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Welcome to this new series of reviews, called Play It Now. With PIN, I’ll cover amazing games that you might have missed. They’re not big titles, they’re not all that recent, and maybe they just didn’t get the limelight they deserved. They’re all great games that I’ve either enjoyed playing, or that I’m still passionate about today. Here, we'll look at Flamebreak.

Humble are doing a pretty good bundle once again with the The Humble Daedalic Bundle 2018 that has some good Linux games.

Scoundrel is a 2D stealth game with rogue-lite elements from developer Bullish Games and it looks surprisingly sweet.

Gladiabots is a rather interesting game I took a look at earlier this year. You setup a team of robots, construct their AI and hope for the best. It's coming to Steam now too.

Feral Interactive have announced today that Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will officially release for Linux on Thursday, June 7th. It will be another port powered by the Vulkan API.

Uber Entertainment have said that they're going to continue working on the RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with a new team.

After a slight delay, GOG now has the damn good six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' on their store along with the Linux version.

With news doing the rounds about the latest update to macOS, it turns out they're finally admitting they're doing nothing with their support of OpenGL and it's to be deprecated.

For those wanting to view them, the Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online including one with a Feral Interactive developer talking about porting with Vulkan.

Feral Interactive aren't just hard at work porting more awesome games to Linux and showing off new teasers, they're also patching up Rise of the Tomb Raider.

You've probably seen all the rumours and now it's official with the Microsoft announcement, they're acquiring GitHub.

It's hot outside, meaning you all want to stay in and play games right? GOG have you covered with their summer sale.

Think you're tough? Unworthy might test that theory of yours with a promise of a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania experience.

The PSP emulator, PPSSPP, recently had a pretty big release which now defaults to Vulkan as the main renderer.

Oxygen Not Included, the fantastic space-colony sim from Klei Entertainment is set to get even more interesting in the Cosmic Upgrade that's now in beta.

Underworld Ascendant, the action RPG that's due out this year with Linux support has a fresh trailer showing off some new gameplay.

The rather interesting sounding RPG, Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, has managed to finish Kickstarter with enough funding to continue and it's confirmed for Linux.

It's been quite a while since we heard much about the Linux version of Cosmic Star Heroine, seems like it may come soon.

This metroidvania title has you facing off the scourge of biological life to save your robotic utopia. After spending my time blasting everything with a pulse I have a few thoughts to share.

Though there’s still a long way to go before the game is polished and complete, I found that the initial build has a few promising things that you can enjoy already.