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Dome Keeper free multiplayer update and Lost Keepers DLC have launched

By Liam Dawe,
The excellent Dome Keeper now has multiplayer, and there's a new content DLC available that brings The Infiltrator and The Beastmaster characters.

Portal 2: Community Edition arrives in Beta on April 17

By Liam Dawe,
The Portal 2 modding scene is about to explode with the upcoming Beta release of Portal 2: Community Edition, giving you some big new tools.
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Amazon Luna rips out game stores, game purchases and third-party subscriptions

By Liam Dawe,
How long before Amazon Luna goes the way of Google Stadia? Amazon announced some big changes for their cloud gaming service.

Triple-i Initiative Showcase had some really incredible announcements - a roundup

By Liam Dawe,
Love indie games? The Triple-i Initiative Showcase happened recently (while I was on holiday) and there were some truly incredible announcements.

Dune: Awakening to get self-hosted servers, plus they're splitting PvE and PvP

By Liam Dawe,
Funcom are finally dealing with some of the wider issues in the MMO Dune: Awakening, which includes expanded self-hosting support and more focus on PvE.

The absolute classic Cave Story+ has a huge free upgrade on PC

By Liam Dawe,
Cave Story+ is a true classic and the developers have given the PC release an absolutely massive upgrade with tons new for the game including 2-player.

Open source RTS game Warzone 2100 version 4.7 brings major changes

By Liam Dawe,
Warzone 2100 is an excellent classic real-time strategy (RTS) game that continues living on thanks to the open source community, with a huge new release out.

D7VK version 1.7 brings even more retro Direct3D gaming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
D7VK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for D7VK 3, 5, 6, 7 to run with Wine / Proton on Linux and version 1.7 further improves running retro games.

Linux kernel 7.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The Linux kernel 7.0 has arrived and with it plenty of support for new hardware, lots of fixes and some new documents on AI code helpers.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.15 is out now

By fheroes2,
A brand new version of fheroes2 is out now, the open source and cross-platform Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine reimplementation.

Pick up some quality adventure games in the Humble Golden Tales Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
The Humble 15 Golden Tales Bundle has launched with 8 great adventure games as Humble celebrate 15 years of supporting charity with many cheap games.

Get some great tower defense games in a fresh Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Bundle have launched another nice bundle giving you some great looking and highly rated tower defense games.

Humble Choice for April 2026 includes Assassin's Creed Valhalla and more indie gems

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh month and a new Humble Choice bundle filled with a random but rather good selection of games to claim.

Legendary, the free and open source Epic Games Launcher, has moved to a new organisation

By Liam Dawe,
Legendary, the open source launcher that powers the Epic Games integration in the likes of the Heroic Games Launcher has switched hands to keep it going.

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

By Liam Dawe,
The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

Valve dev fixes up VRAM management on AMD GPUs to improve performance

By Liam Dawe,
VRAM management on Linux with AMD GPUs is about to get a whole lot better - which is great news for gaming, especially on the lower-end or hitting VRAM limits.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for classic Resident Evil 1 & 2, Dino Crisis 1 & 2 and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve launched the latest upgrade to Proton Experimental, their staging ground for all the latest fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS.

SteamVR Beta brings a number of fixes for Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve recently launched some fresh fixes for SteamVR, and thankfully it seems Linux is finally seeing some more attention with it.

Framework tease new hardware and something big for Linux too

By Liam Dawe,
Framework's "[Next Gen] Event" is coming on April 21 where we expect new hardware announcements, and it looks like something big for Linux too.

Bazzite Linux gets some major upgrades for the April 2026 Update

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite Linux is easily one of the most popular gaming-focused Linux builds to run on handhelds and gaming PCs, with a major new update launching soon.