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Blood will be Spilled, a narrative spaghetti western platformer with tactical turn-based combat is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Blood will be Spilled has you follow Jack, a mosquito bounty hunter on his path of revenge voiced by Elias Toufexis (Adam Jensen from Deus Ex) and it's coming to Linux.

A small update on the status of BATTLETECH for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
We've had a number of users get in touch about BATTLETECH and we have a small update for you in regards to the Linux version.

Play It Now - Invisible Inc

By scaine,
Welcome to the another review in the PIN (Play It NOW) series. Conscious that all previous PINs have been action games, this time I’m covering Invisible Inc from Canadian studio Klei Entertainment, a superb stealth/strategy hybrid in the mould of XCOM.

DXVK expands with Direct3D 10 over Vulkan in Wine, also info on the new Direct3D 9-to-11 project

By Liam Dawe,
There's so many incredible things going on around Wine right now it's hard to keep track. DXVK is now expanding to support Direct3D 10 over Vulkan in Wine. There's also a new Direct3D 9-to-11 project to convert Direct3D 9 programs to Direct3D 11.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is looking real good in the latest videos, Linux version should come in the first couple updates

By Liam Dawe,
Insurgency: Sandstorm is the new tactical FPS from New World Interactive that will be coming to Linux. There's new videos out to show it off and we have an update for you about Linux support.

SC Controller, incredibly useful UI/Driver for the Steam Controller has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
If you ever have issues with games not picking up your Steam Controller correctly, you should probably take a look at the excellent SC Controller project.

Rings of Saturn is a hard sci-fi, top-down space simulator coming soon to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Space sim Rings of Saturn was announced earlier this month, with a promise of a realistic top-down experience and it actually looks surprisingly good.

Open-world vehicle builder 'TerraTech' has left Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
I absolutely love games that let me build something, drive around and blow stuff up so I've been enjoying my time with TerraTech which is now out.

Hard rock musical comedy metroidvania platformer 'Bad Pad' officially released

By Liam Dawe,
Sometimes games get practically no attention which is such a shame, Bad Pad is one such game that deserves a little more as it's actually pretty good.

Set Phasers to fun! Stage 9 lets you explore the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Are you as excited as I am about the news of Sir Patrick Stewart returning as Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek series? Well, now you can nerd out in style with Stage 9 which let's you explore the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation.

Real-time tactical RPG 'City of the Shroud' has a Linux demo build available for testing

By Liam Dawe,
City of the Shroud, a real-time tactical RPG just recently launched on Steam and it turns out it's had a Linux demo build for testing for a long time, with hardly anyone stepping up to check it out.

Gladiabots, the AI combat arena now has a test release for Linux on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Fancy having a team of robots you program with drag and drop AI fight in an arena? As that's exactly what you will be doing in Gladiabots.

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy now has a Linux build for testing

By Liam Dawe,
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a rather popular punishing climbing game, made as a tribute to Jazzuo's 2002 B-Game classic 'Sexy Hiking' and it now has a Linux build.

DXVK 0.65 is out for Vulkan-based D3D11 in Wine, fixes for Monster Hunter World, Yakuza 0

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK continues to astound me in both the speed of development and just how much it can do. This Vulkan-based layer to provide D3D11 in Wine has matured with another new release.

Kingdom Rush Origins to release on Steam in the next few months, looks like Linux will be supported

By Liam Dawe,
I have no idea how long it's been a thing that Kingdom Rush Origins would be making it's way to PC, but it seems it will release soon.

Comedy cosmic horror adventure 'Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure' has a new trailer and Steam page

By Liam Dawe,
Ahead of a release that will be "Soon!", the comedy cosmic horror adventure Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure has a new trailer and the Steam page is now live.

The GOG weekend sale has some great Linux games like Darkest Dungeon and Ziggurat

By Liam Dawe,
If you need something to keep you going across a rainy weekend (rain has returned to my part of the UK, a lot of it too) then head on over to GOG as their weekend sale is pretty good.

Valve have hired another developer to upstream SteamOS driver changes, including Xbox One S rumble support

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais announced on Twitter that they've hired Andrey Smirnov to help them get some SteamOS changes upstream into the main Linux Kernel.

Graveyard Keeper releases August 15th, should include Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Despite the SteamOS icon (meaning Linux support) no longer showing on Steam, tinyBuild confirmed to us today via email that the plan is to still have a Linux version of Graveyard Keeper at launch.

Language learning game Lingotopia to release on August 16th with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
If you fancy learning a new language, Lingotopia might make it less of a chore as this adventure game has you play as a little girl shipwrecked on the shores of a strange island.