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Black Mesa, the very popular fan-made recreation of Half-Life is now on Linux in beta

By Liam Dawe,
It's finally here! Black Mesa is now officially available for Linux in beta form. It looks really great!

Why GNU/Linux ports can be less performant, a more in-depth answer

By ,
Community member 'mirv' has given his thoughts in addition to the previous editorial by Liam, about why Linux ports can perform worse than Windows versions.

Meadow, an odd 'forum in games clothing' is now available with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Meadow, from the developers of Shelter is a purely online game where there's no objectives, and it just sounds weird.

Looks like Mojang will be supporting the new Minecraft launcher on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Good news Minecraft fans! Mojang seem to have changed their minds on Linux support for the new Minecraft launcher they are working on.

'Discovering Colors - Animals', a cheap colouring game for kids

By Liam Dawe,
Discovering Colors - Animals is a cheap kids game about colouring and it recently gained a Linux version. As a parent, I'm really happy to see more kids games on Steam.

Games to play on Linux this Halloween, my top choices

By Liam Dawe,
So Halloween is fast approaching, and you want to play something scary, here’s some good ones to try out.

Trackless & Code 7, two next-gen text adventures currently being crowdfunded

By Cheeseness,
Code 7 and Trackless explore two very different interpretations of what a "modern text adventure" could be, through graphics, audio and new spins on old styles of input.

Mad Max released for Linux, port report and review available

By Liam Dawe,
Mad Max is the latest Linux port from Feral Interactive, probably one of the titles I have been most excited about so hopefully it lives up to the promise.

'Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler', a great looking point-and-click adventure is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
'Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler' is a really great looking point-and-click adventure that just arrived on Linux.

The developers of 'Can't Drive This' will donate all Linux revenue from October to charity

By Liam Dawe,
The game 'Can't Drive This' only recently came to Linux, and the developers have decided that 100% of October's revenue made from Linux sales will go to a penguin charity.

Small update to the PC info system today, you can now get a 'forum signature image'

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your pc details and username.

Through the Woods no longer coming to Linux due to platform-specific technology

By Liam Dawe,
This is really annoying. 'Through the Woods', a very promising psychological horror is no longer coming to Linux and was only announced two weeks before release due to platform-specific technology.

Recursed, a mind bending puzzle platformer that's actually rather good is now out for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Recursed, is a new indie puzzle platformer that might just warp your mind a little bit. I've been playing it and don't let the graphical style fool you, it's quite good.

Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man released, brings major changes

By BTRE,
Paradox Development Studio’s popular empire-building grand strategy game has gotten its latest expansion. Rights of Man and the plethora of free features in the accompanying patch do much to change the game.

Race cars with the worst handling ever made online in ForeveRacers

By Liam Dawe,
My god, ForeveRacers might be my new favourite stupid thing. It's an online racer where the cars are all top heavy physics wobbly things.

Hunger Dungeon, a free to play 1-6 player online battle arena, it’s kinda fun

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing my effort to find fun games to play and to help you sift through the junk, I recently tried out ‘Hunger Dungeon’. It’s a free to play 1-6 player online battle arena, and it’s not too bad.

Lord of Rigel, a new 4x strategy game will support Linux from Rhombus Studios & Iceberg Interactive

By Liam Dawe,
I do love a good 4x strategy game, Master of Orion 2 was my first and I fell in love. It's a genre not too well served on Linux, but Lord of Rigel looks like it might be good.

7 Days to Die massive update released, Linux version seems to work okay now

By Liam Dawe,
7 Days to Die is the Kickstarted zombie survival game from The Fun Pimps, colourful history between me and them aside, the game has come a long way. This major update has done a lot for it.

Looks like Homefront: The Revolution might be gearing up for a Linux release now

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Homefront: The Revolution is seeing some fresh Linux-related activity on SteamDB, with it being giving a launch configuration.

Crowdfunding roundup with internet sim Hypnospace Outlaw, 3D point & click Woven and more

By flesk,
In spite of the radio silence of late, there have been several interesting crowdfunding campaigns for Linux lately, including Dropsy creator Jay Tholen's Hypnospace Outlaw and the vibrant 3D point-and-click Woven.
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