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I wrote about Earth Liberation recently, as it was one of my random discoveries on itch. It's now on Steam and the developers have confirmed it will come to Linux during Early Access.

Thanks to a tweet from Paypal, we have it confirmed that the Steam Winter Sale will start on December 22nd.

The volunteer moderators on the Civ VI forum have been banning Linux users for expressing their support of a Linux port.

The news doing the rounds right now is that the Nintendo Switch, the new gaming device from Nintendo will use Vulkan. People are getting rather excited and thinking it will mean more Linux ports, but right now it won't.

Pizza Crash is currently a prototype that could eventually become a full game. It's about delivering pizza while avoiding the nasty hotdog vans.

I don't often play many smaller arcade titles, but SPINGUN has genuinely surprised me with the interesting control scheme and how fun it actually is.

EGOSOFT, who became pretty Linux-friendly in recent times are working on two new space simulation games! X Rebirth VR Edition will use Vulkan and they are starting to plan X4.

Motorsport Manager is surprisingly good and it just got a little better for the lower-end gamers with a new 2D race mode.

The itch developers sure do work fast, as another two versions of this open source game client has been released.

The developer of VK9, the project that aims to implement d3d9 over Vulkan, emailed in to let me know they have hit another milestone.

Not long after requesting Linux testers for Orwell, the surveillance simulation game, it's now officially available on Linux.

Off Grid sounds pretty interesting! An adventure, satire and stealth game that follows real-world events surrounding data privacy.

With Wine 2.0 right around the corner, the Wine development team has released RC2 of Wine 2.0. No new features as they are in a code-freeze, but it has 20 bugs fixed.

After a few years of delay, the spiritual and thematic successor to Planescape: Torment finally gets a release date. The RPG should be available on February 28th.

I've been following 'The Other 99' hoping to see a Linux release soon, so I poked the developers about an update. They said they need fixes from Epic due to bugs in Unreal Engine 4 and Linux support.

The day we (or is it just me?) have long been waiting for is here! I have finally been released back into the civilian life from my 6 month vacation in the Finnish Defence Forces and I am back to bring the hurt to the demons, insurgents and everything else the games classify as targets. So, strap yourself in and point your browsers to our Twitch channel for some live Linux gaming!

I was shared an email from the Block'hood developers today that states their neighborhood-building simulator should arrive on Linux next week.

I have done some changes to the way that the notification system works today, so be sure to read up on what's changed.

The client for the game store itch has been updated again and it has some really useful stuff this time.

It seems that the big Steam update, which rolled out on December 12th disabled support for the Steam Web Browser for 32-bit distributions. Steam also no longer supports 32-bit Linux distributions.