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The surprisingly good and challenging rogue-lite Gerty is now "Content Complete"

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

Gerty from developer Spawn Point OSK was a huge surprise when I initially tried it out in December last year. An absolutely action packed rogue-lite with ruthless aliens and destructible terrain.

DRM-free store GOG are doing a back to school sale with lots of discounts

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

Absolutely any excuse for a sale and since the Summer holidays are coming to a close, GOG have decided to do a back to school sale. Yes, nothing says school like buying more games.

Give the Linux demo of the action RPG Space Robinson a try and let the developer know your thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

Developer Luxorix Games and publisher Alawar Premium are currently working on Space Robinson, an action RPG with a fun graphical style that's supposed to really test you.

One of our favourite games Slay the Spire is getting even better on Linux with a new beta up

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

Slay the Spire, a roguelike deck-builder from Mega Crit Games that released earlier this year is one of our absolutely favourite games. It's also getting even better and a beta is now up.

Post-apocalyptic road-trip strategy game Overland is releasing September 19th

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

A day I've been waiting for after playing hours of the early builds, Overland from developer Finji is finally going to release on September 19th.

NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver 435.19.02, plus 435.21 stable driver released

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

NVIDIA have release two new drivers over the last day! An update to their Vulkan beta driver as well as a new stable driver update for everyone.

DXVK 1.3.3 is out, a small and tidy release for the D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

Developer Philip Rebohle pushed out a fresh update to DXVK yesterday with a couple little fixes and improvements.

Bag a free copy of DiRT Rally during the Humble Store end of Summer sale, some deals on Steam too

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

For 72 hours Humble Store are giving away DiRT Rally (has Linux support - ported by Feral Interactive) during their big end of Summer sale.

Go on a wild Cornish adventure in Knights And Bikes, out with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Knights And Bikes is a tale of two lost souls discovering friendship, going on an adventure inspired by Earthbound, Secret of Mana and The Goonies.

The Hunter & The Beast expansion announced for Total War: WARHAMMER II

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Arriving on Linux "shortly" after the Windows release, the next expansion for Total War: WARHAMMER II has been announced and it does sound quite enticing.

A Short Hike is a very sweet and serene experience

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Taking a break to go on A Short Hike turned out to be a rather beautiful experience, one that has allowed me to sit back and appreciate the calmer side of life for a moment.

Twin-stick exploration shooter Smith and Winston is out now, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Execution Unit have now officially released their fantastically styled exploration shooter Smith and Winston, with great Linux support.

Tame monsters and explore the world in Monster Sanctuary, out in Early Access now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Moi Rai Games and Team17 Digital Ltd have released Monster Sanctuary in Early Access with Linux support.

Rocket League Season 12 and the Rocket Pass 4 are live, with the new Weekly Challenge system

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2019

Another Competitive Season ends and a fresh one begins, Rocket League Season 12 is now officially live and so is the new Rocket Pass 4 with a tweaked Weekly Challenge system.

Yacht Club Games have shown off quite a lot of upcoming Shovel Knight content

By BTRE, 28 Aug 2019

The retro-inspired platformer continues to get love from its developers five years on from launch. Expect more content in December and as well as a new spinoff game sometime in the future.

The Humble Spooky Horror Bundle 2019 is out with a few quality Linux games inside

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2019

While not all of the games in this latest bundle support Linux, those that do are some great picks to have a go.

Accelerated OpenGL in a virtual machine is advancing with virglrenderer

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2019

Collabora put out a fresh technical blog post today to talk a little about virglrenderer, with the latest version enabling a big leap for accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine.