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Check out Nainai's Recipe, a sweet game about cooking and staying connected

By Liam Dawe,
2020 and lots of 2021 were weird for a lot of reasons, especially with the quarantines due to COVID-19. Nainai's Recipe is a game about learning to cook, with a little distanced help from your grandma.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

Dungeon-crawling tower defense 'Dwerve' delays the release until early 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Dwerve, a crowdfunded and very promising upcoming dungeon crawler that blends in tower defense has a long delay.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player releases in November

By Liam Dawe,
Another revamp of a classic is on the way with the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player project, which has announced a release on November 19, 2021.

There's experimental patches to bring Vulkan Ray Tracing to older AMD hardware on Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
Want to see how Ray Tracing would run on Linux using the Mesa RADV driver on an older GPU? Well, thanks to developer Joshua Ashton that's starting to be possible.

AMD reveals Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution and more

By Liam Dawe,
AMD came out of the gates swinging wildly at Computex 2021 with new chips, new tech and lots more new including: AMD 3D chiplet technology, AMD Ryzen 5000 G-Series desktop APUs, next-gen gaming laptops with their new AMD Radeon 6000M Series Mobile Graphics and their DLSS competitor in FidelityFX Super Resolution.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA did a big splash at Computex 2021 with the expected announcement of two new top-end GPUs and quite a big surprise for Linux gaming with the official inclusion of NVIDIA DLSS for Proton.

sSSSsss BOOM! The Minecraft Caves & Cliffs: Part 1 update releases on June 8

By Liam Dawe,
Pick up your sword, your shovel and prepare for an almighty headbutt as Minecraft Caves & Cliffs: Part 1 has been confirmed for release on June 8.

Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 25 to release in June with feature-freeze imminent

By Liam Dawe,
Wildfire Games have given an update on the status of 0 A.D. Alpha 25, which they've now confirmed the feature freeze will begin on June 6 to focus on getting it release ready.

Fanatical has some good bundles going right now if you need some new games

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical aren't a store we cover often but they're actually great, and they currently have a few bundles going that you should check out if you need some new games this week.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

Retro game streaming service Piepacker is quite impressive and works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
We've seen numerous game streaming services now like Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and probably more to come. They all focus on the new and shiny but what about old games? Piepacker is going to be a hit for that.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

Linux distribution Solus joins Open Collective for funding hardware and developers

By Liam Dawe,
Solus, a popular standalone Linux distribution has announced they've joined Open Collective as they attempt to pull in funding to push ahead with it.

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

By Liam Dawe,
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.

Grab a coffee and come read the latest Sunday Section - May 30

By Liam Dawe,
Time to round-up some of the smaller items we unfortunately didn't get time to go over this week, grab a coffee and relax with a short read of some good stuff.

Bitmapflow helps artists generate inbetweens for animated sprites

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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).

Valve looks to be overhauling Steam Library folders to finally make them more useful

By Liam Dawe,
We're seeing even more leaks out of a recent Steam Beta update from Valve that not only hinted at the SteamPal console, and the new Downloads page but also a big overhaul to the Library manager.

The visually striking action-adventure Resolutiion gets another big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Haven't picked up Resolutiion yet? You're missing out on a wonderful trip through some seriously striking scenes in this action-adventure game. Now is a great time to grab it with a sale and a big upgrade.