Category: Editorial

Time is now up to add games, so you may now vote for whatever game you loved the most last year. Next year will work in a very different way too. You don't have long to vote!

Sadly, this year I shall not be out getting merry on rum as I have my little one now living with me, but it does mean I am here to post stuff.

Neil Trevett from Nvidia shared a presentation about what's going on in the world of graphics APIs. Presentation included in our post on it.

For those of you that celebrate it Merry Christmas, I know not everyone celebrates it, so if you don't we hope if you're on holiday that it's a good one.

If like me you are signed up with the Feral Interactive newsletter you probably saw a big nod to us, but if you didn't we have screencaps for you.

It's official, we are doing our very first GOTY awards for Linux games. Nominations are currently open and will be for a few days before voting begins, so be sure to add every game you think deserves it.

Surprise! This new design has been in the works since around the end of September 2014 and we have sent previews around to people a few times, but it's now live!

Minecraft: Story Mode is a brand new adventure being created around Minecraft, but sadly Linux has been left out in the cold it seems.

Not something we cover very often, but it seems the EU is introducing new rules that could really ruin things for indie developers. It could also cause price changes across many stores.

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but it seems some Linux websites are claiming that Fantasy XIII-2 will come to Linux. Sadly, this is not actually the case.

Civilization: Beyond Earth has been sent to approval for the final checks on the Linux version, so it's time to prepare for just one more turn.

Last month, professional and enthusiast developers put their skills against the clock for the 2014 7DFPS challenge. We take a look at why it's important, hear from some Linux using developers, and list the games currently providing Linux builds.

If you are a regular visitor of this site, you probably want your Steam purchase to be counted as a Linux sale. But how does Steam actually consider you to be a Linux buyer? It's trickier than you think.

At the recent PlayStation Experience event, Double Fine announced a release date for Grim Fandango and that a "special edition" of Day of the Tentacle is on its way.

After the BioShock Infinite SteamDB entry was found by Linux users we've been debating who's going to be behind the port and it might very well be Virtual Programming. Prepare for some speculation.

Looks like Bad Juju's acquisition of Desura will pay off for us Linux gamers soon. They tweeted to let people know the Desura client updates are currently in testing!

Quadro Delta has put up a web page to tease their upcoming game and are promising to reveal more details as people guess the name of the upcoming game.

One of the Minecraft developers shared a graph today of different launches of Minecraft across PC platforms, and the results are interesting.

Aspyr Media has posted a new update on the Linux port of Civilization: Beyond Earth. Some bad news this time, as it looks like the port might be delayed and support for Intel and ATI graphics cards might be missing on release. UPDATED

Hi, hello, I will be taking this post from now on and will do the basic thing that is done every month, give some thoughts on it and the usual disclaimers to not take these numbers as something precise or some real representation of us or something like that.