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Door Kickers 2 strategy game announced, Linux support confirmed too

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2016

The sequel to the critic and public-acclaimed Door Kickers moves the action to the Middle East and puts the player in control of military Special Operations Teams fighting an elusive Terrorist Network.

Another great highlight video from our GRID Autosport tournament on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2016

Another week and another session in our GRID Autosport tournament, it's time for you to see more dirt driving from the Linux community.

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Superpowers, a HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games now open source

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2016

This is pretty awesome news, a very promising HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games has become open source!

The new Master of Orion 4X strategy game might see a Linux release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2016

I've put millions of hours into Master of Orion 2, so to hear about a brand new Master of Orion was quite exciting. I've been following it for a while, and it looks like it might get a Linux release.

Shakedown Hawaii, the follow up to Retro City Rampage should be on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2016

Shakedown Hawaii is something that popped up in my twitter feed today, and I must say it looks really rather good. Reminds me of the original Grand Theft Auto games quite a lot.

Disassembling NWScript bytecode with the open source project 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy, 16 Jan 2016

xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.

The Humble Store is having a winter sale, go grab cheap games

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

It's getting pretty cold outside, so now is a good time to stock up on some games isn't it? Good thing Humble Store is now having a winter sale.

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Slime Rancher now on Steam Early Access, it's so cute, watch out for killer rainbow slime

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

Slime Rancher is quickly becoming one of my favourite indie games. It's a cute and silly game, and I have fallen in love with those stupid little smiling slimes.

Albion Online update Brutus sounds like it will be rather good

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

I actually love Albion Online, and I think it's going to be a big hit when they add in more content and quality of life stuff. They have listened and the 'Brutus' update is coming.

SteamOS beta update adds bluetooth pairing support

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

SteamOS just keeps getting better at actually being a useful system. A beta update just launched giving you access to easily pair bluetooth gear to SteamOS.

Friday Livestream, finally with new releases! Starting at 6 PM UTC

By Samsai, 15 Jan 2016

It's time for our weekly livestream once again and luckily this time around we have a couple of new games to play! So, let's have fun with these recent releases on the traditional Friday Livestream of Linux games and random discussion!

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Nvidia talk Vulkan in a developer blog post, they say Vulkan supplements OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

Nvidia are talking about Vulkan a little more now, which is really good to see. Looks like they will have a little bit of support for it on "day-zero" too.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare now in closed testing for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare is a title I really want to try, but I didn't have time to get into the closed-beta. I've been told by a few people now that the Linux beta is running really well.