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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.

X4: Foundations to come to Linux with one of the next major updates

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Entering my inbox recently was an update on the roadmap for X4: Foundations, Linux is still in their plans but that date isn't too firm yet but we now have an idea of when it might be.

Some information on why Wine is not going to be using DXVK

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It seems things aren't all rosy between CodeWeavers and DXVK, as developer Henri Verbeet has written into the Wine Development mailing list to give more details.

Explore space DRM-free with Helium Rain now available on GOG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Free from the restrictions of planet Earth, the space exploration, trading and action game 'Helium Rain' from Deimos Games has officially become DRM free on GOG.

Dark sci-fi adventure 'Orphan' lands on Linux and it's quite a ride

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Orphan is a dark and quite chilling adventure from developer Windy Hill, with a pretty impressive atmosphere.

Pogo looks like a completely ridiculous 3D physics platformer, now supported on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I will admit, this one looks completely silly. Still, games don't need to be super serious to be enjoyed.

Source Engine powered sword battler 'Blade Symphony' has another update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another game from Puny Human was updated recently, this time it's the sword battler Blade Symphony which is powered by Valve's Source Engine.

The next version of Lutris will allow you to search for more games directly from the client

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Lutris, the rather advanced game library manager is currently going through some major improvements with the 0.5.0 release that's in Beta. The latest new feature, is a rather nifty one.