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Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue gives you a taste of the excellent tactical game

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2021

Mainframe Defenders released back in February 2020 is a quality turn-based tactics game with a very retrofuturistic visual style like old terminals and now there's a free Mainframe Defenders: Meltdown - Prologue to play.

Mighty Goose is a furious over the top honking good time and it's out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2021

Mighty Goose is the brand new run and gun action game from Blastmode, MP2 Games and publisher PLAYISM. It's out now with same-day Linux support and it's fantastic.

DOOMBRINGER is a new first-person shooter from veterans of the Doom and Quake communities

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2021

Need a new retro styled FPS? Veterans of the Doom and Quake communities seem to have delivered with DOOMBRINGER.

Git yourself some Wine with the new 6.10 development release

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2021

Another Friday, another two weeks and so a fresh development release is out of the compatibility layer Wine.

Haiki is a brutal precision-platformer where you play as a severed head

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2021

You got decapitated and now you're on a quest to defeat the slash-happy Baron Nohead, Haiki has a somewhat amusing setup and the platforming is great.

Wasteland 3: The Battle of Steeltown is out now with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2021

inXile Entertainment have released Wasteland 3: The Battle of Steeltown, the first major expansion for their post-apocalyptic RPG and it's quite a big one.

Loved Celeste? You're going to want to play brain-twisting precision platformer Sunblaze

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2021

Celeste was tough, incredible and beautiful but controller-throwing annoying and Sunblaze sits along nicely beside it now as one of my new favourites.

If you're looking for a virtual table-top check out the latest Foundry VTT

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2021

Foundry VTT (Foundry Virtual Tabletop) is probably one of the absolute best there is for playing virtual table-top games on Linux and there's a huge new release out with a new video to explain the whole thing.

Pop!_OS 21.04 has a Beta out now with their new COSMIC desktop

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2021

System76 have recently released the first Beta of their Linux distribution Pop!_OS 21.04, which comes with their brand new COSMIC desktop environment.

It's been over "20 years in the making", Blender 2.93 LTS is out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2021

The Blender team today are making quite the super-effective splash about the Blender 2.93 LTS release mentioning how it's been "20 years in the making".

OBS Studio 27.0 out with service integration, browser dock support and Wayland on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2021

OBS Studio 27.0 is now officially out marking one of the biggest releases they've ever done, especially if you're a Linux user and it's looking great.

Deck-building roguelite Griftlands from Klei is out now and it's wonderful

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2021

After only recently adding Linux support, Klei Entertainment has now officially released their incredibly stylish and engrossing deck-builder Griftlands.

First-person grid-based dungeon crawler Inferno - Beyond the 7th Circle out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2021

Inferno - Beyond the 7th Circle is a brand new dungeon crawler like they used to make. Grid-based movement, a moody theme and now there's a Linux native version available.

1998 classic strategy game Signus: The Artefact Wars sees a full open source release

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2021

Signus: The Artefact Wars, originally a commercial release in 1998 was later open sourced in 2002 and it just got an updated re-release with all the data too.

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries runs great on Linux with Proton now it's on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2021

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, the first single player MechWarrior game for a long time has jumped from the Epic Store over to Steam and it runs well on Linux.

Two more 11th Gen Intel Core processors announced i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2021

Computex 2021 is now in full swing and Intel came out with two new processors as part of their 11th Gen Intel Core U-series designed for thin and light laptops with the i7-1195G7 and i5-1155G7 with Iris Xe graphics.

Bitmapflow helps artists generate inbetweens for animated sprites

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2021

Are you developing games? Making awesome gifs of things and whatever else? Bitmapflow is a very clever application that will generate extra parts of animations to make them smoother.

Retro Commander is a "4X post-apocalyptic RTS" that now has an Alpha available

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2021

Want to try your hand at an in-development RTS that has some potential? Check out Retro Commander, from Noble Master Games ( Age of Conquest IV, Demise of Nations).

Eagle Island Twist has released as a massive free content upgrade for Eagle Island

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2021

Eagle Island from developer Pixelnicks has expanded and turned into Eagle Island Twist, now featuring a whole new campaign to play through that's very different to the original.