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The war of the PC stores is getting ugly, as Metro Exodus becomes a timed Epic Store exclusive

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While this might not be specific to Linux gaming, it's still something interesting I've wanted to talk about. Metro Exodus from 4A Games and Deep Silver has jumped ship from Steam to the Epic Store.

Estranged: Act II, the free first-person puzzle, exploration and combat game was tweaked recently

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Estranged: Act II, the free game from Alan Edwardes that follows a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm had a recent update to tweak various issues.

The hide and seek shooter 'AT SUNDOWN: Shots in the Dark' is now out with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
AT SUNDOWN: Shots in the Dark from developer Mild Beast Games and publisher Versus Evil puts an interesting spin on the top-down shooter genre where light is your enemy.

Allspace, a free to play first-person space combat game arrives on Steam in a rather basic form

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While it's incredibly early days for Allspace, this free to play first-person space combat game could be interesting when it's a little less bare.

The sporty city-builder 'Road to your City' has a demo out ahead of the Kickstarter

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Here's a good sign for their Linux support, Road to your City, a city-builder with a focus on Football (Soccer to some of you) has a demo up.

Abandon Ship, the naval combat and adventure game is still heading to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It's been quite some time since I checked on Abandon Ship, the naval combat and adventure game that hooked me in with the art inspired by old naval oil paintings.

The developer of AuroraRL, a 2D space exploration game has thrown in the towel

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The difficulties of game development and Early Access have hit another developer, with Sun Dogs throwing in the towel with AuroraRL. It's not all bad news though.

Outwarp 50S is the new devilish hard shoot 'em up from Bearded Giant Games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Some of you may recognise the name Bearded Giant Games, as they made a little splash recently with their "Linux first initiative" and they've now revealed a new game called Outwarp 50S.

King under the Mountain, a settlement-building strategy game now has an alpha up on itch.io

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After a mildly successful Kickstarter, King under the Mountain, a fantasy settlement-building strategy game now has an alpha available on itch.io.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare now has official Linux support once again

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare, a third-person shooter where you take on the role of a toy soldier is once again supported on Linux.

RivenTails: Defense, a mix of a 3D puzzle platformer with Tower Defense will come to Linux this year

By Liam Squires-Hand,
RivenTails: Defense from developer Kivano is a rather sweet and colourful looking game blending two rather different genres together.

FoxTail, the sweet in-development point and click adventure has a second chapter out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
For those who love their classic inspired point and click adventures, take a look at FoxTail which now has a whole second chapter available.

Six years later, the horror adventure ASYLUM should hopefully release this year with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It's been a long wait for the horror adventure 'ASYLUM' to finally release, with 2019 looking more likely and Linux support is still confirmed.

The free and open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has a third 3.1 beta out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
No need to wait for Godot, the third beta of Godot Engine 3.1 is officially out for you to break it apart and report issues.

Lutris has the first release candidate available for 0.5 which needs testing

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Lutris, the excellent bit of software that allows you to bring together your scattered game library is closing in on a final release of the 0.5 overhaul.

SteamOS got updated recently, previous beta promoted to stable with a new beta for security fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
SteamOS, Valve's Linux distribution aimed at a more console-like big TV experience actually saw some small updates recently.

Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux Gaming (Part 2: Wine & Steam Play)

By LordDaveTheKind,
Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux (distr. Ubuntu 18.10), and decided to elaborate my experience a little better, and share my results and observations with you all.

DXVK 0.96 is now officially out with CPU & GPU overhead improvements plus plenty more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Hot on the heels of Wine 4.0, the excellent DXVK project has another fresh release available this weekend.

Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It's nearly the end of January already, feels like the year is going rather quickly! With all the releases we've had lately along with some excellent games last year, what are you clicking on this weekend?

Kingdoms and Castles had another wonderful update to expand the city builder recently

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While this Kingdoms and Castles update isn't the one to include rival kingdoms (it's coming), it does lay-out some of the groundwork towards that.