Latest Articles - Page: 1059

The developers of Game Dev Tycoon have finally detailed the actual reason on why the Linux version isn't yet on Steam and isn't as up to date as the Windows and Mac versions.

At a PC Gaming World talk at PAX Prime 2013 some big name game developers talk down about DirectX and talk up OpenGL, great stuff and the video is within!

The Unvanquished project has hit Alpha 19 which brings in major changes to gameplay to move away from the Tremulous project where they branched off from.

Sloth Patrol is a fast paced twin stick shooter and the most realistic sloth-based video game ever conceived. The game combines elements of bullet-hell shoot em' ups with the frantic action synonymous with twin stick shooters.

Tenshu General is a casual strategy game with a board game look and feel. Set in the time of the samurai in early Japan, players control a Tenshu castle from where they rule their land.

Natural Selection 2 my current favourite FPS/RTS game on Linux has been updated to build 255 which includes a needed fix for Linux. Also time to note their reinforcement program.

The Cheapskate's Corner is back, and surely you are all expecting another burst of sales and bundles like we had last week, right? Well, we hate to break your hopes but that doesn't seem to be the case this time around...

Well folks a lot of you saw this one coming, GOG.com have officially responded to us to state that Linux support just isn't happening anytime soon. UPDATED

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine.

The latest and greatest of 0 A.D. the open source real time strategy game has been released, please welcome Alpha 14 Naukratis! Along side this is their new crowdfunding campaign.

Life Goes On is a comically morbid puzzle platformer game, where you send a series of dauntless medieval knights through a trap-ridden gauntlet, sacrificing them one by one to make progress. Impale a knight on a spike to provide the safe platform needed to cross a pit. Catch another knight on a saw blade so their body falls on a button to solve a puzzle.

MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.

Lenna's Inception is a top-down puzzle-action-adventure game, similar to some of the Gameboy Zelda titles, but with procedurally-generated maps and puzzles, and a post-game sandbox. The alpha is now out for testing.

I managed to get myself a nice early access pass to the new Amnesia game and have been allowed to video it for you, thanks to Simple Screen Recorder I have a setup that now works! Warning: Do not view it if you don't want the first few minutes spoilt, but it's not very long to not spoil much.

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention. Analyze the situation, plan team routes, choose equipment and breach points and coordinate multiple troopers to reach the hostage room before the bad guys get to press that trigger.

So here we are again GOL readers, time for another one of my awful editorials and this time I am asking you/talking at you the glorious community about Wine ports!

Thankfully we have learnt that Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition is still going to happen for Linux, but sadly they still don't have a timeline for it.

Postal 2 the first person game from RunningWithScissors looks like it's getting a totally free DLC! Sweet!

This game mixes several classical gameplay-styles such as Tower Defense, Multi-player cooperation, Destructible world and Economics and it has just had a new update.

The Funding Crowd is here! Here you'll find enough Linux games crowdfunding facts to be the center of attention at your next social gathering, guaranteed.