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A look at some sales figures for Spinnortality, a cyberpunk management sim

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2019

For those interested in seeing how well indie games are selling, developer James Patton who made Spinnortality has given out some interesting details including a breakdown per-platform.

ProtonDB released another data dump, here's a quick look over some February 2019 info

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2019

ProtonDB, the rather nice ratings website where you can go and give your thoughts on games played through Steam Play put out another data dump, here's a look inside.

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GOG are ending their 'Fair Price Package program', soon after letting staff go

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2019

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It appears things aren't going overly well for game store GOG at the moment, under increasing competition they're starting to feel the heat.

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Misc

A reminder about Steam's platform-specific wishlist feature you should be using

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2019

Back in 2017, Valve rolled out a small change to the wishlist feature on Steam that quite a few people still don't know about.

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Steam

Surviving Mars gains official modding support outside of Steam

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2019

For those players who picked up Surviving Mars outside of Steam through stores like GOG or the Paradox Store (to use in the Paradox Launcher), you can now add in some mods.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think of it?

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2019

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It's question time once again, time to tell the world what you've been playing and let us know if it's worth getting.

Misc

Six years ago today, Steam was released for Linux - Happy Birthday

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2019

Happy official birthday to the Steam client for Linux, today marks six years since it released for everyone.

Gaming and Linux graphics talks at FOSDEM 2019

By Linas, 9 Feb 2019

I spent the last weekend in Brussels, Belgium attending the FOSDEM conference -- a free event focused on free open-source software, and a place where free-software developers can meet, share idea and collaborate.

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Details on how Slay the Spire sold on Linux plus some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2019

In the past, I've spoken to many developers about how their games sold on Linux and this time we have information on Slay the Spire to share.

A quick run over some details from the recent ProtonDB data

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2019

Every now and then, the people behind ProtonDB release data dumps from user generated reports of games tested in Steam Play. Here's a look.

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The war of the PC stores is getting ugly, as Metro Exodus becomes a timed Epic Store exclusive

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2019

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While this might not be specific to Linux gaming, it's still something interesting I've wanted to talk about. Metro Exodus from 4A Games and Deep Silver has jumped ship from Steam to the Epic Store.

Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2019

It's nearly the end of January already, feels like the year is going rather quickly! With all the releases we've had lately along with some excellent games last year, what are you clicking on this weekend?

Misc

Putting games across multiple stores is not easy, as developers keep noting recently

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2019

One thing we see often, is that developers stick to one store. When they do put their game across multiple stores, the Linux version is often late or left out entirely. There are reasons for that, as developers have spoken about recently.

Unity have updated their Terms of Service and they seem a lot more fair

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2019

After the debacle over Unity and Improbable's SpatialOS, it seems Unity has made some solid steps after a lot of feedback on their Terms of Service.

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Unity

The 'Linux Steam Integration' project has a fresh minor release out

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2019

Back to work at Intel, developer Ikey Doherty has put out a fresh release of the Linux Steam Integration project.

Misc
Steam

Epic and Improbable are taking advantage of Unity with the SpatialOS debacle, seems a little planned

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

As an update to the ongoing saga between Improbable and Unity in regards to SpatialOS, Epic Games have now jumped in to take advantage of it.

Unity have changed their terms of service, which has essentially blocked SpatialOS and streaming services

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

While not directly related to Linux gaming, this is still some interesting news to be aware of for those working with the Unity game engine.

Misc
Unity

The developer of Smith and Winston made an interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

I recently talked about the Steam release of Smith and Winston but I didn't realise until late last night, that the developer actually made a very interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms.