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The last of the major engines has shaken up their business model into a pay what you want deal. They have also released CryEngine V with major new features.

Another week and another livestream of me vs Matt from Feral Interactive. Will Matt turn around his losing streak, who knows? I sure will put up a fight to keep up my winnings.

In their GDC presentation for this year, Paradox Development Studios has set a release date for their non-historical game. Those who dream of expanding their civilization among the stars can expect the game to be available May 9th.

Project Zomboid is easily one of my favourite indie games to keep an eye on. Not just because I love Zombies, but the effort these guys put into the game is amazing.

It's really good to see Unity working on improving performance, and the Unity 5.4 beta looks like it includes some pretty nice features to give improved performance.

Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a long time Linux game porter is working on getting the Serious Engine 1 source code release working on Linux, with official blessing.

Faeria is truly one not to miss out on, not only is it a good answer to not having Hearthstone on Linux, but it's also healing my wounds over Scrolls never officially coming to Linux and then getting shut down. The hook in Faeria is that you build the board as you play.

Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 is a pretty good looking real time strategy game from Great War Team and Publisher Best Way Soft. It has now managed to find its way onto Linux.

Lifeless Planet is a really cool looking atmospheric adventure game about seeking life on a distant planet, and coming across an old Russian town.

The highly anticipated update to the Linux Kernel has officially arrived, and the hard working kernel developers have been busy.

The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy has been released! Read on to learn about its origins, its creation and its legacy.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a game built with CryEngine looked like it was going to be a fantastic game to have on Linux, but the developers have told me it "is not possible technically".

Never a nice thing to write about, but important to know. It turns out the newly released Generic Space Shooter is using content taken from the indie game Starsector.

Good news Danganronpa fans as Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair looks like it will support Linux on the April 18th release.

I keep reading comments that Linux gaming is pretty much stagnating and not worth investing in because it is still at around 1% in the Steam Hardware Survey. So I decided to try and find some numbers.

Thanks to wccftech (and our IRC for the link) I have learnt today that AMD's new processor design named Zen is shaping up very nicely.

It has been quite some time since I mentioned CorsixTH, and I bet some of you don’t even know it exists! Theme Hospital is a brilliant game from many years ago where you build your own hospital.

Good news for fans of six-degree-of-freedom-shooter games, as OVERLOAD has been officially funded on Kickstarter.

I do love my Steam Controller, and Valve really are doing some amazing work with it. This latest update adds a pretty big new feature.

Moving Hazard has captured my interest, and the developers mention that they definitely want to release on Linux. Time to show our support for it.