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Kalypso Media really are getting Linux friendly aren't they! Vikings – Wolves of Midgard has been announced as a new action RPG that will launch in early 2017.

The Battle for Wesnoth is probably one of the all time great open source games. It's been around for a long time, it's well polished and now it's looking to get on Steam.

Since I am sick with Tonsillitis I decided to take a quick break from news and work on something else. Today I have updated the User Statistics Page and here's what's new.

Following on from Day of the Tentacle Remastered's Linux release, GOL editor Cheese has published 11,000 words on porting games to Linux, supplemented with thoughts and perspectives from other Linux game porters. Read on for a summary and some excerpts!

I don't have a freaking clue what's going in the teaser trailer for Sinner's Sorrow, but wow am I interested.

I'm going to be honest, I had never heard of openFrameworks until today. It claims it's a C++ toolkit that glues together several commonly used libraries to help you work quickly. They are working on a Vulkan backend that now supports Linux.

On the github pull request to bring in the Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator, it now reads as feature complete.

Dave Airlie has been working on an open source AMD Vulkan driver and he's ready to show it off a little bit.

A pretty incredible milestone for open source graphics, as it appears that Mesa along with the Intel driver has hit OpenGL 4.5.

The Living Dungeon developers have posted on Steam requesting to see how much interest there is for their game on Linux.

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.15 has many small changes including 22 bugfixes.

GOG have added in two more Linux titles for your DRM free collections! Dungeon Souls, a pretty cool action roguelike and Knights of the Sky, an older DOSBox title about being a combat pilot.

Hidden in Plain Sight is a rather amusing sounding local multiplayer game. You have to blend in with a crowd on NPCs and do various things.

The day I feel like I have been waiting on for an eternity is here. Starbound is now at the big 1.0 release and I've setup a small server.

Surprise, I'm finally back! As some of you might know, I have been sitting in the Finnish Defence Forces the past 3-ish weeks but I have now returned for a weekend to reclaim the Friday Livestream, mainly because Liam tactically got sick this evening and someone has to run the show. So, sit tight and buckle up for some live Linux gaming!

I am sure this will be good news to many of you! The System Shock kickstarter has now blasted way past the Linux stretch goal.

Terraria 1.3.2 has been released and along with an assortment of bugfixes it includes some fun new items. Having a Terraria party became a bit more fun.

SWORDY is a rather fun looking local party brawler that has just released on Steam in Early Access. It could see a Linux release too, if Microsoft allow it.

Life is Strange is a story rich game I’ve been wanting to play ever since I first saw it and now, thanks to Feral Interactive, we all have that chance. Life is Strange is officially available on Linux & SteamOS. Hella yeah!

The newest instalment in the episodic adventure game Kentucky Route Zero has been released after a two year wait.