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Swarming RTS Age of Darkness: Final Stand is in Early Access and works great on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is like a fantasy version of They Are Billions, and compared with the latter it runs great on Linux thanks to Steam Play Proton.

Valve banning games that allow exchanging cryptocurrencies or NFTs

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Valve aren't a big fan of cryptocurrencies or NFTs as they've updated their onboarding guide with a new point about disallowing games that allow you to exchange them.

Space sci-fi point and click adventure Warp Frontier releases for Linux in November

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Brawsome emailed to note that their space sci-fi adventure Warp Frontier will be releasing for Linux (and macOS) in November following the Windows release in late September.

Space Crew: Legendary Edition releases as a free expansion on October 21

By Liam Dawe,
Curve Digital and Runner Duck have together announced that Space Crew: Legendary Edition will arrive on October 21 as a free expansion to the base game with a ton of new content.

The surprisingly varied Tower Defense game Warstone TD is now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
With maps that advance and grow as you play through allowing you to place down more towers and change your tactics, Warstone TD from Battlecruiser Games is now available natively on Linux.

The ScummVM retro game project celebrates a 20th anniversary with a new release

By Liam Dawe,
A big celebration to be had for the folks working on ScummVM, the project that bundles together various game engines to allow you to play many older games easily on modern platforms.

Twitch has suffered a huge leak of source code with a possible Steam competitor (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Twitch is not having a good time lately. On top of battling bots engaging in hate-raids spamming chats with horrible things, it appears they've also suffered a massive data breach. UPDATED.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory levels up with a new ET: Legacy release

By Liam Dawe,
Based upon the source code release of the classic multiplayer shooter Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the ET: Legacy project continues maturing on modern platforms with ET: Legacy 2.78 out now.

Steam Next Fest is live again with demos, livestreams and more

By Liam Dawe,
It's that time again! From now until October 7 you get to try out various new demos on Steam, watch developer livestreams and much more.

Cyberpunk speedrunner platformer Aeon Drive is out now starring Kira Buckland

By Liam Dawe,
Developer 2Awesome Studio has released Aeon Drive, a cyberpunk themed platformer with a speedrunning theme.

Another month down, here's a round-up of what was big through September 2021

By Liam Dawe,
September 2021 is officially over and with it a whole lot of news came in. Here's our monthly overview round-up of what was big in case you missed it.

Kalypso Media forms new studio to work on Tropico 7, hiring developers now

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Tropico 7 is now a confirmed thing, with Kalypso Media emailing today an announcement about forming a brand new studio dedicated to the next game.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.3 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
SuperTuxKart, one of the golden oldies when it comes to free and open source gaming has a new release out with SuperTuxKart 1.3 improving lots.

Q1K3 is a homage to Quake made with 13 kb of JavaScript

By Liam Dawe,
Games seem to be getting bigger all the time taking up vast amounts of drive space but what can be done with very little resources? Quite a lot actually as the Quake homage Q1K3 has shown.

New patent from Valve appears for "instant play" of games and more

By Liam Dawe,
Published today is a new patent from Valve that (amongst other things) might allow for an "instant play" feature for games being downloaded from Steam.

DXVK 1.9.2 goes out with improvements to CPU overhead for D3D9

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK, one of the major parts of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan has a new release out and there's plenty of nice fixes.

Get out together in Escape Simulator, a game with 'highly interactive' escape rooms

By Liam Dawe,
Playable in solo or online in co-op, Pine Studio (Faraway: Director's Cut, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell) have announced their escape room game Escape Simulator is releasing on October 19.

Chilled puzzle game Unpacking is set to release on November 2

By Liam Dawe,
On November 2 you'll be able to experience the joy of sorting through boxes in a new home thanks to Unpacking. Developed by Witch Beam, known for the ace twin-stick shooter Assault Android Cactus.

The universe expands with Stellaris 3.1 'Lem' out now, Stellaris free to try until Sept 20

By Liam Dawe,
Now is the absolute best time to love space and strategy games! Paradox Interactive has today released the 3.1 Lem update for Stellaris and you can play free until September 20.

xrdesktop for turning your desktop into a VR space had a productive Summer

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora has given an update on the working going into xrdesktop, the free and open source project that turns your desktop into a VR space and allows you to layer windows on top of others.
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