Crown Siege, an incremental tower defense game has a fun demo worth a go
Mixing together incremental systems with lots of upgrades while you defend a tower from goblins, Crown Siege is a fun little demo to give a try. Quite a nice chilled…
Alchemic Beasts has a fun sounding spin on creature collecting based on creature companionship
Most creature collecting games have you simply battle to earn XP and level up, with Alchemic Beasts focusing more on companionship and relationships. That alone might be enough to make…
Nushell: A Better Shell for Files, Processes, and JSON
I’ve spent plenty of time writing quick awk and sed one-liners just to grab a column from ps or filter files by size. The problem is that traditional shells like…
Valve fixed Diablo IV on Linux / SteamOS via Proton Hotfix
Blizzard broke Diablo IV on Linux / SteamOS machines with the Season 14 update, but Valve have now fixed it themselves in Proton Hotfix. Valve don’t really announce updates to…
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.17 is out now
Dear Heroes of Might and Magic II players and the fheroes2 project supporters! Today we are bringing you a new version of the fheroes2 engine – 1.1.17! This release touches…
PlayStation 5 Linux project gets upgraded to support new firmware and PS5 Slim
You should be able to do whatever you want with hardware you purchase – and the ps5-linux project for the PlayStation 5 continues expanding Linux support. With the latest updates…
Carbon engine framework powering EVE Online is now open source
Fenris Creations announced today that Carbon, their cross-platform game engine framework behind EVE Online (and EVE Frontier) is now completely open source. Should be interesting for people to re-use and…
The death of physical media – Sony announced the end of PlayStation disc production
One less reason to go with a traditional console for gaming – Sony announced they’re killing off physical PlayStation media. When will it happen? It will take effect from January…
Steam Survey – June 2026 shows Linux dip to 3.69%
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2026 is out – so here’s our usual look over the statistics provided by users who opt-in to it. We’ve seen Linux…
I Stopped Using VMs for Demos, and I Run Linux in the Browser Now
For years, my default setup for Linux demos was simple. Spin up a virtual machine, configure the environment, take a snapshot, and hope nothing breaks during the presentation. In fact,…