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Factorio mod developer and Hooded Horse reveal new automation game Substructure

By Liam Dawe,
This is going to be horrible for my free time. Substructure sounds like a real interesting entry into the factory building automation genre.

The retro FPS DUSK is getting a dungeon crawler with Dungeons of DUSK

By Liam Dawe,
Dungeons of DUSK has been announced from New Blood Interactive. It's a retro dungeon crawler set canonically between the episodes of the classic FPS DUSK.
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Social stealth narrative game Better Than Us is all about creating a web of lies to steal from the ultra-rich

By Liam Dawe,
A political social stealth narrative game about lying and stealing from the ultra-wealthy? Better Than Us certainly sounds like a game for the times.

KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success

By Liam Dawe,
Absolutely smashing their goals, the KDE team have managed to have a huge success for the 2025 fundraiser that's currently ongoing.

Get ready for another adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon

By Liam Dawe,
The lovely Darkside Detective series is set to expand with a new announcement of The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.

Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Overwatch 2 has launched the big Season 20 update but unfortunately for Linux / SteamOS fans, it comes with some really annoying crash bugs.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for ARC Raiders, The Finals and various other games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just launched their latest upgrade for Proton Experimental to get as many Windows games as possible running on Linux / SteamOS.

Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly

By Liam Dawe,
Creative Assembly recently held their 25th Anniversary Showcase for the Total War series, with Total War: MEDIEVAL III being announced.

War Thunder is getting infantry combat

By Liam Dawe,
Oh no, it's going to pull me back in isn't it? War Thunder is finally adding infantry combat to its roster of war games in a future update.

Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now

By Liam Dawe,
A lovely blast from the past of 2015, Nuclear Throne from the revived Vlambeer has update #100 out now with some major additions and improvements.

Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements.

Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work

By Liam Dawe,
With the first release of Hytale finally approaching, the developers are still working through getting it running on Linux and macOS.

Team Fortress 2 Classic becomes Team Fortress 2 Classified and arrives January 30

By Liam Dawe,
Developer team EMINOMA have officially rebranded Team Fortress 2 Classic into Team Fortress 2 Classified, and they've set a release date for January 30th.

Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships

By Liam Dawe,
Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.

POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down

By Liam Dawe,
Oh dear. Goonswarm Games are shutting down after Running With Scissors cancelled POSTAL: Bullet Paradise due to the use of generative AI.

Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount

By Liam Dawe,
While I was off running around the woods for the weekend, Netflix announced their intention to acquire Warner Bros. but now Paramount want to fight.

GE-Proton 10-26 released with FEX included, improvements for DLSS and game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The Windows compatibility layer GE-Proton 10-26 has released with a bunch of technical improvements, along with various game fixes too.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe,
We're on the road to the release of Wine 11 early next year with the first Release Candidate now available for the Windows compatibility layer.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 49: One More to Go!

By Hamish,
Candy Cruncher stands as an interesting piece of Linux gaming convergence, with it pulling on almost all of the major threads that defined the industry.

Four Total War classics join GOG in their Preservation Program with more on the way

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have announced today that as part of the 25th anniversary of the series, four classic Total War games are now on GOG in their Preservation Program.