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Open world monster-fusing RPG 'Cassette Beasts' will put a new spin on Pokemon

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2020

Cassette Beasts has just been announced by Bytten Studio, that will see you in an open world adventure where you transform with monsters. It's the same team behind Lenna's Inception and we also have some fun news on how that sold on Linux.

If you feel the need to take down capitalism then Tonight We Riot is out now

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2020

Out with same-day Linux support, Tonight We Riot is a game all about rising up with the masses to take down those greedy suits sucking up all the money and joy.

xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2020

Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.

Valve adds a 'Play Next' shelf in Steam to remind you of all those games you've never played

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2020

If you've ever been stuck for something to play on Steam, Valve have made a small step towards reminding you of games you own that you've not actually played.

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Hadean Tactics adds deck-building to an auto-battler that takes you through the underworld

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2020

Emberfish Games recently announced Hadean Tactics, a deck-builder with auto-battling that will be coming to Linux when it enters Early Access later this Summer.

Soldak Entertainment formally announce Drox Operative 2, a starship action RPG

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2020

Drox Operative 2 from Soldak Entertainment has now been officially announced, and they have already confirmed that it will be continuing to support Linux.

Jotun: Valhalla Edition, Sundered: Eldritch Edition and CHORUS heading to Stadia

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2020

More great news for Stadia fans using Linux, as even more games will be coming to the Linux-powered game streaming platform that have been announced.

Chroma: Bloom And Blight is an ambitious upcoming competitive card game - on Kickstarter and demo up

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Chroma: Bloom And Blight was quite a surprise to be told about today, a very ambitious upcoming competitive card game that will have full Linux support.

Awesome looking adventure 'BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION' should now look great on AMD & Intel GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION the latest game from THE BROTHERHOOD (CAYNE / STASIS), has been updated for Linux and it now appears to work great across AMD and Intel GPUs with the open source Mesa drivers.

Slavic fantasy exploration adventure 'The End of the Sun' is up on Kickstarter now

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Time travelling slavic fantasy adventure, The End of the Sun, is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter and they plan to have full Linux support.

Channelling inspiration from Zelda, the open-world 'Adventure In Aellion' launches on July 22

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Adventure In Aellion is an upcoming drop-in / drop-out co-op adventure game, which the developers claim 'evokes the spirit of Legend of Zelda'.

Castle Game Engine looking to improve gamepad support thanks to SDL2

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Castle Game Engine might not be as well known as other free and open source game engines, however it does look rather useful and the developers continue to pull in improvements.

The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.

RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.

Bullet Express seems like an amusing upcoming 2D action-RPG loot shooter you can try now

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

LazyGemsGames are working on Bullet Express, a new 2D action-RPG shooter where you level up and merge guns together to create their ultimate form.

According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.

Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2020

While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.