Gaming On Linux

Stardew Valley 1.1 beta is now available with Linux support. It has a bunch of new maps and plenty of new content.

This is pretty exciting, Unity have released a preview update build of the Unity engine with the Vulkan renderer.

Feral Interactive have ported another set of cracking good games. This time we have Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution to fill our strategy needs!

We Are The Dwarves, an action-based tactical adventure is now available for you GOG fans in their usual DRM free form.

The Minecraft developers have announced The Exploration Update and they have already released a development release for it.

Failbetter Games have announced their next game titled 'Sunless Skies' as the follow-on from 'Sunless Sea'. Linux will be supported.

'Osiris: New Dawn' is a very impressive looking mix of multiplayer survival, adventure, action and so on. The developers have mentioned that a Linux version is on the table.

InXile Entertainment have formally announced that Wasteland 3 is a thing and it will go to crowdfunding site Fig to secure development funding.

Stash: No Loot Left Behind is the new MMO from Frogdice that features turn based grid combat, player customizable housing and more.

I wrote about 'Pavilion' months ago, so it's pleasing to see it release as promised with day-1 Linux support. The game has some serious style to it.

Thanks to a GOL supporter I've had a chance to check out 'Niche - a genetics survival game' and breed my tribe of weird looking animals.

Clickteam are the company behind some really cool tools like Fusion, previously called Multimedia Fusion. They did an AMA today where a developer noted their Fusion 3 editor is running on Linux and other platforms.

Clustertruck released today and I've had a chance to play some of it before the release, here's some thoughts.

I've seen some posts on reddit and across the wider net about Steam hitting around 2,000 games for Linux. The truth is the number is actually quite a lot higher.

Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.