SCS Software continue to expand where we can go trucking with the American Truck Simulator - Colorado expansion out now and it looks like it has some good sights to see.

This is probably one of the bigger DLCs that has been released, which includes tons of areas to drive through like the Million Dollar Highway. A rather special bit of road the stretches around 25 miles, often said to be one of the most beautiful drives in the states where you get views of mountains, valleys and gorges and more. For many of us stuck at home during the COVID19 pandemic, it sounds like something worth exploring.

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Highlights:

• Forget about the real world in vastness of the Great Plains
• Roam through the Rocky Mountains
• Haul cargo on the Million Dollar Highway
• Discover Colorado's important industries like agriculture and a gold mine
• Deliver freight to and from the inside of a large cargo aircraft in Denver International Airport
• Admire accurate representation of cities like Denver and Colorado Springs
• Visit landmarks like the Four Corners Monument and get a bird's-eye view on it with the viewpoint feature
• Unlock Colorado-specific Steam achievements

To celebrate the release, they're doing another of those huge community events on their World of Trucks service that you can hook up to your in-game profile. It's a really sweet feature, that allows players to feel part of something bigger while it being a single-player game and it keeps things nicely chilled-out. The Cruising Colorado event will see players come together to drive a total of 60,000,000 miles (96,560,640 km) while delivering cargo of any kind to or from anywhere in Colorado. Everything counts and if you participate these are the rewards you can expect:

• Personal goal: Players that deliver cargo to or from each of the 13 Colorado cities will gain a personal World of Trucks Achievement and an impressive Rocky Mountain Bighorn themed ATS truck paint job Steam inventory item.
• Community goal: When the community goal of driving 60,000,000 miles (96,560,640 km) during deliveries to or from any of the 13 cities in Colorado is met, and if the player has also achieved their personal goal, then they will receive a hanging Rocky Rodeo Gem ornament Steam inventory item.

You can buy American Truck Simulator from Humble Store and Steam .

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Craftworld Aeldari is the latest expansion to the first turn-based 4x strategy game in the Warhammer universe. As the name suggests, the Craftworld Aeldari expansion brings in another new race that you can control or fight again.

"In the base game, the player could face the conquest and the exploration of Gladius with the heroic Space Marines, the brutal Orks, the brave Imperium and the relentless Necrons. With the additional DLCs, the player can lead the new factions such as the ravenous Tyranids, the corrupted Chaos Space Marines and the ambitious T’au. Now another faction join the fight with the swift and deadly Craftworld Aeldari, one of the most ancient races in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, having turned war into a fine art."

The Craftworld Aeldari bring 19 highly versatile new units with options for long and close range, along with their own fresh gameplay mechanics. Check out the release trailer below:

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Feature Highlight:

• Webway Gate - Exploit your knowledge of webway gates to activate them and move swiftly across the battlefield.
• Webway Redoubt - Found a city on top of an activated webway gate to fortify Craftworld Aeldari’s presence on Gladius.
• Remnants of the Fall - Reduced city growth rate. The last remnants of a people whose mere dreams once overturned worlds and quenched suns.
• Asuryani Arrivals - Call upon offworld Asuryani to join you and temporarily boost your growth rate.
• Transcendent Bliss - Focus the Aeldari’s spiritual consciousness to experience a period of increased loyalty towards your cause.
• Spirit Preservation - Gain energy for every fallen Aeldari unit.
• Battle Focus - Many Craftworld Aeldari units can move after using their actions.
• Ancient Doom - The Aeldari loathe and fear She Who Thirsts above all else, increasing their accuracy, but also the damage taken when fighting the forces of Chaos.

On top of all the new bits for the DLC, Gladius version 1.7 was also released which pulls in plenty new and improved for all players of the game regardless of buying the DLC or not. Free updates include:

• Improved performance
• Improved sound effects.
• 7 new colours.
• New neutral unit: Umbra (terrifying flying monstrous creature that is vulnerable to light).
• 32 new Steam achievements.
• Transports can now carry allied units.
• Units in transports can now be selected to inspect their status such as ability cooldowns.
• Added details tab to the stats panel, listing the resources accumulated, units created, units lost, units killed, damage dealt, damage taken and buildings constructed for each player.
• Cross-play with Epic Games Store

You can buy Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War from Humble Store , GOG and Steam .

Graveyard Keeper - Game Of Crone is an expansion to the medieval graveyard building and management sim that's like a morbid take on Stardew. This fresh expansion adds in another bunch of hours (6-12 they said approximately) to play through, along with a whole new story to follow where you help a bunch of escaped prisoners build up a camp.

"You’ll have to help the escaped prisoners of the Inquisition survive in the wilderness by providing them with everything they need. To develop their camp to a fortified settlement while keeping in mind its benefits. To protect those who entrusted you with their lives, from the sword and fire. And also - to untangle the circumstances of the cruel game, which turned into the Great Blast and the return of the Ancient Curse."

Check out the launcher trailer below:

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Feature Highlight:

• Build your own refugee camp and bring it to prosperity
• Brand new bag mechanics
• Get access to new dishes, gravestones, fences, and to teleportation scrolls
• Deal with a vampire terrorizing a peaceful Village
• Unravel the secret of the mysterious death of your predecessor
• Find out even more terrible secrets of your old and new friends
• Become an ally of Comrade Donkey and take part in the Revolution

They said that the DLC can be access from both the beginning and end of the game, so you can't miss out on it by accident or by where you are in the game with current saves. There's also new achievements, bug fixes and improvements to the main game have been released in a patch, and there's some new music too which they've added to the existing soundtrack.

You can buy the game and the DLC from GOG , Humble Store and Steam .

The huge open-world space sandbox Avorion has the first expansion releasing on November 2, along with plenty more details revealed and a trailer.

It's going to include quite a lot of extra content for those who wants it. Avorion already had a huge open world with lots to do, and you can spend hours in it easily thanks to the deep ship-building mechanics. This expansion is aimed it those who want more story and more game mechanics overall though with 20 new story missions, side-missions and events. There's a new hacking ability, a Black Market to trade at with illegal and stolen space goods along with weapons and upgrades only found there. On top of that there's The Convoy story event, that has a huge convoy attempt an expedition towards the center of the galaxy and you can choose to join or fight it.

You can see the exciting new trailer below:

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When the expansion becomes available, a big free update for everyone will be released too which is currently in an opt-in Beta for testing on Steam. This will bring all players in Avorion a number of advancements including:

• Docking - Ships can dock to other objects and fly around with them
• New ship controls / communications like bribes and inspections
• The RTS style Strategy Mode got some huge improvements
• Legendary Weapons - need we say more?
• Visual Improvements
• Performance Improvements
• Bugfixes

They also confirmed all players can play together, regardless of owning DLC or not. Some DLC-specific events can be played by all players, as long as someone with the DLC is around to start it too. Seems like a pretty great way to ensure your community can stay together. That's if you play it online anyway, it can be played entirely solo.

If you want a space sandbox to play by yourself or with others, one that supports Linux then you should absolutely take a look at Avorion.

You can buy Avorion on Humble Store and Steam .

Iratus: Wrath of the Necromancer is the brand new expansion to Iratus: Lord of the Dead, the pretty good reverse dungeon crawler where you control evil forces trying to make their way to the surface.

For those that missed it, the base game Iratus: Lord of the Dead added Linux support along with the 1.0 release back in April 2020 . Giving a similar style to the likes of Darkest Dungeon, without the brutal difficulty and much more of a turn-based dungeon crawling battler than anything else. Iratus: Wrath of the Necromancer builds upon all that and just boosts the available content to keep you going, trailer below:

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With the new expansion it adds in a sixth floor to expand the overall game world and offers up a new ending for Iratus after you manage to defeat the final boss. You face new bosses, new regular enemies on all floors, new minions to create and help you in your evil endeavours, new character skins and so on.

New stuff includes:

• Two new minions
• Additional skins for your minions
• Additions to the alchemy system — craftable battle potions
• New enemies, including ones that take up multiple spaces!
• New bosses, including a final super-boss!
• New game ending with additional outro video and story content
• New items and artifacts
• And more!

You can pick up the DLC and the base game from GOG , Humble Store and Steam .

The latest expansion pack for Stellaris arrives on October 29 and it's going to get a little spooky with the Necroids Species Pack. Diving into the darker side of the galaxy, the expansion comes with as you prepare to meet the Necroids, an intelligent species who believe that death is not the end, but rather the beginning of their journey.

Necroids are known to spend their days excitedly studying in preparation for their eventual "transformation" in the Elevation Chamber. They're not exactly the nicest bunch, and they certainly look the part too. Here's what the expansion comes with:

• 1 New Origin - Necrophage
  • The brand new Necrophage Origin positions gamer-martyrs as a powerful primary species which consumes others within its grasp, blurring the line between cult and empire with three brand new civics:
    • Death Cult: Enables powerful edicts which require the sacrificing of pops
    • Reanimated Armies: Allows the deployment of morality-immune, undead armies
    • Memorialists: Erects monuments to the galaxy’s past, improving planetary stability and honouring tomb worlds

• 16 new portraits (15 organic, 1 robotic)
• New ship set
• New adviser voice-over
• New city set & diplomacy room
• New Name lists
• New building cosmetics

Check out the trailer:

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As a huge fan of Stellaris, I'm excited to see Paradox continue to expand it with new and interesting races.

You can follow it on GOG and Steam .

After launching for Windows on September 3, porter Feral Interactive has now hooked up Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - The Furious Wild for Linux (and macOS) today.

This is the first proper extension to the map in THREE KINGDOMS, letting you visit the jungles around Southern China and with it, the fearsome tribes of the Nanman. On top of the map expansion you get 4 new playable factions each with their own mechanics with a total of 19 new factions included. There's also over 25 new units, new character artwork, a Nanman-specific tech tree and more. You're also able to play it in the 190 and 194 start dates.

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On top of the expansion release, the Linux port is now also actually up to date too with the 1.6.1 update from the Windows version which we've been missing since the end of August. The 1.6 / 1.6.1 update was massive by itself as well so it's great to see that sorted out for Linux too. The highlights of that include:

• The introduction of Shie Xie as a playable character (free DLC )
• A front-end rework, which makes the main menu flow easier to get into a game
• A rework of the entire campaign map which adds in: Gate Pass Battles, new commanderies in the south-west, additional new commanderies across the map and all regions have been given unique names
• Balance changes across all characters and to battles
• New unit type with Juggernauts, a very short-ranged artillery that are very deadly to enemies at close range
• Tons of bug fixes

The Linux version patch notes from Feral are as follows:

• Adds support for the following DLC: The Furious Wild
• Incorporates all changes up to Creative Assembly's 1.6.1 update
• Adds support for the following free content: Shi Xie
• Makes a number of additional improvements and minor bug fixes

Available from Humble Store , Steam or you can buy it direct from the porter Feral Interactive on their store .

Get ready to by an armchair general once again, as Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus is out now for Paradox Development Studio's best-selling strategy wargame about World War II.

What can Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey do to secure their own safety while the world around them is at war? That's what you can find out with this new expansion, as it provides a base for you to meddle with history once again with the new country pack containing new national focus trees for three nations that border the strategic waterways of the Black and Aegean Seas.

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Feature Highlight:

• National Focus Tree for Bulgaria: Balance the factions in a divided land or reclaim territory lost in 1919. Follow the historical alliance with Germany or resist the German pressures on Tsar Boris, standing up for a free Bulgaria.
• National Focus Tree for Greece: Riven by political division, Greek neutrality is maintained by the controversial Metaxas. Build a strong relationship with the Allies under the guidance of King George II, follow arch-conservatives into fascism or restore the glories of Greek Empire in the east.
• National Focus Tree for Turkey: Robbed of its empire in the last war, what future is there for Turkey in a new one? Continue or halt the reforms of Kemalism, stand as the protector of the Balkans in a new regional faction, restore the Sultan to the throne or found a new Islamic state.
• New Music Tracks
• New 3D Unit Models for Balkan and Turkish Armies
• Unique voice overs for Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey

You can buy it from Humble Store and Steam .

Lights! Camera! Scalpel? SEGA and Two Point Studios have a pretty amusing sounding DLC on the way with Two Point Hospital: Culture Shock. Releasing October 20, this new expansion turns things up a notch with the most illnesses included than any of their previous DLC packs.

"Face televisual shenanigans at Plywood Studios as you look to launch a hit medical drama with washed-up film star Roderick Cushion. Head to Mudbury Festival and grab lyrical headlines with musical headliners while serving burgers from questionable vans. Finally, savour the affluent aromas of high society life at Zara’s very own Fitzpocket Academy. Socialise, hobnob, and boost that VIBE darling, because if you don’t who will?"

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Feature Highlight:

• 3 fabulous new locations
• 3 new, fully animated cure machines
• 12 new visual illnesses
• 36 new illnesses in total
• New gameplay
• New music, DJ and tannoy lines

These new illnesses will include some nicely themed issues like: Stunt Trouble, Wardrobe Malfunction, Writer’s Block, Square Eyes, Fourthwall Problem, Stage Hand and so on. I bet they had a lot of fun coming up with all the different names this time. It's just a shame that once again, only a small set of them are visually new. Still, more of a good thing is always nice to see and Two Point Hospital is great.

Pick up TPH on Humble Store and Steam .