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Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion

By Liam Dawe,
Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.

Keep creatures fed in the deck-builder Hungry Horrors when it arrives January 19 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away.
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Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes

By Liam Dawe,
Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps

By Liam Dawe,
Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now.

GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks

By Liam Dawe,
The popular community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 10-27 is out now with the usual assortment of game fixes and other improvements.

Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026.

Horror incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a new demo and release date

By Liam Dawe,
The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.

Evolution sim Thrive hits the 1.0 release completing the microbe stage

By Liam Dawe,
Thrive is an open source evolution sim that plans to add many different stages of life with the microbe stage now considered actually ready.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check set for release on January 12 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Devolver Digital announced that Quarantine Zone: The Last Check from Brigada Games is now set for release on January 12, 2026.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.13 has been released

By fheroes2,
Just in time for the holidays, we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 2 on modern systems.

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released the latest stable update for Steam across Desktop, Steam Deck / SteamOS and we have all the changes here for you to see.

Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have done this pretty quietly, but they're discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model now with just the Steam Deck OLED remaining.

Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up a Release Candidate for testing Proton 10.0-4, what will become the main version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux / SteamOS.

Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting

By Liam Dawe,
This is the sale event you've been waiting on isn't it? The Steam Winter Sale 2025 has arrived with a great many thousands of games discounted.

Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.

NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01

By Liam Dawe,
As part of the New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver version 590.48.01 released today for Linux with a few more fixes.

Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
The Mesa team have released Mesa 25.3.2 as the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable branch of open source Linux graphics drivers.

Continuing to make things weird Two Point Museum and Revenge of the Savage Planet do crossovers

By Liam Dawe,
They did a Vampire Survivors update, so sure why not Revenge of the Savage Planet too? Two Point Museum has expanded again in a free update.

Arriving early next year, Dune: Awakening - Chapter 3 is sounding great

By Liam Dawe,
Dune: Awakening from Funcom is getting a big free Chapter 3 update early next year, with the details of it now being revealed along with a paid DLC.