Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 round-up of announcements
Last night was the Gamescom Opening Night Live event and there was quite a number of interesting games being announced and shown off.
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Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Antibodies play a central role in your body’s immune defense. But they’re also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers need to go through the process of producing their own antibodies, anti … ⌘ Read more
Drop Loot is a slick reinvention of Tetris as an engrossing dungeon crawler
Stop what you’re doing and check out Drop Loot, which takes the basic idea of Tetris block-dropping and mashes it into a cool dungeon crawler.
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True classic SNES JRPG ‘Terranigma’ comes to PC in early 2027
Much loved back in the 90s, the classic JRPG Terranigma is making a full return and this time with a PC release being confirmed right away.
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Cult-classic horror point-and-click adventure Sanitarium returns as Sanitarium Enhanced
Sanitarium Enhanced is a modernized and improved edition of the cult-classic psychological horror adventure Sanitarium, originally released in 1998.
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Valve updated a bunch of their older Steam shooters
While Valve didn’t seem to publicly celebrate their 30th anniversary, they did at least go back to some older titles to fix them up.
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Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection announced for September
Licensed by Team 17 and developed by Antstream, Alien Breed 35th Anniversary brings together six brutal games with modernised controls and new modes.
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Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157
While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser… ⌘ Read more
Get a bunch of co-op games and Lovecraftian adventures in two fresh Humble Bundles
Humble Bundle just launched two brand new bundles! One giving you some great co-op games, and the other some freaky Lovecraftian adventures.
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dwproton-11.0-12 released to fix Wuthering Waves on SteamOS / Linux
Wuthering Waves is another of those problematic Anime gacha games that likes to break, but dwproton-11.0-12 has released to keep it going on Linux / SteamOS.
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Ancient Dungeon adds Steam Frame support
The co-op dungeon crawler Ancient Dungeon had an update just before the weekend with some bug fixes - and now it supports Valve’s Steam Frame.
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volt-gui is an AMD Adrenaline / NVIDIA Settings alternative for Linux
Coming from the developer of DXVK-Sarek that recently got updated is volt-gui, an alternative to AMD Adrenaline / NVIDIA Settings for Linux.
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How to Fish is another brilliantly funny online co-op game
How to Fish is another sudden indie sensation that released recently on Steam, bringing friends together to do some completely ridiculous fishing.
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Paradox Interactive to publish survival-crafting creature collector adventure ‘Guardians of the Wild Sky’
Arriving sometime in 2027, Paradox Interactive with their publishing arm Paradox Arc revealed Guardians of the Wild Sky.
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1992 Amiga shoot ‘em up classic remake Apidya’ Special arrives August 25
Chock full of glorious 16-bit pixel action and really does bring you back to the feel of gaming in the 90s, Apidya’ Special arrives today.
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Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter brings game crossovers in a free expansion
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter has a brand new free expansion out new with a whole bunch of new content along with a few fun game crossovers.
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Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system… ⌘ Read more
For the first time in probably 30 years, I played a game of M.U.L.E. tonight (and won!).
Granted, it was a beginner-level game, with a beginner-level alien against 3 computer players, but… I’m just sayin’.
I even lost one of my tracts of land due to it not being “recorded”, and I still won.
Take that, Mechtrons!
@klaxzy@klaxzy.net What do you mean, it’s the most people we’ve ever had… since Jul 11, when the search site was relaunched. 😁
HOPE 01 brings spooky single-player pixel-art extraction gameplay on September 15
HOPE 01 is a recent discovering that instantly jumped right into my wishlist for the interesting blending of genres with the horror-survival extraction theme.
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Gunstoppable is vibrant, fast and full of explosive wall-running action
Gunstoppable is blazing fast momentum-fueled roguelite shooter, one that fans of fast-paced action will no doubt absolutely love.
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The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes add Steam Frame support
More and more games have been adding dedicated Steam Frame support, with the Great on Frame page now listing 86 games ready for Valve’s new VR kit.
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Voxel game creation platform Luanti (formerly Minetest) gets basic gamepad support, security fixes
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a popular free and open source voxel game creation platform, with the latest release 5.17.0 out now and it’s an important one.
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First-person gothic adventure ‘Night Cart: The Immortal Plague’ is a must for your wishlist
Drive a horse-drawn cart through plague-ridden Transylvania in the first-person gothic adventure Night Cart: The Immortal Plague that sounds rather interesting.
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Forsworn looks great for fans of repeatable tactical RPGs - arriving September 10
Built around party-building, tough tactical battles, and run-based progression - Forsworn is definitely one you need to keep an eye on.
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Minecraft Dungeons II gets a brand new gameplay trailer
Are you excited for some more dungeon crawling action in Minecraft Dungeons II? There’s a new gameplay trailer out now ahead of the September release.
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Bazzite Linux 44 for handhelds finally launches with some massive upgrades
Bazzite Linux 44 has been out for desktops for a while, but the “Deck” image for handhelds and console-like TV PCs is finally here with a huge overhaul.
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Agent 64: Spies Never Die is pure retro FPS nostalgia bait
Designed to be very much like a slightly more modern version of the Nintendo 64’s classic GoldenEye - this is well and truly nostalgia bait.
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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as “private and secure.” A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired … ⌘ Read more
Bethesda finally fix the Skyrim Special Edition on-screen keyboard crashing SteamOS / Steam Deck
A new update from Bethesda has rolled out for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, and much like with Fallout 4, they finally fixed an annoying bug.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is out now with a big free upgrade
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is the first major expansion for the open-world shooter, bringing with it a huge free upgrade for all owners.
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SKINFACE is a gruesome stealth game where you steal faces
SKINFACE is a gruesome upcoming horror-thriller where you become a faceless hitman with a special skill: stealing people’s faces.
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Monke bullet heaven survivor-like chaos will come in 2027 with Gorilla Tag Contagion
The very popular VR game Gorilla Tag is getting a spin-off for PC and consoles named Gorilla Tag Contagion, a co-op survival roguelite.
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The impressive Sandustry already hit 100K sales with an early multiplayer mod out now
Released only a week ago, publisher Hooded Horse sent word that Sandustry has managed to hit over 100K sales already which is mighty impressive.
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Live-action sci-fi horror game PRECOGNITION sounds rad from Sam Barlow
PRECOGNITION is the latest from Immortality and Her Story creator, Sam Barlow. a cinematic sci-fi horror game featuring live-action sequences.
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The Loopler is a roguelite deckbuilder about a slot car driving in mesmerizing loops
You love a good numbers-go-up dopamine hit right? How about with a slot car driving in loops while you power it up with game-changing cards.
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Space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight arrives September 15
With a demo I really liked and played a lot of, the space bullet heaven roguelike Sublight is set to warp into Early Access on September 15th.
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Dominocalypse brings some clever ideas to puzzle roguelikes with dominoes
Dominocalypse clearly takes some inspiration from Balatro and many other score-chasing roguelikes, but the dominoes spin is pretty darn clever.
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Dumb Ways to Build brings some funny co-op from Dumb Ways to Die on September 10
From the Dumb Ways to Die team, they revealed Dumb Ways to Build - a chaotic physics-based co-op game filled with deadly construction jobs.
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Cinematic puzzle-platforming comedy LIFTED is a delightful short adventure
LIFTED is a family-friendly and quite funny cinematic platforming adventure that recently released with Native Linux support.
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Roguelike assassination game ‘Gone Feral’ sounds hilarious
Playable solo or in co-op, you will improvise and use anything you can find to assassinate your targets of revenge in this roguelike game.
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SiN Reloaded from Nightdive arrives September 24
SiN Reloaded from Nightdive Studios / Atari is now set to arrive on September 24th bringing with it more upgraded retro shooting goodies.
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It’s time to enter the Torment Hexus for some roguelike match-3 battling
I’m a bit of a sucker for match-3 games and Torment Hexus has style oozing out of it, so it was a must-played for me and it’s great.
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TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age is one to check out for RTS fans
TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age just entered Early Access with Linux support, and if you love RTS games you need to check it out.
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RetroSpace will bring disco-punk space horror on October 1
RetroSpace is an upcoming immersive sim that really looks like one to watch blending the worlds of disco-punk and space horror.
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Turn neighbourhoods into car parks in Car Park Capital - confirmed to arrive October 9
Car Park Capital allows you to live out your grey dream of bulldozing entire neighbourhoods as you’ve convinced everyone they need another car park.
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Linux VRAM management set for more improvements with kernel 7.3
Valve contractor Natalie Vock blogged about more work to improve VRAM management on Linux, and we’re set to see even more improvements with kernel 7.3.
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Proton Experimental brings fixes for Company of Heroes 3, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Arma 3 and more
Valve just launched the latest Proton Experimental update to improve gaming on Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine - here’s all that’s changed.
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Bethesda finally fix the Fallout 4 on-screen keyboard crashing on Steam Deck / SteamOS
Oh my gosh, finally. Such a simple issue that has been a problem for years is finally fixed. Bethesda just updated Fallout 4 and here’s what’s changed.
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Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors
Nice to see an expansion of Linux on devices, with the Framework Laptop 12 getting support for pre-builts to ship with Fedora KDE 44 and Intel Core Series 3.
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