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OVERLOAD from the original Descent developers has been funded

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for fans of six-degree-of-freedom-shooter games, as OVERLOAD has been officially funded on Kickstarter.

A new Steam Client Beta adds new Steam Controller features

By Liam Dawe,
I do love my Steam Controller, and Valve really are doing some amazing work with it. This latest update adds a pretty big new feature.

Moving Hazard, an interesting Unreal Engine FPS where zombies become a weapon

By Liam Dawe,
Moving Hazard has captured my interest, and the developers mention that they definitely want to release on Linux. Time to show our support for it.

Knights and Merchants strategy game to return to Linux using Wine, now in beta

By Liam Dawe,
Knights and Merchants was originally a LinuxGamePublishing (RIP) title, and sadly the port source code must have gone with it. Topware Interactive now have a Linux beta available on Steam that uses Wine.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition patch out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
There's a pretty big patch out for Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition that fixes a number of issues, and shows Larian is supporting their game well.

Ashes of the Singularity developer thinks Vulkan will make Linux gaming viable

By Liam Dawe,
PC Perspective spoke to Dan Baker from Oxide Games about Ashes of the Singularity and the developer seemed pretty happy with Vulkan and what it could mean for Linux.

Yes, it's indeed Friday Livestream time today at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Glorious Friday has arrived and that naturally means livestreaming! The Friday Livestream will bring you the most mediocre Linux gaming to date live through the magical Internet tubes. So, prepare your receivers and tune to the GOL's frequency for we are going total Tux on this stuff!

Total War: WARHAMMER might not see a day-1 Linux release

By Liam Dawe,
Could be sad news ahead for strategy fans, as the original Total War: WARHAMMER announcement listed SteamOS in the platform list, but their latest messages don't seem too confident.

Croteam releases Serious Engine version 1.10 as free software

By Samsai,
Here's something interesting for the fans of libre software. Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up the source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.

Cossacks 3 shows off old style diplomacy in a new teaser video

By Liam Dawe,
I am really excited to play Cossacks 3 as I love real time strategy games, and the graphics do look great. This new video is a bit of fun showing off "diplomacy".

Release window and publisher announced for hardcore puzzle platformer The Land of Eyas

By flesk,
According to a new press release, The Land of Eyas will be published by Rising Star Games and will be available this summer.

Rocket League due on SteamOS & Linux very soon [Updated]

By Liam Dawe,
The time of waiting is nearly over, or so they say. A member of the Rocket League team mentioned on the Steam forum it will be due very soon at the end of Q1 2016.

Ubuntu 16.04 dropping the AMD Catalyst/fglrx driver

By madmachinations,
Canonical have decided to deprecate the fglrx driver in Ubuntu 16.04. This is hardly surprising news as fglrx, which has always been renowned for being a pain, has steadily becoming more and more of a problem on modern Linux distributions. Even Debian with its tentatively updated packages has surpassed the official system requirements for fglrx.

XCOM 2 Anarchy’s Children DLC releasing March 17, come see some screenshots

By Liam Dawe,
Is the customization in XCOM 2 not enough for you? XCOM 2 Anarchy’s Children will add over 100 new options. Come check out some shots we have.

GOL has been updated, few new bits to be aware of

By Liam Dawe,
Sorry if I broke anything. I have been working for weeks on some new features and general code fixes and clean-ups for the website.

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised

By Liam Dawe,
Great news! The update to Arma 3 on Linux has landed, bringing us up to 1.54. Not quite the newest, but better than what we had.

Interstellar Marines seeking funding again as they let staff go

By Liam Dawe,
Interstellar Marines was a seriously promising FPS game that would have single player, co-op play and online versus multiplayer. Sadly, they have had to let staff go and rely on interns right now as they seek more funding.

Darkest Dungeon Linux port is practically ready, releasing soon

By Liam Dawe,
The Darkest Dungeon developers have said the Linux port is practically done, and we should be able to play it soon.

Point-and-click adventure Kelvin and the Infamous Machine released in Early Access

By flesk,
The game is available DRM free via Humble Bundle and on Steam, and is already playable from start to finish, but is being kept in Early Access while full English voiceovers and text translations are being added.

Want to see me take on Feral Interactive in Company of Heroes 2? Tomorrow it is!

By Liam Dawe,
Tomorrow at 11AM UTC I will be facing off against Matt from Feral Interactive for the second time at Company of Heroes 2, will he beat me this time? Who knows, but I'm going to have fun and livestream it anyway!