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Detective Grimoire Secret Of The Swamp Mystery & Adventure Game Out Now

By Liam Dawe,
Detective Grimoire has been called to investigate a murder. The owner of a small tourist attraction, found deep within the heart of the marshes, seemingly killed by the very mythical creature his attraction is based around... Explore the surrounding area, inspect the scene of the crime, grill the suspects, solve puzzles, search for clues and uncover the secret of the swamp!

Paradise Lost: First Contact Action & Adventure Game Available For Pre-Order

By Liam Dawe,
In a remote desert, an unidentified object falls from the skies. A research organization known as G.E.R. has tracked and found the mysterious meteor: a capsule of organic material that brings an unknown life-form to our planet from the depths of space. Here begins the story of this impossible being, as it attempts to escape and survive on this strange, hostile world that we call home.

Starpoint Gemini 2 Space RPG Could Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth. Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray... It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, and the situation in the war-torn system is further from resolution than ever before.

Magicite A 2D Multiplayer RPG To Hit Steam Early Access This Month

By Liam Dawe,
Magicite is a 2D multiplayer RPG action game with epic loot, crafting, pixel art, and PERMADEATH! It was Kickstarted back in November 2013 and it's getting set to see a public release.

Terasology Open-Source Survival & Discovery Game New Build

By Liam Dawe,
Terasology is an open-source survival and discovery game with influences from Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and Dungeon Keeper. The game is in a pre-alpha state, but it's already fun to play!

Eschalon Book 3 RPG To Enter Beta This Month

By Liam Dawe,
The popular Eschalon Book RPG series is due to get it's third and final instalment this year with a beta test due to start very soon!

Build & Defend A Tower Defence & Survival Hybrid 1.0 Release

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a long time since I first told you about Build & Defend and it has come a long way, it now has over 10,000 registered players and it has released its 1.0 release.

Steam's Hardware Survey For December, Looking Promising

By Liam Dawe,
Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.

Dark Gates RPG Releases 0.6

By Liam Dawe,
In Dark Gates you lead your team of 6 heroes into dungeon where they will fight their way through it in order to destroy the Dark Gates and the evil mage who is the master of the dungeon.

Goscurry Rhythm Racer Is Now On Desura

By Liam Dawe,
Goscurry is a hard game, developed by Daniele Giardini with beats by Isak Martinsson, where you must relax and follow the rhythm (except for speedfreak modes, where things go crazy). Try to go as far as you can by piloting a ship on an infinite road, suspended over a stylized and eerie landscape, while taking sharp corners, evading hazards, and avoiding panic attacks.

Deadfall Adventures FPS Linux Beta Released

By Liam Dawe,
A little highlight to end 2013 on for you! Linux now has another good looking first person shooter, Deadfall Adventures has just entered beta!

Have a great new year Linux gamers!

By Liam Dawe,
Wishing you all a great new year, let us hope 2014 brings us some awesome games (we know it will!) and plenty of Steam Machines running SteamOS!

Prison Architect Alpha 16 Release, Craft Your Perfect Prison

By Liam Dawe,
Build and Manage a Maximum Security Prison. Prison Architect is the world's latest Prison Management Sim. Starting with an empty plot of land you must construct a holding cell with basic water and electricity to house your first batch of prisoners, to buy you enough time to create a proper cell block.

Painkiller: Hell and Damnation Linux Beta Gains Windows Compatibility

By Liam Dawe,
That's right demon hunters you can now play along-side people on Windows in Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, along with other fixes.

Fancy Skulls Randomly Generated FPS "Sound and Vision" Update 0.5

By Liam Dawe,
New enemies, visual improvements, better performance, balancing, lots of small tweaks landed in the Fancy Skulls .5 alpha release, I've tested it and it's pretty good fun actually.

Deadlock Puzzle & Platformer FPS With Will Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
This actually looks increadibly cool, Deadlock is a FPS mixing environmental puzzles with plaftormers elements and it pulls it off rather well.

Black Annex Infiltration & Sabotage Game Will Be A Simultaneouse Release For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Black Annex is an action strategy game where the player operates the hands-on business of corporate sabotage and infiltration. Manage company resources, customise and outfit your agents before deploying them to steal, destroy, kidnap and kill as the mission and your own choices dictate.

0 A.D. Open Source Historic RTS Releases Alpha 15 Osiris

By Liam Dawe,
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of "0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris", the fifteenth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. This alpha features a multiplayer lobby, skirmish maps, auras and more!

GOL Cast: Playing With Magnetism in Teslagrad

By Samsai,
Some say that games are a form of art, which is easily believable when you take a look at the graphical style of games these days. This is true especially with many platformers which contain hand-drawn environments and characters, Teslagrad being one of them.

Deadfall Adventures Action & Story Based FPS Linux Beta Due Soon

By Liam Dawe,
Deadfall Adventures is an action-driven first-person shooter, spiced up with elements from action-adventure games. Become an adventurer, hunt for treasures, explore unknown regions of the world and rescue the damsel in distress from the clutches of enemies, both earthly and not-so-earthly.