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The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, a fantasy solo RPG with turn-based battles will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
14
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a fantasy solo RPG with turn-based battles, it's made in the style of a table-top game. The developers have confirmed it's coming to Linux.
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Have you tried 'Life of Pixel'? A very cool love letter to retro gaming

By Liam Dawe,
3
Life of Pixel is a game that has been on Linux for quite some time, it originally released back in 2014 and I've finally given it a go. You're essentially playing through the graphical history of multiple eras.
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Site update: a notice about article and forum post subscription changes

By Liam Dawe,
2
I have recently adjusted the way subscribing to articles and forum posts works, to make it clearer and work as actually expected. Personal messages also got a minor bug fix.
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Valve have made some big changes to the Steam Reviews system

By Liam Dawe,
11
Valve have made some steps towards trying to improve their reviews system, so let's take a look. It should cut out people gaming the system, but it's not great news for developers in reality.
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Rocket League updated for SteamOS & Linux, AA now works, FPS no longer locked to 60

By Liam Dawe,
41
The SteamOS beta for Rocket League has been updated, and it seems it has fixed a bunch of obvious issues.
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A Unity developer is teasing the Vulkan API in the Unity engine

By Liam Dawe,
22
This is very cool and quite exciting, Na'Tosha Bard, a developer for Unity has teased a little shot of Unity + Vulkan. Looks like it's running on Ubuntu too.
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Homefront: The Revolution is starting to show signs that the Linux port is alive and coming

By Liam Dawe,
21
It seems Homefront: The Revolution is still coming to Linux, as it has recently popped up on SteamDB.
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You can help fund the Unreal Engine Editor development specifically for Linux compatibility

By Liam Dawe,
31
A community contributor to the Unreal Engine has put up a Patreon for you to be able to support their effort.
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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander released with day-1 Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
5
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a blend of a space strategy game with base building and RPG elements. It recently launched on Linux day-1 so here's some thoughts.
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The original 1997 version of FPS ‘Shadow Warrior’ is now FREE on GOG, along with both expansions

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
12
While it's sad that Shadow Warrior 2 won't see a day-1 Linux release, in the meantime you can fill the void with the original 1997 version of the game, which has become FREE on GOG.
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A new build of Retro-Pixel Castles is available, has a new launcher for Linux and a whole new interface

By Liam Dawe,
1
Retro-Pixel Castles really is quite awesome (seriously, go try it!) and now even more so. The developer has included a Linux launcher bundled with Java to remove any issues for Linux users. Oh, it also has a flashy new interface.
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A Linux release for Kingdom Come: Deliverance still looks very unclear

By Liam Dawe,
20
You may or may not remember that I wrote about Kingdom Come: Deliverance back in March. The developers said it wasn't technically possible, now it seems months later they still have no idea.
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StarMade, the Minecraft-like spaceship builder now has a brand new launcher, be sure to try the demo!

By Liam Dawe,
11
StarMade is an impressive game, it has a similar voxel-block style to Minecraft, but that's were the similarities end. The game now has a proper launcher that includes a bundled version of Java. This will make it easily run on Steam Machines.
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Hue, an award-winning platformer where you alter the worlds background colour is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
6
Hue looks like a great idea, it's an adventure platformer where you change the background colour of the world.
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Owners of Armello on GOG can get a refund due to it not getting DLC and online features

By Liam Dawe,
28
You might remember a heated topic recently that the GOG version of 'Armello' was renamed to 'Armello DRM-Free Edition' and it won't be getting the DLC. It seems GOG are offering refunds now.
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Curvatron, a simple yet interesting evolution of the old game 'Snake', we have free keys for you

By Liam Dawe,
8
Curvatron has recently been released on Linux and the developer sent in a bunch of keys for you lucky people. The game itself is inspired by the old game 'Snake' that was on rather old Nokia mobile phones.
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Wargame: European Escalation works once again for Nvidia users, two years after breaking

By Liam Dawe,
12
It seems Wargame: European Escalation was broken for nearly two years for Nvidia GPU users on Linux. The recent Nvidia 370.28 driver seems to have fixed it.
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Agricola spinoff and Patchwork pass Greenlight, heading to Linux

By adolson,
0
Two more digital incarnations of designer Uwe Rosenberg's hit 2-player board games are coming to Linux on Steam, as they've both now passed their Greenlight campaigns!
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We Happy Few to release on Linux after the full release, not during Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
31
I spoke to the developer of We Happy Few on twitter to get an update on the Linux version, it seems it has been pushed back.
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A montage of an intense ranked 1on1 battle I did in Rocket League, amazing

By Liam Dawe,
11
I think I might be a little bit in love with Rocket League now it's available in Beta for Linux & SteamOS. Here's a clip of a 1on1 battle I did today that had me sweating.
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