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City-state building sim Songs of Syx is looking good in latest free build to try

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Songs of Syx could be a sleeper hit, currently available as a tech demo for an Early Access releasing coming later this year it's promising to be a pretty huge city-building strategy game with a grand design.

The Good Time Garden is short, free and completely hilarious as it's so freaky

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Searching through the gold mine of bizarre, slightly weird and downright surreal games buried on itch.io I recently came across the free adventure exploration game The Good Time Garden.

Frictional Games (SOMA, Amnesia) begin teasing something new

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Frictional Games, the developer behind some scary games like SOMA, Penumbra and Amnesia seem to have started teasing that a new game is coming.

FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.

Action survival game 'Sipho' where you create a creature opens up the sandbox Aquarium mode

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Sipho is a little favourite of mine to keep an eye on, a game where you create a creature from parts inspired by real-life sea creatures (zooids) and attempt to survive against the many other types.

Portal could have had a prequel called F-STOP/Aperture Camera, as a new documentary shows

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

LunchHouse Software have announced a sort-of documentary focusing on a cancelled Valve game, apparently it was going to be called F-STOP/Aperture Camera and it was a prequel to Portal.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.1 is out with tons of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of the open source gaming space has a fresh new release out with version 1.1.

Steam for Linux was started by ex-Microsoft developers

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

How about we start Monday off with an interesting little titbit? According to a former Valve staffer, Steam for Linux was started up by ex-Microsoft employees.

Slay the Spire's fourth character to be released on January 14

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Slay the Spire, a fantastic deck-builder roguelike that's one of my personal favourites released last year is finally getting the fourth character out.

Grave Days brings fast-paced survival rogue-lite action to the Zombie Apocalypse

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Inspired by the likes of some great games including Streets of Rogue, Death Road to Canada and Project Zomboid we now have Grave Days.

A fourth release candidate is out for Wine 5.0

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

With a full release expected a bit later this month, Wine 5.0 has a fourth release candidate up to get in some last testing.

Police Stories gives you more chances to practice your tactics with custom missions

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Mighty Morgan keep improving their tactical top-down shooter Police Stories, with an update landing last month adding in a Custom Mission mode.

The Humble Choice bundle is up for January with 12 games to pick from

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) has a new set of games up for January and this time there's 12 to pick from.

Some of our most anticipated games for Linux in 2020

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

A new year has arrived, so let's have a quick look over some of the most promising titles to be coming to Linux across 2020. There's plenty to be excited about.

Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Survive the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in Z Dawn, recently released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

One missed from early last month is Z Dawn from GoldenGod Games, a fast-paced turn-based survival strategy game about getting through the zombie apocalypse.

With wireframe-like visuals, the dungeon crawler Der Geisterturm is releasing this month

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Graverobber Foundation are back with another dungeon crawler, after previously releasing Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship they're releasing Der Geisterturm / The Ghost Tower later this month.

My top 5 Linux games released in 2019, those that truly won me over

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

As 2019 is now properly over and done with, it's time to take a quick look back. Here's some thoughts on the Linux games released that sat above the rest.

Looks like EA might be banning Linux gamers using Wine to play Battlefield V

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

A heads up: there's been reports of people being banned by EA and having EA claim their ban will stay, for playing Battlefield V with Wine + DXVK.

Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.