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Paladins, the team-based shooter seems to work well with Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2019

For those curious about Steam Play and wanting to test it out a little, the free to play fantasy team-based shooter Paladins seems to work rather nicely.

vkQuake2, the project adding Vulkan support to Quake 2 now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2019

At the start of this year, I gave a little mention to vkQuake2, a project which has updated the classic Quake 2 with various improvements including Vulkan support.

Quake 2 now has real-time path tracing with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

If you have one of the more recent NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, here's an interesting project for you to try. Q2VKPT from developer Christoph Schied implements some really quite advanced techniques.

The latest update on Black Mesa shows some impressive improvements coming to this Half-Life recreation

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

Black Mesa, the Half-Life fan-made recreation continues progressing towards finally releasing the delayed Xen levels.

Late last year Quake 2 gained Vulkan support thanks to one dedicated coder

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

It appears we missed this one from December last year, vkQuake2 is Quake 2 amplified with Vulkan support.

Futuristic FPS Interstellar Marines is still alive with Update 28 to feature a new enemy

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2018

Interstellar Marines used to be one of the most promising first-person shooters which sadly died due to a lack of funding. It's limping along, with a new video to show off a new enemy.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had plenty of updates lately, Danger Zone is looking good

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2018

Valve have been quick to respond to feedback and issues with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lately, especially with the Danger Zone Battle Royale mode. In the last week, it's had a few nice updates.

The Black Mesa team have pushed out a new Linux beta

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2018

Black Mesa, the fan-made recreation of Half-Life has a fresh brew available for Linux gamers that should make it a better experience.

The WWI FPS game 'Verdun' just got a big free expansion, new UI in testing

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2018

News coming in from the Western Front, Blackmill Games and M2H have released a big free expansion to their First World War shooter Verdun.

Some thoughts on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s Danger Zone, the new Battle Royale mode

By Liam Dawe, 12 Dec 2018

Now that the dust has settled and I’ve been able to put plenty of time into the new Danger Zone mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, I have some more thoughts.

The fun indie FPS 'Ballistic Overkill' adds a new amusing game mode called Juggernaut

By Liam Dawe, 12 Dec 2018

While not as popular as it once was, Ballistic Overkill is still a reasonably good online shooter that I've spent a lot of time in. The latest update sounds quite amusing.

For now, the experimental Linux (and Mac) port of ARMA 3 will not see any more updates

By Liam Dawe, 11 Dec 2018

Sad news for those who purchased ARMA 3 due to the experimental Linux (and Mac) version, as Bohemia Interactive have announced a halt to the updates for it.

The developer of the retro FPS 'DUSK' has confirmed a Linux build is on the way

By Liam Dawe, 11 Dec 2018

While we knew DUSK would be getting a Linux version, it's always good to see confirmation that's up to date and positive.

John Romero has announced a free unofficial spiritual successor to The Ultimate DOOM's 4th episode

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

John Romero, one of the co-founders of id Software has revealed he's been working on SIGIL, a free megawad for the original 1993 DOOM.

Unvanquished, the free and open source shooter has a huge new release now out

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

After being quiet for some time, the Unvanquished team is back and they have quite a lot to show off in the new release of their free and open source shooter.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive introduces a Battle Royale mode, goes free to play

By Liam Dawe, 6 Dec 2018

Valve have released Danger Zone, a Battle Royale mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive along with it going free to play.

Insurgency: Sandstorm releases soon, Linux support still confirmed with no ETA

By Liam Dawe, 5 Dec 2018

Insurgency: Sandstorm, the team-based, tactical FPS that's acting as a sequel to the first standalone Insurgency title is releasing soon. Linux is coming, but no ETA.