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Lord of Dwarves will have you build large structures and defend them, developed on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2019

Here's a fun one, Lord of Dwarves from developer Stellar Sage Games is a game about helping a kingdom of dwarves survive, build, and prosper. It's made on Linux too and releasing in Early Access in March.

Dead Ascend, an open source point and click 2D adventure game

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2019

For those wanting to check out another open source game or perhaps see how they're made, Dead Ascend might be a fun choice for a little adventure.

The new System Shock is looking quite impressive with the latest artwork

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2019

System Shock, the remake coming eventually from Nightdive Studios continues along in development and it's looking impressive.

vkQuake2, the project adding Vulkan support to Quake 2 now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2019

At the start of this year, I gave a little mention to vkQuake2, a project which has updated the classic Quake 2 with various improvements including Vulkan support.

Protontricks, a handy tool for doing various tweaks with Steam Play has been forked

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2019

For those brave enough to attempt to get more Windows games to run through Steam Play, Protontricks is a handy solution and it's been forked.

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By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2019

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Valve put out another Steam Beta Client with minor Steam Play changes

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2019

Valve are pushing out updates rather often to the Steam client lately, with the fourth this month now out.

Juicy like the good stuff, Wine 4.0 RC7 is out with a delightful aroma

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

No need to worry about a sour aftertaste here, we're of course talking about the wonderful software and not the tasty liquid.

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Become a fish inside a robot in Feudal Alloy, out now with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

We've seen plenty of robots and we've seen a fair amount of fish, but have you seen a fish controlling a robot with a sword? Say hello to Feudal Alloy.

Ravva and the Cyclops Curse looks like a rather nice NES-inspired platformer

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

Another lovely looking retro-inspired platformer! Ravva and the Cyclops Curse from developer Galope just released this week with Linux support.

Battle Motion, a really silly massive fantasy battle game will have Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

Sometimes when looking around for new games I come across something that really catches my eye, Battle Motion is one such game as it looks completely silly.

Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

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Now that Steam has the ability officially to override a Linux game and run it through Steam Play instead, let's take a quick look at some differences in performance.

Quake 2 now has real-time path tracing with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

If you have one of the more recent NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, here's an interesting project for you to try. Q2VKPT from developer Christoph Schied implements some really quite advanced techniques.

Dicey Dungeons, the new unique roguelike from Terry Cavanagh and co introduces quests

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

We have a lot of roguelikes available on Linux (seriously, we do) yet Dicey Dungeons from Terry Cavanagh, Marlowe Dobbe, and Chipzel still remains fresh due to the rather unique game mechanics.

The Beta of Zombie Panic! Source was updated recently, should work better on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

Zombie Panic! Source is currently going through an overhaul, as part of this it's coming to Linux with a version now in beta and the latest update should make it a better experience.