After some delay, the latest DLC and patch for XCOM 2 is now out for Linux. Shen’s Last Gift adds mech units to the mix, to better fight the insidious alien threat.
Maia version 0.57 is now available and it brings diseases and conditions which you will need to diagnose and treat.
Stellaris is about to get bigger with a teaser of a DLC named the Plantoids Species Pack and they have a trailer.
Team17 have announced that Worms W.M.D will release on August 23rd, but the Linux version is going to be post-launch.
Defect is a very cool idea for a spaceship combat game. You keep building a new ship to take on new challenges and your crew keep stealing it so you have to face it in combat.
I feel bad for the Battlestation: Harbinger developer, as I think it's a pretty nice name but another developer has coined the "Battlestation" term so they have to change their name. They will also be doing a free update soon.
We've been kicking around some ideas about doing a livestream of one of Paradox's grand strategy games. There's a pretty big fan base among GOL readers, so it would be interesting to see how much interest there is and what people would want.
Shen’s Last Gift is the next DLC available for XCOM 2 that brings in mech units to help you fight the alien menace.
After speaking to the developer of The Spatials: Galactology, it seems they are now doing a day-1 Linux release.
This is an expanded and reimagined version of the management sim, The Spatials. It’s yet to be released but the developers have confirmed that a Linux version is in the works.
I love XCOM 2, it's probably my favourite strategy game right now. The problem is, it's still a bit of a buggy mess, a lovable mess mind you. Here's some mods I picked and tested to make it feel better.
Crush Your Enemies from Vile Monarch and Gambitious Digital Entertainment looks like a pretty fun little RTS game and it's coming to Linux on July 13th.
A new video for Civilization VI shows off the English, but they don't seem to want to talk about the Linux version at the moment.
Company of Heroes 2 has received a patch today, it should fix the issue with it looking like you gain no experience points during matches.
Factorio is an absolute gem of a sandbox game and I love it. It's another game I'm terrible scared to load up as I will lose days to it, this new update has me inching closer to the play button.
I've been scared to click that play button on Stellaris recently, as it sucks up so much time it's crazy. The patch named Asimov has been released!
The developer of Banished has written up another blog post about porting Banished to OpenGL for the Mac and Linux ports, and it sounds like the Mac OpenGL implementation was holding things up.
The Linux-friendly Swedish developers are celebrating a million copies of Europa Universalis IV sold with a collection of traditional music that they’re giving away. Be sure to claim it before July 4th!
So I've been playing through XCOM 2 again, but now with the Alien Hunters DLC enabled and my god it's frustrating.
A developer of Ashes of the Singularity has stated very clearly that both Vulkan and Linux/SteamOS are still planned for the big RTS game.