The Linux Gaming News Punch - Episode 5 is here once again! Another week, another ton of news and so here's your bite-sized take at a few interesting topics for those struggling to keep up.
If you like puzzle games and marbles today is your lucky day as I came across Flux Caves, which merges them into one game.
If XCOM 2 having a free weekend isn't your thing or the Tacoma giveaway on Humble Store then perhaps Cities: Skylines will be for you.
For those who want to help with Wine development without contributing code, CodeWeavers host the Wine project and contribute to its development along with their own CrossOver product.
One Kickstarter I completely missed is Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands, a musical themed quirky RPG where music is your weapon. The campaign is over and it managed to smash the funding goal, with Linux noted as a release platform.
Baba Is You, a recent puzzle game release from Hempuli Oy offers a pretty different take on the genre and I have some thoughts.
Here's something interesting, Epic Games are launching their Epic Online Services and it will support Linux as well as multiple different game engines.
Set in the blood-soaked and paranoid world of the French Revolution, We. The Revolution from Polyslash is officially out with Linux support.
One thing we don't have enough of on Linux, is good platform fighting games and Super Powered Battle Friends is looking pretty good.
At GDC today, Valve did their presentation and they finally showed off the new design coming for the Library page and more.
Humble Store has another free game from you to grab with Tacoma, along with their Indie Mega Week sale now live.
Firaxis Games have put their strategy game XCOM 2 up to play for free between now and March 25th, so if you've been on the fence this is a great opportunity.
Someone please lock away my wallet, as the GOG Spring Sale is live and it's full of discounted Linux games.
AMD are showing off a little here, with an update to the Radeon GPU Analyzer open source project and it sounds great.
Following on from the tweak to Danger Zone to focus more on duos, Valve are still tweaking their Battle Royale mode in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as well as the game as a whole.
Chasm, the crowdfunded adventure platformer continues to see great post-release support with the latest big free update out now.
Barony is a game I hadn't honestly touched in a very long time, which all changed with the Myths & Outcasts DLC that released last month giving new ways to play. It's also now on GOG, so that's great.
While the Linux version has been up on GOG for a little while, Steam was left a bit behind. Now the Linux version on Steam has been officially announced and released but there's an issue with Steam Play.
Valve haven't given up on their home-grown Linux distribution yet, with SteamOS seeing another beta update. Additionally, there's another Steam Beta Client update about.
Kingdom Rush Origins, the excellent tower defense game from Ironhide Game Studio is seeing some great updates, with another campaign named Forgotten treasures now up.