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Age of Fear: The Undead King & Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord Now On SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2015

The developers themselves emailed both Age of Fear: The Undead King & Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord in for me to take a look at. They told me the games don't look like much, but offer a lot, and they were right.

Hyperdrive Massacre, A Local Multiplayer Frag-fest Now On SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2015

If you like your silly arcade games for when friends come around then Hyperdrive Massacre might just be what you need. Fancy flying around a space-car and blowing up others? This is the game for you.

Major Engine & Content Update To The MMO War Thunder

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2015

War Thunder is a pretty popular MMO that's for sure, and it had a lot of people excited when it came to Linux. It has recently been updated with some big new stuff.

RollerCoaster Tycoon World Delayed Until 2016

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2015

RollerCoaster Tycoon World has officially be delayed until 2016 to give the developers some more time to fix up performance and features to a higher level.

Ars Technica Benchmarks Show Windows 10 Beating SteamOS Performance

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2015

Ars Technica recently ran a few Windows vs SteamOS benchmarks, and it shows what we here already know: A lot of ports have worse performance on SteamOS & Linux.

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Sword Coast Legends Campaign Review

By Keyrock, 13 Nov 2015

For the purposes of this review I will be concentrating fully on the single player campaign. I did have a quick peek at the DM tools but found them lacking for creating anything other than simple dungeon crawls or completely linear adventures.

Origin PC Is No Longer Doing A SteamOS Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2015

gameinformer has reported that Origin PC has decided against using SteamOS for what was going to be their Steam Machine, so time to stop calling it a Steam Machine.

Cold And Dark Livestream Starting At 6 PM UTC

By Samsai, 13 Nov 2015

Winter is soon coming, if global warming allows that is. And what would be more fitting than playing some cold and dark games on a cold and dark day? That's exactly what we will do today!

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Football Manager 2016 Released For Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2015

Football fans rejoice! We have a day one release of Football Manager 2016 for Linux & SteamOS. It's a very popular game series, and great to see another on Linux.

How-to: Minecraft with the Steam Controller on Linux desktop and SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2015

I wanted to see how easy it was to not only get Minecraft working with the Steam Controller on Ubuntu, but to also see if I could get it all on my Steam Machine, and as it turns out most of it is easy enough.

Legends Of Eisenwald Linux Port Put On Hold, Developers Asking For Help To Port It

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2015

Legends of Eisenwald an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements that was funded on Kickstarter. They wanted to do a Linux release, but they didn't hit the goal to do it right away, and now due to finances it's on hold.

Torment: Tides Of Numenera Alpha Gameplay, Delayed Until 2016

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2015

Torment: Tides of Numenera is an upcoming crowdfunded RPG from veteran developers inXile Entertainment set in the Numenera universe, and a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment.

Sublevel Zero, A First-person Roguelike Six-degree-of-freedom Shooter Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2015

Sublevel Zero is a great looking and well received first-person roguelike six-degree-of-freedom shooter (wow, what a mouthful!).

My Own Thoughts On The Steam Controller, Flawed, But Fun

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

I honestly can’t remember the last time I was this excited about any hardware. It may only be a gamepad, but the Steam Controller is so very different it’s refreshing.

Looks Like Road Redemption Is Finally On Its Way To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

Road Redemption is the rather cool looking spiritual successor to Road Rash (an old love of mine), and it looks like it may come to Linux sometime soon.

Wyrmsun, A 2D RTS Game Inspired By The Classics, On SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

Wyrmsun is yet another game we totally missed, mainly due to it not appearing in the SteamOS + Linux new releases. Valve really need to fix games showing up there if they add a Linux version to an existing release later on.

KWAAN, A 2D Online RPG & Pixel Editor For SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

KWAAN is a game we completely missed covering, it never appeared in Steam's new release section for Linux either as the Linux version was released after the initial Windows version. It's a weird (but interesting) looking 2D online RPG.

Alienware Interview Video About Their Steam Machine, SteamOS & The Future

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

Not our video, but an interesting watch and it's good to see a company speak so highly about Steam Machines and SteamOS, even if the Alienware rep is a little wrong at times.

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X3: Reunion, X3: Albion Prelude And X3: Terran Conflict Now DRM Free On GOG

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

GOG don't just do classic games remember, they also do big space games too! X3: Reunion, X3: Albion Prelude and X3: Terran Conflict are now on GOG for Linux