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Putting a Linux game on Steam: Missing Executable - a common pitfall for game devs

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2019

Since this comes up so often when testing games for developers and surprisingly often for newly released Linux games, I thought it might help to give developers a quick hint.

Hard sci-fi space sim Rings of Saturn has entered Early Access on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2019

After launching on itch.io with a hybrid Early Access/Crowdfunding model, the hard sci-fi space sim Rings of Saturn is now available with Linux support on Steam in Early Access.

Co-op submarine adventure roguelike "We Need To Go Deeper" officially released

By Liam Dawe, 5 Aug 2019

After over two years of Early Access, the silly co-op roguelike submarine adventure We Need To Go Deeper has released.

Moonlighter - Between Dimensions DLC, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2019

Moonlighter - Between Dimensions DLC, the expansion to the hit mix of dungeon crawling action and shopkeeping released recently and now I've blasted through here's a few thoughts.

The Between Dimensions DLC for Moonlighter is out now, over 1 million players

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2019

Moonlighter, the curious mix of gameplay that has you be both a shopkeeper and a dungeon crawling adventurer has a new DLC out named Between Dimensions.

Looks like supporting multiple platforms has been worth it for Rings of Saturn

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2019

Rings of Saturn from Kodera Software is something I've written about a couple of times and it seems like supporting Linux and Mac has been worth it for the developer.

Top-down hard sci-fi space game "Rings of Saturn" to launch in Early Access next month

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2019

Kodera Software have released a new trailer for their hard sci-f game Rings of Saturn, with a release date teaser for Steam Early Access included.

Hard sci-fi space game 'Rings of Saturn' is now doing an Early Access crowdfunding mix on itch

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2019

Rings of Saturn, a hard sci-fi space simulation game made with the FOSS Godot Engine is now opening up Early Access builds on itch, with a slight difference.

The action-RPG where you're also a shopkeeper 'Moonlighter' sold 500K copies, new DLC announced

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2019

Moonlighter from developer Digital Sun and publisher 11 bit studios seems to be doing well, as they've managed to sell over 500K copies. To keep it going, a new DLC named Between Dimensions has been announced.

The Steam Winter Sale is now live, prepare your wallet

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2018

It's that time of the year again, Steam are now doing their own Winter Sale and there's obviously a lot of cheap games available for Linux.

Rings of Saturn, the hard sci-fi top-down space sim delayed until next year, demo now available

By Liam Dawe, 25 Oct 2018

If you fancy trying to pilot a ship in between hundreds of tiny little asteroids now is your chance, Rings of Saturn might be delayed until next year but the demo seems to work well.

Action-RPG 'Moonlighter' has a juicy free Adventure Update, now live on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2018

It's time to close up shop and go on another run through the dungeons as Moonlighter has a free update now out.

Rings of Saturn is a hard sci-fi, top-down space simulator coming soon to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2018

Space sim Rings of Saturn was announced earlier this month, with a promise of a realistic top-down experience and it actually looks surprisingly good.

Extreme downhill freeriding game 'Descenders' updated with the Ring of Fire update

By Liam Dawe, 8 Aug 2018

The latest update to Descenders adds in the fifth environment to play through named Volcano, which gives you a different way to play.

Rise of Insanity is a psychological horror that ends up rather boring

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2018

I recently took a look at the psychological horror Rise of Insanity and after finishing it, I've been left rather underwhelmed.

Slapping minions, defeating heroes and being delightfully evil in Dungeons 3, my thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2017

Combining elements from many different genres, Dungeons 3 has arrived for you to spread evil across the world. Dungeons 3 was a same-day release for Linux, but how does it feel to to be bad?

Flinthook, a fast action-platformer with roguelike elements releases day-1 for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2017

Flinthook is yet another action platformer that throws in some roguelike elements and it has released with day-1 Linux support.

LG are making a VR headset, to be shown off at Valve's GDC booth

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

And we have another VR HMD contender in the rings folks. LG have announced they will be showing off their own VR HMD at GDC with Valve.

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Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

Shadow of War has been officially announced as a sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Hopefully Feral Interactive will grab the porting rights again here, as Shadow of Mordor was fantastic.

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Tyranny, the massive new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment releases today day-1 on Linux, our review

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2016

Tyranny is the huge new RPG from Obsidian Entertainment that myself and BTRE had the great pleasure of playing before release thanks to my contacts at Paradox Interactive, so here’s our thoughts.

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