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Stuck for a new game? Here's over 50 great games released for Linux in 2019

By Liam Dawe,
8
I know how it is, you look at your list of games and think "I need something new!" and then you click around Steam, GOG, Humble, itch and more and end up going back to the safety of what you already know. Here to help with that!
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Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe,
50
Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.
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The fantastic deck-builder Dicey Dungeons has a big bug-fix update, plus a new modding tool is out

By Liam Dawe,
2
Dicey Dungeons is easily one of the best indie games released with Linux support last year, a success for the developer and it's continuing to get better.
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Want to make a 3D adventure game? There's now a full template project for Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
5
Say hello to GOAT (Godot Open Adventure Template), a new open source project template for Godot Engine aimed at helping developers to create 3D adventure games.
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Isometric university management game 'UniverCity' development stops - goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
4
UniverCity from Matthew Collins sadly didn't sell too well and now the developer has a new job, so they decided to fix it up a bit - add some extra modding support and open source the code.
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Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations

By Liam Dawe,
23
Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre wrote another of their monthly progress reports on how Linux Mint and their Cinnamon desktop are doing and it's all great news.
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Be a mad scientist and grow creatures in a lab in Test Tube Titans - coming to Steam in March

By Liam Dawe,
5
Test Tube Titans has been in First Access on itch.io for a while and it was promising even from the first build. It's come a long way and a Steam release is approaching.
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Steam hits a new all-time high for users online, Linux share rises

By Liam Dawe,
23
Two quick bits of Steam news to cover this wonderful Monday morning. As expected, Steam does still appear to be growing.
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Post-processing layer 'vkBasalt' new release up - can now use some ReShade shaders

By Liam Dawe,
2
Another fresh release of a wonderful open source project for Linux is here, with the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt continuing to advance.
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Wine 5.1 is out - the first development release of the year

By Liam Dawe,
2
The Wine hackers never stop pushing compatibility forwards, with the first development release of 2020 now available with Wine 5.1.
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OpenRA has a new release for classic Westwood real-time strategy - massive upgrade also in testing

By Liam Dawe,
4
The team working on OpenRA, the game engine that keeps classic Westwood real-time strategy games alive have pushed out a new release. Plus there's some real exciting advancements coming.
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The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now open for voting

By Liam Dawe,
49
Get ready to cast your votes, as the Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now open for business. After some time to let people nominate games, we've done a bit of cleaning up and it's ready.
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The Linux version of Starcom: Nexus is now officially live and out of Beta

By Liam Dawe,
2
Ready for a new space adventure and a little action? Starcom: Nexus, an open-world sci-fi game with some RPG elements is now properly out and supported on Linux.
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Descent 3 returns to Linux (and macOS) with an official modern port

By Liam Dawe,
20
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a developer who has ported tons of games to Linux has done it again. Descent 3, has been re-ported and upgraded for Linux (and macOS).
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Frictional Games are getting sneakier with their teaser - looks like we have a baby coming

By Liam Dawe,
9
I hope you're getting as ridiculously excited as I am about whatever this ends up being. Frictional Games have updated their teaser website for their upcoming game again.
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Puppygames have formally announced Battledroid - a massively multiplayer strategy game

By Liam Dawe,
5
Using their own state-of-the art custom voxel graphics engine named Voxoid, Puppygames have formally announced their next game with Battledroid.
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Volcano eruptions no longer prevent exploring in Volcanoids with Blast Shelters added

By Liam Dawe,
3
Volcanoids, an incredibly unique and extremely promising steampunk base-builder just had a huge feature update and it's a big improvement.
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Psychological horror adventure Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask confirmed on the way to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
2
Acting as a free demo showing off the first part of the upcoming psychological horror adventure, Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask will be coming to Linux.
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NVIDIA end updates to the 340 series legacy driver for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
8
If you have an older NVIDIA GPU, chances are you've been using the 340 legacy series. Well, NVIDIA have said that it's no longer getting updates.
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Dungeon management and defence game Legend of Keepers releasing in March

By Liam Dawe,
2
Goblinz Studio continue upgrading the free Legend of Keepers: Prologue and in recent patch notes, they gave Legend of Keepers a release date for Early Access.
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