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Cities: Skylines - Parklife launches this Thursday, get the main game super cheap on Humble Store

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2018

With the release of Cities: Skylines - Parklife on Thursday, it's going to expand the already great city builder with some fun new features. For those who don't have Cities: Skylines yet, it has a massive sale on Humble Store.

Story-driven crafting RPG Crashlands has a huge combat overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2018

Did you find combat in Crashlands a little tedious? Well you weren't alone and now a huge patch is out to revamp it.

Survivors of Borridor is a fast-paced co-op survival game where even a smartphone can be used

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2018

Really like seeing more games do this! Survivors of Borridor, a fast-paced couch co-op survival game where even a smartphone can be used to control a character.

Story-driven RPG INSOMNIA: The Ark has a new trailer showing some darker elements

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2018

Pretty darn excited by INSOMNIA: The Ark, more good-looking story-driven RPGs are a must on Linux. This new trailer is making it sound quite interesting.

Turmoil - The Heat Is On DLC now available on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2018

Just a quick one: For those of you after a casual management game, Turmoil could be a safe bet. GOG just added The Heat Is On DLC too.

Paradox’s grand strategy titles will be getting more content soon

By BTRE, 19 May 2018

At their annual convention, Paradox Interactive have announced new expansions for their current grand strategy titles. There’s a little bit of everything for fans of these games.

FRAMED Collection, a noir-styled spy adventure where you rearrange comic tiles is now out

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

The FRAMED Collection looks like a rather unique experience which recently released with Linux support.

Mesa 18.1 is out with the shader cache on for Intel

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

Open source drivers on Linux have advanced rather quickly and now we have another fresh release out with Mesa 18.1 which was released yesterday.

Drivers
Mesa

Stellaris: Distant Stars story DLC pack releases May 22nd, new trailer is out

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

The latest and probably one of the most exciting story DLC packs for Stellaris, Distant Stars, is now set to release May 22nd.

Myst 25th Anniversary Collection will not being seeing a Linux release for now

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

It seems the plans to team up with Codeweavers to bring Myst 25th Anniversary Collection to Linux didn't work out.

Crowdfunding

A Linux beta build of Solstice Chronicles: MIA may come soon

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

The developer behind the great looking top-down shooter Solstice Chronicles: MIA has said that they may soon have a Linux beta build.

What are you playing on Linux this weekend and what do you think about it?

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2018

It's a weekend, the sun is shining in a rare event for where I live, so naturally I will be spending my time playing Linux games. What will you be playing this weekend?

Misc

Antigraviator, a seriously slick looking anti-grav racer really could see Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2018

I know we often write about games that might see Linux support, but this one seems rather promising. Antigraviator is a very slick and polished looking anti-grav racer.

Valve seem to be tightening their rules on games with sexual content

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2018

News doing the rounds at the moment, is that Valve seem to be tightening their rules concerning games with sexual content.

Steam
Valve

Season swapping action platformer FOX n FORESTS is now out

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2018

FOX n FORESTS is another retro-inspired action platformer, although it does have a slight twist with the season changing mechanic.

Retro-inspired arcade racer Slipstream to release May 21st, developed on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2018

This is great, not long after the rather good release of Horizon Chase Turbo, we have another retro-inspired racer with Slipstream. This one is very interesting, since it was developed on Linux.

Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 23 is now out

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2018

0 A.D. the free and open source RTS from Wildfire Games has a new alpha build available and it's a pretty huge release.

The latest Steam Client update is out, breaks gamepads in Big Picture Mode on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2018

The latest Steam Client update has left beta, bringing the Bluetooth Low Energy mode to everyone with the Steam Controller amongst other things. It also, sadly, broke other gamepad support in Big Picture mode.

Steam

The Steam Link Android app is now out, works quite well so far

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2018

Valve have officially put out a beta version of their new Steam Link Android app, which allows you to stream games from your Linux PC to your favourite device.