have a big selection up and a free game to grab.

3rd person adventure and town-building game 'Dwarrows' launches in February

By Liam Dawe,
Lithic Entertainment are crafting a 3rd person adventure and town-building game, Dwarrows, which they've now given a release date with same-day Linux support expected.

LUNA The Shadow Dust, the fantastic looking hand-animated adventure has a confirmed launch date

By Liam Dawe,
LUNA The Shadow Dust, developed by Lantern Studio with Application Systems Heidelberg giving them a publishing hand with the Western release have now announced the launch date.

Steam getting expanded support for Soundtracks with a Sale Event on January 20

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have announced that they're going to be giving Soundtracks their own special section on Steam instead of them being a generic DLC listing.

Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome

By Liam Dawe,
When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else so please send help.

NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out, adds a fix for DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA continue advancing their special Vulkan Beta driver, the one that gets all the upcoming features that need a little extra time to brew.

The Last Cube will bring some awesome-looking brain-teasers to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Sometimes I come across a puzzle game that really sucks me in with a fancy trailer, The Last Cube is one such game.

90s collectible card game Doomtrooper is being revived as a PC game, releasing for Linux this Spring

By Liam Dawe,
Originally released in the 90s as a proper real-life game, the CCG (collectible card game) Doomtrooper was revived with a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017.

Up for a retro adventure? The Space Quest II remake is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Space Quest II from Sierra On-Line, originally released back in 1987 not long before I was born, has been revived by Infamous Adventures.

Adventure game creator 'Visionaire Studio' is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Visionaire Studio, quite a popular game engine for creating adventure games is bringing the editor to Linux with the next planned release.

Minigalaxy, the free and open source Linux client for GOG has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Progressing quickly, Minigalaxy is becoming quite a nice streamlined Linux client for managing GOG games since GOG themselves don't yet support Galaxy on Linux.

The final Act of Kentucky Route Zero will release January 28

By Liam Dawe,
Later this month, Kentucky Route Zero will finally be a finished story, seven years after the release of the first part.

Fates of Ort, a fantasy RPG focused on strategic action releases March with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
A retro inspired fantasy RPG with a focus on strategic action? With a story? Fates of Ort looks and sounds like it's going to be very interesting to play.

Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project

By Liam Dawe,
Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.

UnCiv, a free and open source remake of Civilization V

By Liam Dawe,
What do you do when you want to keep the mechanics of a game you love alive? If you're developer Yair Morgenstern, you remake it yourself like they did with UnCiv.

Primal Light looks like a fantastic action platformer coming to Linux, made in Godot

By Liam Dawe,
With a style that reminds me of a game I played on the Amiga (a name I've long forgotten), Primal Light actually looks really good.

Stylish and tough rogue-lite shooter 'Danger Gazers' released

By Liam Dawe,
ShotX Studio (Kontrakt, Riskers) recently released Danger Gazers, a very stylish rogue-lite shooter with a lot to like about it.

Shadow & The Blade DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II is out now for Linux, plus a big new patch

By Liam Dawe,
Today the porting studio Feral Interactive have managed to get The Shadow & The Blade DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II out for the Linux version.

Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.

Quake II RTX updated with a new fancy Photo Mode

By Liam Dawe,
Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA continue advancing Quake II RTX, which seems to be turning into an FPS playground of new features built on the classic game.