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Block’hood, the upwards focused neighbourhood-building simulator is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

If you have been missing out on another building game, never fear, GOG is near! Block’hood is now available on GOG.

The Battlefield-like single player FPS 'Ravenfield' will have a paid version; a Steam Greenlight page is now live

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 6 Feb 2017

Shortly after reaching the milestone of one million downloads on December 12th, 2016, the single developer of Ravenfield announced that a paid version of the game is being prepared, and right now a Steam Greenlight page is already up.

We now have an official Ballistic Overkill server

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2017

Joining the ranks today is a new official GOL game server for Ballistic Overkill, my favourite indie FPS right now.

Taking on the universe in Avorion, my thoughts on this new sandbox spaceship building game

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2017

The developer of Avorion accepted my request for a key, so I took Avorion for a spin. It’s in Early Access, so keep that in mind.

An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia'

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2017

I had the pleasure of talking to Simon Roth, a developer I've followed for quite some time now about his game 'Maia', about Linux and other bits. Linux sales for Simon are 'approaching ten thousand', which is impressive.

The Exiled to be released into Early Access on February 23rd

By BTRE, 30 Jan 2017

This open world MMORPG promises to have most of the traditional fun of the genre in more manageable chunks for those of us too busy to spend every waking moment playing it.

Project Zomboid to finally get in-game maps you can make notes on

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2017

It's pretty easy to get completely lost in Project Zomboid, but the developers have announced a new feature coming: maps.

Avorion, a procedural co-op space sandbox is now on Linux and it looks awesome

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Avorion promises to give you a big open galaxy to explore fight, trade and construct spaceships in. They claim to remove a lot of micro-management which has me excited and it looks really slick.

Ballistic Overkill major update released, new huge map and private servers

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Ballistic Overkill, my favourite online FPS right now has a new update and it's quite a biggy. It includes a big new map and other goodies.

Mini Thief, an interesting 2D game about robbing increasingly difficult houses

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2017

I’ve been testing out ‘Mini Thief’, a 2D game about robbing people and hopefully not getting caught. The question is as always: is it worth your bucks?

Farting on everyone in 'CropDuster Supreme' now available on Linux, it's actually hilarious

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2017

The aim of the game in 'CropDuster Supreme' is to fart on people, now you may think this sounds terrible — but it's actually quite amusing! I know, I'm shocked too.

Building on up in Block'hood, my early thoughts on this cute neighbourhood-building sim

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2017

Block'hood is a neighbourhood-building sim that's currently in Early Access. I couldn't resist grabbing a copy when it released for Linux, so here's some early thoughts.

Evolvation, an Unreal Engine online space shooter is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2017

I've given Evolvation for a little spin, but right now it's still in development and it has issues to be aware of.

Rise to Ruins (previously Retro-Pixel Castles) has a major content update now out

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2017

The new official name 'Rise to Ruins' along with a big update to my favourite little village builder is now live.

Looks like FPS game 'Squad' might be coming to Linux soon

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2017

Squad, the FPS game from Offworld Industries is showing signs that it might be coming over to Linux.

Early Access survival game 'Rust' gains Vulkan support in a pre-release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2017

Rust, from Facepunch Studios is another game to add to the list that use Vulkan, although it's only on the pre-release version right now.

Have you tried Switchcars? A roguelike arcade game set in a broken spacetime

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

Switchcars is a game I've been putting off trying for quite some time to wait for it to get polished up some more, but now I've jumped in at the deep end of this arcade style roguelike.

Ballistic Overkill, possibly my current favourite online FPS updated, available in more countries now too

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Ballistic Overkill, the really fun and dirt cheap online FPS is now available in more countries! On top of that, they worked on some more optimization.

Project Zomboid updated yet again, trading now possible with other players

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Project Zomboid has another release pushed to the stable branch of this in-development Zombie survival game. One of the major new features is the ability to trade with other players when playing online.