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It's easy to adjust an RPG's difficulty by scaling damage and adding more enemies, but Project Eternity wants to go in a different direction, using a new encounter system to completely change certain aspects of battle.

Double Fine brought Broken Age out to Los Angeles on Tuesday and Shacknews took a few minutes to go hands-on with the upcoming adventure game and check out the dialogue and inventory systems in action.

Decades of relentless overenthusiasm from Linux fans about this year really being "the year of the Linux desktop" means I struggle to even joke about that by now, but Valve bringing Steam to Linux certainly has spurred interest in the operating system. Metro: Last Light is n...

Nostalgia-plying games crowdfunded as the gold rush began are gathering pace, breaching from industry veterans' nebulous realm of "Wouldn't it be cool if?" into our world, our lives, our homes. To make good on its plan to release Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse this year...

Valve had been experimenting with biometric controllers. However, its Steam Controller is missing any biometric functionality. What happened?

Paradox's publishing plan is pretty clear by now--release an unapologetically PC-y game, then follow up with oodles of expansions and DLC--so it was never a question of if Europa Universalis IV would get an expansion, but when. December 11 is the answer, when Conquest of Par...

Valve's Greg Comer confirmed: "you won't see an exclusive killer app for SteamOS from us. We're not going to be doing that kind of thing."

The world of virtual reality powered by Oculus Rift is unattainable to most. But that will change in 2014, when the company plans on releasing a consumer unit. It will be a single device that will be compatible with PC, Mac, Linux, and Android.

No true decker would be caught dead using Winblow$ or Appl€ products recreationally, so it's only fitting that Shadowrun Returns is now on Linux. It arrived yesterday alongside the cyberpunk-fantasy RPG's patch 1.1, which brings changes including reworking the Physical Ade...

Space can be a terrifying place, especially when one of your fellow astronauts beams like a fool no matter what's happening. Thankfully Kerbal Space Program managers can now lark about in space with their chums, as enterprising modders have whipped together multiplayer suppo...

Gone Home has added a free Commentary Mode, with insights from the development team, voice talent, and composer. It's also currently hosting a 50% off sale.

The new Monaco update accompanying the game's Steam launch adds a zombie mode, an origin stories mini-campaign, and a new playable character called "the Blonde."

Now that you've quite certainly launched into space in Kerbal Space Program and almost definitely visited other worlds and absolutely don't explode your spaceships in terrible accidents anymore, it's time for science. Developer Squad yesterday released update 0.22 for the sp...

Monaco is coming to Linux on October 21, along with "a ton of free/new content."

The latest Humble Bundle is going cross-platform with Ticket to Ride, Greed Corp, Incredipede, and Anodyne all playable across PC, Mac, Linux, and Android. Paying more than the average will get you Worms Reloaded, the Android version of Worms 2: Armageddon, and The Bard's Ta...