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Lenovo adding Ubuntu & Red Hat on their entire ThinkStation and ThinkPad P lines

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Today, hardware vendor Lenovo announced something quite huge for the Linux community with the addition of more Linux devices becoming easily available.

The Linux market share still appears to be rising

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Looking at multiple places, it appears like the Linux desktop has been on something of a roll lately with the market share starting to trend upwards.

Total War Saga: TROY is now a 12 month Epic Games Store exclusive

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Total War Saga: TROY, a game that was confirmed to be coming to Linux, is now going to start life as an Epic Games Store exclusive for the first year.

Boneloaf to self-publish Gang Beasts going forwards, updates coming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Game developer Boneloaf has announced plans to self-publish Gang Beasts, as they split off from Double Fine Presents since it's winding down.

Retrofuturistic strategy game Mainframe Defenders gets a huge upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mainframe Defenders is a strategy game that looks like you're playing from some sort of 80s terminal, it's slick and now it has a big free update out.

Transhuman Design taking sign-ups for multiplayer Soldat 2 testing

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After open sourcing the original Soldat, Transhuman Design are now pushing forwards with their next generation side-scrolling action game Soldat 2.

European mystery adventure Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Lithuanian developer Tag of Joy are currently working on Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit, a colourful upcoming adventure game and it will support Linux.

LRDGames overhaul subterfuge strategy game Precipice

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Precipice had a good idea when it released, a strategy game where you didn't face your enemy directly in war across the world and instead engage in a cat and mouse game of subterfuge.

Spaceship action RPG Drox Operative 2 lands in Early Access

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Drox Operative 2 from Soldak Entertainment has now arrived in Early Access after a short delay on Steam's approvals process.

Siralim Ultimate, the monster catching RPG is now funded

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Siralim Ultimate, a monster catching game with over one thousand creatures to collect has managed to be a huge success on Kickstarter and so it's on the way to Linux.

EA open sources code from Command & Conquer Remastered Collection

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As they said they would late last month, it appears Electronic Arts have gone ahead and uploaded some of the source code for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.

Stadia Pro now has 17 games to redeem, with Elder Scrolls Online soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Google's game streaming service, Stadia, today adds another 5 titles available for anyone who has an active Stadia Pro subscription to redeem. We've also got plenty of other Stadia info to go over!

You can now roll with a gamepad in Dicey Dungeons

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Dicey Dungeons was one of my favourite releases from last year and it keeps getting better! A fresh update recently released making it even easier to play.

Horror adventure Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask releasing June 18

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask, a prologue to a much bigger upcoming point & click horror adventure game is now confirmed to be releasing on June 18.

Paradox Interactive founds new studio for their grand strategy games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Today Paradox Interactive announced the formation of a new studio with Paradox Tinto, with an aim to focus on their grand strategy games.

Geneshift Battle Royale adds daily survival runs, free to keep giveaway soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Geneshift, an indie game that's had many faces over the years and now mostly settled into a Battle Royale as the main part has gained a single-player daily survival run.

Factorio to release early in August to avoid Cyberpunk 2077

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Factorio, that magnificent indie game about building sprawling conveyor belts and production chains is going to release sooner than originally expected.

Linux Kernel patch being discussed to help Windows games run in Wine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A developer for Collabora, the open source consultancy firm that works with the likes of Valve has sent in a Linux Kernel patch aimed at helping Windows games run on Linux through Wine.

SteamOS-like Linux distribution GamerOS has a new release up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GamerOS, a Linux distribution based originally on Arch with a firm focus on an out of the box experience for gaming on your couch (much like Valve's original idea with SteamOS) has a new release.

Valve continues to improve Linux Vulkan Shader Pre-Caching

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Recently we wrote about a new feature for Linux in the Steam Client Beta, where Steam can now sort out Vulkan shaders before running a game. With the latest build, it gets better.