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Steam hits another record of over 18.5 million concurrent users online

By liamdawe, 7 January 2018 at 12:22 am UTC (18 Comments)
Steam continues to get bigger with another milestone being reached! Yesterday Steam shot passed 18 million concurrent users online.

Questr blends together a dating-app swipe mechanic with an RPG, it's weird

By liamdawe, 6 January 2018 at 11:32 pm UTC (0 Comments)
Swipe right to invite people to adventure with you! Questr is a somewhat amusing mix of RPG party-based gameplay, with jokes aimed at dating apps.

VK9, the project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan reached another milestone

By liamdawe, 6 January 2018 at 10:16 pm UTC (6 Comments)
In late December last year, the developer of the VK9 project emailed us about hitting another milestone with their project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan.

Wine 3.0 RC5 released, it's a pretty quiet one

By liamdawe, 6 January 2018 at 10:05 pm UTC (1 Comments)
Wine 3.0 RC5 was released yesterday and it's a very quiet release in terms of bug fixes, but here it is anyway.

The developer of 'Super Indie Karts' is planning on a Linux build for this retro racer

By liamdawe, 6 January 2018 at 9:47 pm UTC (12 Comments)
Super Indie Karts is an Early Access retro 16-bit style kart racing game, it looks really quite good and the developer is attempting to get it on Linux.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 5 January 2018 at 5:28 pm UTC (3 Comments)
Hopefully you heeded my warning and retained your eye-sight through the New Years because you know have another opportunity to put those eye balls into use to watch our weekly Friday Livestream! Games will be played and fun will hopefully be had, all live on Linux!

Critical Annihilation is an explosion-heavy and stupidly fun twin-stick shooter

By liamdawe, 5 January 2018 at 3:26 pm UTC (4 Comments)
Critical Annihilation is a twin-stick shooter where every single thing is made out of tiny blocks, it also happens to be an incredibly satisfying experience.

Sci-fi first-person exploration game 'The Station' launch delayed, Linux at release confirmed

By liamdawe, 5 January 2018 at 1:35 pm UTC (6 Comments)
The Station is an upcoming sci-fi first-person exploration game surrounding the discovery of a sentient alien civilization, it's had a slight release delay but the good news is that Linux will be a same-day release.

We have over 150 beta keys of the co-op MMO 'Dead Maze' to give away

By liamdawe, 5 January 2018 at 1:09 pm UTC (30 Comments)
Do you like MMOs but find the PvP combat to be the worst part? Dead Maze might solve that for you. It's a massively multiplayer cooperative game where you try to restore civilization.

Like Roguelikes? How about Tower Defense? Dead Ground merges them together

By liamdawe, 5 January 2018 at 10:10 am UTC (4 Comments)
Another night endlessly browsing for new Linux games and I came across Dead Ground, a game that blends a Roguelike with Tower Defense.

The Talos Principle going Fusion, Croteam dropping OpenGL & Serious Sam 4 still coming

By liamdawe, 5 January 2018 at 9:45 am UTC (43 Comments)
A bit of Croteam news to start the day with and there's multiple interesting items to go over in regards to their games.

SteamOS has a fresh beta update with some major package updates

By liamdawe, 4 January 2018 at 11:13 pm UTC (42 Comments)
Valve have updated the SteamOS beta once again, this time they're pulling in some major package updates to give a better experience.

The Jackbox Party Pack 2 & 3 are both now in Beta for Linux

By liamdawe, 4 January 2018 at 7:17 pm UTC (4 Comments)
Much like with the fourth version, the developer working on the Linux ports of The Jackbox Party Pack 2 & 3 has allowed me to announce their Beta for Linux today.

Ultraball, a free multiplayer sci-fi action sports game will be coming to Linux

By liamdawe, 4 January 2018 at 2:35 pm UTC (6 Comments)
Are you a fan of games like Rocket League? Ultraball might be your game. A free multiplayer sci-fi action sports game with players wearing robotic armour.

Streets of Rogue has to be one of the funniest co-op gameplay experiences I've had lately

By liamdawe, 4 January 2018 at 1:53 pm UTC (2 Comments)
Street of Rogue is a fantastic game, especially when played in co-op, what our livestream viewers jokingly called a 'co-nope' experience.
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