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Kickstarter launched for Space Sandbox Avorion - Journey to the Center of the Galaxy

By Philipp Erhardt,
After 4 years of development, Indie Game Studio Boxelware launches Kickstarter for Avorion, a Space-Sim Sandbox Game for Windows and Linux. The game is planned to be available on Steam through the second half of 2016.

8-Bit Armies, an awesome looking retro RTS from Petroglyph could come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I love RTS games and 8-Bit Armies looks really awesome, the developers have talked about a Linux version, but there's so solid answer. It's time to show how many people want it.

Watch Feral play the soon to be released Tomb Raider for Linux on Youtube now

By Liam Dawe,
Did you miss the Feral livestream that showed Tomb Raider running on Linux? You can now watch it on Youtube.

The Humble Devolver Bundle has a few decent Linux games for cheap

By Liam Dawe,
Humble have done a good one this time! The Humble Devolver Bundle has some pretty decent Linux games going for cheap.

SpeedRunners exits Early Access with official Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
SpeedRunners, a pretty popular multi-player running game that pits players against each other is now officially out and available on Linux.

Duskers developers planning official Linux support, current beta works well

By Liam Dawe,
Duskers is the rather unique strategy and survival game in procedurally generated worlds. You pilot drones into spaceships and figure out what's going on.

Nekro has been abandoned by one of the creators, the story isn't so clear

By Liam Dawe,
Nekro, a game funded on Kickstarter with $158,733 which isn't a small amount of money has been officially abandoned by one of the developers. Sadly though, the story isn't very simple.

Super Cane Magic ZERO, a comedy action RPG in Early Access for Linux (video and thoughts)

By Liam Dawe,
I finally decided to check out Super Cane Magic ZERO, a game I purchased on a whim back in January. The game is rather silly and I actually quite like it.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair released with day-1 Linux support

By BTRE,
The second entry in the Danganronpa series of games has been released today with day-1 Linux support. Players can expect even more murder-mystery, expanded gameplay and general zaniness.

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare on Linux with the Steam Controller (video and thoughts)

By Liam Dawe,
A user requested after the second part to my overall thoughts on the Steam Controller that I check out Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, so I did. I captured it on video, and you can now watch my failure.

Vector 36, a physics-based racer set on Mars is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to requests from the community, the developers of Vector 36 have ported their futuristic physics-based racer set on Mars to Linux!

FootLOL: Epic Fail League now on Linux, looks hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
Now this looks like the kind of Football or "Soccer" (silly word) game I could get into. A game all about cheating and destroying your opponents team—love it!

Steam Controller on Linux part 2, more thoughts & more issues

By Liam Dawe,
A while ago I did a write-up of the Steam Controller on Linux, and now I’ve had a few more months with it, I’ve tested out the gyroscope some more, and some games not really meant for a gamepad.

Feral Interactive release the Linux system requirements for Tomb Raider (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive have started the week by increasing the hype for the Linux release of Tomb Raider. They have now released the system requirements! Article Updated.

Paradox posts pictures of Hearts of Iron IV development on Linux

By Segata Sanshiro,
It’s no secret that Paradox Interactive has been on the forefront of Linux gaming as both a publisher and developer of games. However, it’s still exciting to see screenshots of Linux on official development posts, especially when the contents of the posts themselves are pretty interesting.

Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, an African Fantasy Action-RPG is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan looks and sounds like it might be a pretty fun game, and the developers have confirmed a Linux version is currently in-progress.

RuneScape Linux-native NXT client available to pre-load, they also have a trailer

By Liam Dawe,
The brand new Linux-native RuneScape client "NXT" can now be downloaded to have it ready for the big release on the 18th. It does have issues though.

Open source Morrowind game engine OpenMW releases 0.39.0

By Liam Dawe,
The awesome open source Morrowind game engine has released 0.39.0, bringing a lot of fixes and a few bigger features.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.8 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.8 has many small changes including 26 bugfixes.

Testing The Talos Principle OpenGL vs Vulkan again, now that Valve have fixed the Steam Overlay

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just recently published a new Steam beta, and they have fixed up the Steam Overlay rendering issue that was causing it to bring down Vulkan performance. I've run some fresh tests on my Nvidia 980ti to show you the difference now with it on vs before.