And if your character isn't convincing enough, you die.
Forget all the new games coming out in 2026. Newly shiny old games are where it's at.
Marcus Lehto says the halo rings in Halo: Campaign Evolved look way too shiny and new.
In 2021, in their bid to get more of a hold on the games industry after dominating film and television streaming, Netflix acquired Oxenfree and Afterparty developer Night School Studio, the first developer they had ever acquired. Now, five years later, the streaming giant is shuttering Night School Studio, as well as Moonloot, another developer they owned that was yet to put out a game. This comes six weeks after the release of Night School's latest game, the Netflix exclusive Unhinged. Read
Moonlight, a studio Netflix founded in 2022, is also being closed.
Kinetic Games are keeping busy! You may have heard yesterday that the Phasmophobia developer is publishing the next game from Her Story and Immortality's Sam Barlow (who's roped in Brandon Cronenberg this time around). That's not all that was announced however, as there's a bevy of other, not even scary at all, actually, games that are coming up from the new publisher. Read more
And skeletons. And demons. Andâwellâeverything bad, really.
Hooded Horse picked another good one to publish here from developer Lantto Games. Sandustry is a factory automation game where every pixel is a resource.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
OVERKILL / Starbreeze Entertainment announced that PAYDAY 2 has dropped support for their Native Linux version with a big update to the game with 64bit support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
The response to Game Freak's post-apocalyptic action RPG has not been universally positive.
What's old is new (and also old) again! It's been 40 years since the release of the classic Amiga strategy game Defender of the Crown, and to mark the occasion it has received a new PC port called The Legend Returns that packages in the original game alongside a complete visual revamp and a totally fresh roguelike mode. Read more
Previously only available in beta form, Nvidia has now released the complete version of its GeForce NOW cloud streaming software for Linux users, bringing a final layer of stability and polish to the program.
It's quite the month for sand-related games! Sandcastle, a literal sandbox game, received a demo earlier this month, and now here we are today with the release of Sandustry, another, entirely different literal sandbox game. Where Sandcastle is about building, uh, castles out of sand, Sandustry is about building entire factories, and also, apparently, discovering an ancient civilization's secrets. Sure! Read more
My faceplate's made from wood, from the same forest as trees.
Win one of five copies of hardcore FPS game Hell Let Loose Vietnam with not much more than a click of your mouse or a tap on your phone.
First-person sneakalot The Lost Wild is about surviving on an island overrun by dinosaurs, from the relatively affable diplodocus to the absolutely intolerable allosaurus. I'm not sure how you survive a brush with an allosaurus, because allosauruses appear to be provoked by any and all objects in their vicinity. "An area [of the project] I find particularly fascinating is the difference between dinosaur behaviour for each species, and what that could mean for gameplay and character," says game
Many of our greatest works are downstream of terrible woe.
Locate this treasure chest near a race track.
If you know your dungeons from your dragons, and your wargames from your TTRPGs, Wargamer is looking for a new Editor, and it could be you.
Caravan SandWitch is an indie darling that needs no introduction, but if you've yet to play it, it's free on Epic Games Store this week.
A legally distinct Game Boy-like chassis, of course.
Sony-only.
Blending the very different worlds of typing games with survivor-like bullet heavens, Typomagical will make you sweat as you frantically type spells.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
