Category: Editorial

Today I thought it would be fun to show you what myself and Samsai have setup for our desks and gaming setups, and see what yours are too.

Now that I've had a chance to play some Saints Row 2 on Linux, here are some thoughts on the performance.

I decided to take a look at this Vulkan nonsense with The Talos Principle, since I hadn't actually tried it yet myself. Here are some benchmarks done on my 980ti. I will look to do some on my 970 if people want to see them too.

Remember Itch.io trying to get their client onto Steam through Greenlight? Well, Valve have killed their hopes of that for now.

The survival game Rust from Facepunch Studios has been updated with a bit of a controversial change. They have added in new models, including female models, but you don't get to pick your gender.

I'm personally sad about this, as I have been following Enemy Starfighter for years. It reminded me of Freespace 2 which I loved. The developer confirmed to me it's no longer coming to Linux officially, but he may team up with a porter in future.

I still see a surprising amount of confusion from people on what Steam games work on Linux. Hopefully this will help clear it all up.

The developer behind Banished, a city builder/survival game coming to Linux has written up their thoughts on Linux. It does make for an interesting read.

7 Days to Die recently released Alpha 14, and with it came broken graphics for Linux gamers. The developers are asking for logs to help them narrow down what's causing it. It sounds very familiar to me.

It seems Valve/HTC are the latest company to release something with Linux support listed right up to release, and then remove mentions of it. This time it's the Vive VR device.

It seems The Witness may one day see a Linux release, although the developer expects to make a loss on it, it may come to Linux "for fun or for ideological purposes".

Shocker, the Facebook owned Oculus Rift VR device has some pretty concerning stuff in its terms and conditions.

Always a shame to hear this, it seems n-space the developers behind Sword Coast Legends have closed up.

Just under a year ago over a hundred developers came together to create and celebrate adventure games. With AdventureJam 2016 looming on the horizon, here's a look back at what made the first event interesting and some of the Linux games to come out of it!

Another month, and another Steam Hardware Survey. Linux is currently sitting at 0.85%, so there's a small drop.

In an amusing turn of events, a developer managed to get their fake game "Watch Paint Dry" onto Steam without Valve ever seeing it.

If you didn't know already, Unity games tend to phone home details of what you're running. They release this data, and it shows Linux is a pretty low percentage of gamers.

Pretty nice news here. Recently Microsoft purchased Xamarin the creators of Mono, and now it will be opened up under the MIT license.

I have double checked this, and it seems to be accurate. Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, and that's a pretty healthy milestone.

The developer of Banished has written an official blog post on the Linux & Mac porting progress, and it's sounding really great.