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Need art for your games? Asset Forge and public domain Kenney assets may help

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2017

While 'asset flips' are becoming a common occurrence, pre-made art assets are still a valuable resource when used correctly. Asset Forge and Kenney assets might be quite useful!

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Space sandbox game 'Avorion' updated to include the ability to design and build fighters

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2017

What space sandbox game all about building big and awesome spaceships wouldn't be complete without fighters? Avorion now has them too!

Space Pirates And Zombies 2 now has a Linux beta available

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2017

Space Pirates And Zombies 2 is finally available for Linux in the form of a beta. The developers confirmed it would be on Linux and they have kept their word.

There's now a Linux build of Unity 2017.3, with a new installer

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2017

Unity 2017.3 is now available on Linux and it comes with a fresh install experience to match the Windows & Mac versions.

The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day, a superhero text adventure with first person controls, re-launched

By Cheeseness, 26 Sep 2017

First person/text adventure hybrid, The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day has been re-launched with all-new audio, gamepad support, improved controls and more!

Organics sighted, marking for destruction - Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn released along with a free patch

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2017

Want to play Stellaris as a robotic civilization? Your time is now! Rise up and overthrow those pesky organics and lead your synthetics to conquer the galaxy.

There's so many Linux games on sale right now, it's a good time if you're skint

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2017

Suffering from a lack of funds and games? The good news is that there's a lot of games on sale. The bad news? You're going to be even more skint.

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Stylish FPS 'Morphite' released without Linux support, but it's coming

By Liam Dawe, 20 Sep 2017

Sadly, Morphite has seen a delay with the Linux version. Thankfully, the developer was quick to respond and it's still coming.

Blowing everyone up in EVERSPACE, my thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2017

After a long wait, EVERSPACE arrived for Linux recently, here’s my thoughts of this rather intense space shooter.

Protect your Sheep in 'Operation Sheep Defense', a fast-paced Tower Defense game that's actually good

By Liam Dawe, 18 Sep 2017

In Operation Sheep Defense you are tasked with defending your sheep, it's a super cheap indie game that genuinely surprised me.

Kingdoms and Castles has a pretty decent free content update

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2017

Kingdoms and Castles, the cute city-building sim from Lion Shield, LLC has a big free update. It sounds like the game will be much better off with it too.

Save the human race as a giant, indestructible, and incredibly clumsy robot in 'Jettomero: Hero of the Universe'

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2017

Here's a game for the weekend that looks really quite unique. In Jettomero: Hero of the Universe, you play as a giant, indestructible, and incredibly clumsy robot who's trying to save the human race.

Wine 2.17 released, fixes an issue with Skyrim and CSMT and more new stuff

By Liam Dawe, 15 Sep 2017

The next Wine development build is now officially available bringing in many fixes overall, here's what's new.

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Mesa now has more games in the whitelist for threaded GL

By Liam Dawe, 14 Sep 2017

The threaded GL dispatch code to speed up some Linux games currently uses a Whitelist and now more games have been added.

Astral Traveler, the runner-style racer has released for Linux, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2017

Astral Traveler, the brand new runner-style racer from Dragon Slumber and Brainoid that released with day-1 Linux support. Here’s my review.

Space station sim 'The Spatials: Galactology' has a huge update with planetary bases

By Liam Dawe, 12 Sep 2017

I was quite impressed with The Spatials: Galactology when I tried this Early Access space station sim in August of last year. It's had a lot of new stuff since then too.