I really do love open source game engines. Keeping older titles alive on new platforms and bringing bug fixes with them. This time Dungeon Keeper II gets the treatment.
While Khronos already put up the actual slides from Vulkan DevDay UK we didn't have any audio or video, now we do. Much nicer than reading slides by themselves.
Valve have announced that they will be running another Steam Dev Days event this October in Seattle, USA.
This is one series I had hoped we would get and it looks like we will be. HITMAN (the new 2016 version) looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux.
It may have taken me all evening to do, but that's an evening well spent. The Sales Page will now be importing sales from Steam.
Minecraft is still going at a slow pace. Minecraft 1.10 has just been released which includes new blocks and mobs.
The cutesy artillery game has added Linux support in its ongoing beta test. Development apparently still has a ways to go which makes this early support extra nice.
Fans of shooting stuff up with mechs will have to wait to play this action game on Linux. The developer has explained why this Early Access game isn’t yet ready for penguin enjoyment.
Star Vikings is a new casual puzzle/RPG title from the developers who gave us Chroma Squad. It actually looks pretty slick from the trailer.
Blacksea Odyssey is a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot'em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. I've played it myself a number of times and I think it's quality fun.
It's official, now it's summer. We have the GOG summer sale that has officially begun and masses of games are discounted.
Albion Online is a pretty great start for a Linux-native MMO, but one of the problems has been the rather plain looking map. The developers are working on a bigger and more varied map and did a video to highlight the work.
Captain Forever Remix is a really cool spaceship building and combat game that has supported Linux for a while, but it's now finished and it's out.
GLFW 3.2 has just recently released and it's a major update. It adds support for Vulkan surface creation, window mode switching, window maximization, window input focus control, window size and aspect ratio limits, human-readable key names, window icons and more.
For those developers and users still wanting more information about Vulkan and developing with it, Khronos has put the slides available online from their recent developer day in the UK.
I love spaceship building and combat games and Defect looks exactly like the kind of game I've wanted. I've tried it and I think it's awesome.
I love racing games and I especially love a good combat racer, so Racing Apex looks like it's right up my street. The developer has confirmed they will be putting the demo on Linux too.
Natural Selection 2 is continuing its rapid pace of trying to bring players back. They have released update 301 with a few new goodies.
Volition, the developer of Saints Row IV is working on a new game called Agents of Mayhem. A GOL supporter asked me to get in touch with them about a Linux version, so I did.
Need some more Lara in your life? Your wish may soon be granted as it looks like Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris may be coming to Linux.