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Massive Starbound update released, tons of new stuff

By Liam Dawe,
Starbound was already a huge and interesting game, and now they have released another massive update. With new combat, vehicles, new unique monsters and more.

Dying Light: Enhanced Edition announced, sounds excellent

By Liam Dawe,
I'm a big fan of Dying Light, even with it being a bit iffy at times for me, but the general gameplay is fantastic. The developers have announced a newer Dying Light: Enhanced Edition is coming

Dreamfall Chapters review

By Segata Sanshiro,
Dreamfall Chapters Book 4 has been released, accompanied by a major engine update and the time seems apt for a review. I previously covered the game’s performance improvements, and thanks to those, the game can now be discussed on its own merits rather than get bogged down in the numerous performance issues.

The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians, a surprisingly great dungeon crawler

By Liam Dawe,
If you like first-person dungeon crawling, I seriously suggest you take a look at The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians.

Hybrid Beasts, a quality looking turn-based action game like Worms coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Hybrid Beasts was sent to me on twitter earlier, and after watching the trailer I'm pretty much sold. It looks like it could be good fun.

Dreamfall Chapters Book 4 Released Along With Engine Upgrade

By Segata Sanshiro,
Norwegian developer Red Thread Games has released Book 4 of Dreamfall Chapters, and along with it a massive engine update from Unity 4 to Unity 5 which intends on fixing many of the performance woes suffered by the game.

Feral about AMD driver support

By Eike,
Reading through the Feral Interactive Facebook page, I stumbled upon this post, which is the most elaborate about the topic by Feral I know of about AMD support.

Goat Simulator appears to be getting a new DLC, the trailer is good

By Liam Dawe,
Goat Simulator, ahh what a strange game it is, stranger that people actually buy it and like it! Personally not a fan, as it's too stupid for me, but the new trailer caught my interest.

Garry Newman, developer of Rust & Garry's Mod on supporting Linux, possibly not for future games

By Liam Dawe,
I may not like Garry Newman, or his games, but I know they are important to some people. I thought it was worth highlighting this.

A developer on Tesla Effect details why the Linux port never arrived

By Liam Dawe,
Tesla Effect was a pretty interesting looking game, but sadly the Linux release never happened and not because the developer didn't try.

Third release candidate of Wine version 1.8 is out

By sobkas,
Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.

Friday Livestream Is Here at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
There are many ways to describe a Friday and I'm obliged to do so nearly every week. To be honest, my imagination is slowly starting to run out of interesting ways to welcome you to the Friday Livestream so I'll keep it simple this time: you are invited to watch me play video games and talk about stuff for 2 hours. Welcome!

Double Fine has launched crowdfunding campaign to fund Psychonauts 2

By flesk,
The story-driven 3D platformer could get a most excellent sequel, as Double Fine has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig to secure the funds needed to revisit one of their most beloved franchises.

Ruzar - The Life Stone, a first person dungeon crawler released for SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Ruzar - The Life Stone is a well reviewed first person dungeon crawler (think Legend of Grimrock if you need a comparison) now on SteamOS & Linux.

Valhalla Hills, a rather unique city-builder strategy game now on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I only learnt about Valhalla Hills recently, as they stealth-added a Linux version just before the official release. GOG sent over a key for this interesting Unreal Engine city-builder strategy game, so I took a look.

Bound By Flame, an impressive looking action RPG now on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Great news, Bound By Flame an interesting looking action RPG from developer Spiders and publisher Focus Home Interactive. I asked for a port in 2014, and now it's here!

GRID Autosport releasing for SteamOS & Linux on December 10th

By Liam Dawe,
Helmets at the ready, as GRID Autosport will be screeching onto our favourite SteamOS & Linux platform this December.

Basemark announced Basemark GPU Vulkan, a commercial benchmarking software

By Liam Dawe,
I am very hopeful for Vulkan, and the future of it seems bright with lots of people already working with it. Another company named Basemark announced last month they will be release a commercial benchmarking tool for Vulkan.

Speculation: It looks like the Saints Row series will all launch together on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
We all love a bit of speculation now and then (okay, some really don't, but I do), and to me it looks like the Saints Row series will all launch on Linux together.

GOL Cast: Saving Ancardia from Evil in Ancient Domains of Mystery

By Samsai,
There are lots of so called roguelites on Steam but recently a real roguelike classic called ADOM, or Ancient Domains of Mystery, made its way to Steam. Let's go check it out!