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Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

By Liam Dawe,
As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.

Dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike RPG 'Iratus: Lord of the Dead' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Iratus: Lord of the Dead from developer Unfrozen and publisher Daedalic Entertainment has now left Early Access, with it full Linux support is now also up.

It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.

Verdant Village puts a high-fantasy spin on Stardew Valley styled gameplay - try it free

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development with it classed as being in an "alpha state", Verdant Village seems like a sweet and promising high fantasy alternative to Stardew Valley with some new themes.

You can play XCOM 2 free until April 30 and you definitely should try it

By Liam Dawe,
XCOM 2, likely one of my absolutely all-time favourite strategy games can be played for free until April 30.

Simple local-multiplayer PvP real-time strategy title 'Rover Wars' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Rover Wars strips down the RTS genre to some of the basics and makes it a competitive local multiplayer game, it's actually pretty darn fun and it's out now.

New release of Steam Audio and the next Steam Labs project is up focused on game searching

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to improve Steam at quite a rapid pace lately. Recently, they not only released a new beta of Steam Audio but they also put up a new experiment.

Distro News - Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa', Ubuntu MATE and other flavours released

By Liam Dawe,
Today is the big day for Canonical and their partners. Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' is officially released as their new LTS (Long Term Support) edition along with other desktop flavours like Ubuntu MATE.

Prison Architect getting a free 'Cleared for Transfer' expansion on May 14

By Liam Dawe,
Today, Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven announced that Prison Architect will be getting a free expansion on May 14 named 'Cleared for Transfer'.

Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.

Literary mystery adventure 'Sarawak' announced, developed on Linux - releasing early 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to do a deep-dive into a new text-adventure? Sarawak definitely rises high on my curiosity scale with gameplay split between interactive narrative choices and image-based puzzles.

The classic Escape Velocity: Override is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override

By Liam Dawe,
Escape Velocity: Override, something of a classic from the 90s is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override and it's seeking funding on Kickstarter.

Linux game launcher 'GameHub' has a brand new release, with game tweaking support

By Liam Dawe,
GameHub is another game launcher available for Linux, one we've talked briefly about before, and it just recently had quite a nice looking update.

Gain fame as well as fortune as Tropico 6 goes social with the Spitter DLC that's out today

By Liam Dawe,
Tropico 6 always leans on the side of silliness and it appears the latest DLC for this strategy / city-builder is taking aim at social networks. The Tropico 6 - Spitter DLC is out today.

Get ready to putt as 'Golf With Your Friends' releases on May 19

By Liam Dawe,
Blacklight Interactive and Team17 have announced that their super fun casual sports game, Golf With Your Friends, is leaving Early Access on May 19.

Dead Cells expands with the 'Bestiary Update' adding in six new enemies and new item affixes

By Liam Dawe,
Evil Empire & Motion Twin have updated the excellent Dead Cells again, after release a Half-Life themed patch last month, the larger 'Bestiary Update' is out now.

Latest Steam Beta has Linux fixes plus (speculation) possible Steam Rewards, Subscriptions and Cloud Gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, Valve released another fresh Steam Beta and it does include some handy Linux fixes but it seems they have some more exciting changes upcoming.

With a demon trapped in a weird tiny body, the 2.5D platformer 'WarriOrb' is out on April 28

By Liam Dawe,
Play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body - a talking ball with agile limbs. Weird right? WarriOrb releases in full on April 28.

Old source code for Valve games CS:GO and TF2 ended up leaked online

By Liam Dawe,
Seems the steampipes sprung a bit of a leak recently, as it's been confirmed that both Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 had their source code put up online.

There's now over 6,000 Linux games on Steam plus thousands more playable with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Seven years ago, Valve officially released the Steam client for the Linux desktop and since then the amount of games playable on Linux has continued rising. Thanks to Steam Play Proton, that's grown drastically too.