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NBlood, an open source port of the classic FPS 'Blood' using EDuke32

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2019

Based on the EDuke32 game engine, NBlood is a new open source port of the classic FPS Blood. From what Voidpoint (Ion Maiden) said on Twitter, it's using their version of the game engine too.

Ravenfield, the single-player FPS with large-scale battles has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2019

More FPS news for you this weekend, with the single-player Ravenfield having another great update out with lots of new toys.

The unique FPS 'Shotgun Farmers' is leaving Early Access next month

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2019

Shotgun Farmers, by far one of the most unique FPS games I've played in a long time is due to leave Early Access soon.

Tannenberg, the WWI shooter has officially left Early Access and it's good fun

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2019

With massive online battles and some great design work, the WWI FPS Tannenberg has now left Early Access.

Suffered crashes in CS:GO Danger Zone? They should now be fixed on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2019

Valve has finally fixed the issue in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Danger Zone crashing for Linux gamers.

Brutal retro-inspired FPS 'DUSK' officially arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2019

Spread across three distinct campaign episodes, DUSK is a brutal retro-inspired shooter from David Szymanski and New Blood Interactive and it's now on Linux.

1001st Hyper Tower, a cyberpunk FPS will have you climb a tower and destroy everything

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2019

1001st Hyper Tower from developer Toster12D3 seems like quite a unique FPS, like a reverse dungeon crawler as you ascend a tower a destroy everything in your way.

The latest update on Black Mesa shows some good progress on this Half-Life fan game

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2019

I'm quite excited for the final release of Black Mesa, as someone who only completed the original Half-Life in the last few years (after it came to Linux) playing through a heavily improved version is going to be great.

DUSK, the popular retro-inspired FPS now has a Linux testing build up, out for everyone next week

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2019

DUSK, a retro-inspired FPS from David Szymanski and New Blood Interactive looks awesome and you can test it out on Linux right now.

Insurgency: Sandstorm should still release for Linux this year

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2019

Now that the fantastic looking FPS game Insurgency: Sandstorm is out for Windows, I've seen a few people worried about the status of a Linux version. I spoke to New World Interactive to clear up the situation.

The "Heskel's House of Horrors" update for Ion Maiden is out now

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2019

This was quite a surprise to wake up to today, the in-development FPS Ion Maiden from Voidpoint and 3D Realms just got a pretty sweet update.

Team Fortress 2 update released to improve memory use on Linux, new charity event in May

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2019

Valve are keeping Team Fortress 2 alive for Linux gamers with the latest update making some welcome improvements. There's also going to be a TF2 charity event in May.

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.