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This Is the Police spin-off strategy game Rebel Cops has released with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Focusing exclusively on the turn-based combat found in This Is the Police 2, the new spin-off game Rebel Cops is officially out now with Linux support.

Area 86, an amusing physics-based escape room puzzler is coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Area 86 takes the idea of an escape room game and turns it into a physics-based puzzler and it's coming to Linux next month.

The latest update to the city-builder god game The Universim adds riots, Twitch integration and some automation

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Crytivo continue expanding their city-builder The Universim, with the Pitchfork Patch now out and it's quite a big one.

Paradox have released a big free update for Europa Universalis IV, fix included for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Paradox Development Studio have released another big free content update to the empire building game Europa Universalis IV.

Prison Architect updated with more free content, needs a fix for it running on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Now that Paradox own the rights to Prison Architect and Double Eleven are in charge of development, they're continuing the free updates.

Beautiful sci-fi point and click adventure ENCODYA is fully funded and heading to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ENCODYA is a very impressive sci-fi point and click adventure with a fantastic style and the good news is the recent Kickstarter campaign was very much a success.

Might and Delight just announced Book of Travels, a unique new RPG that will support Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Might and Delight (Meadow, Shelter) announced something very interesting this week called Book of Travels. It's what they say is a TMO (Tiny Multiplayer Online) game and it looks pretty awesome.

Backspace Bouken, the dungeon crawler that needs you to type out encounters has a fresh demo out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
RNG Party Games recently put out a freshly baked demo version of the typing dungeon crawler Backspace Bouken.

No hammer or nails needed for the Humble Builder Bundle now live

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Humble Builder Bundle just went live with a couple of nice Linux games included, another chance to get a good deal.

The new Steam Library Beta is officially out for you to try

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The day has finally arrived, Valve have now put out a Beta for the massive overhaul to the Steam Library so you can try it yourself.

Canonical have listed what 32bit packages they will continue to support through Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After Canonical announced they would be ending 32bit support earlier this year and then adjusting their plans after the backlash, they've now posted what packages they will look to continue supporting.

Brutal local co-op platform brawler CHOP has released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
CHOP, a brutal local co-op platform brawler recently left Early Access on Steam. If you like fast-paced fighters with a great style and chaotic gameplay this is for you.

Mystery adventure game Jenny LeClue - Detectivu is releasing this week

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Developer Mografi has confirmed that their adventure game Jenny LeClue - Detectivu is officially releasing on September 19th.

Seafaring strategy game Nantucket just had a big patch and Masters of the Seven Seas DLC released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Ahoy mateys! Are you ready top set sail? Anchors aweigh! Seafaring strategy game Nantucket is now full of even more content for you to play through.

MOTHERGUNSHIP, a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your guns works great on Linux with Steam Play

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Need a fun new FPS to try? MOTHERGUNSHIP is absolutely nuts and it appears to run very nicely on Linux thanks to Steam Play.

Build and manage your very own vineyard in Terroir, now available for Linux on GOG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOG have added another Linux game to their DRM-free collection recently with the tycoon vineyard building game Terroir now up.

ScummVM 2.1.0 is now ready for testing with support for more major classics

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ScummVM, the clever bit of software enabling many classic point-and-click adventure games to run nicely on modern systems has a big new release in need of some testing.

Richard Stallman has resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation has resigned and he's also left his position in CSAIL at MIT.

Lenna's Inception, the Zelda-like action-adventure RPG is looking brilliant in the latest trailer

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Lenna's Inception, a name I've honestly not heard of since 2013 is closing in on release with a brand new trailer and some big news about the development.

You may want to hold off on Linux Kernel 5.3 and systemd 243 if you use a gamepad

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Did you do a big system upgrade recently and notice you're having gamepad issues? You're not alone. Time to downgrade perhaps.