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Hollow Knight adds free content alongside update

By BTRE,
4
The beautiful hand-drawn platformer has gotten a rather sizable update today. Those intrepid explorers intent on discovering the secrets of Hallownest can look forward to new challenges and encounters.
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A few thoughts on The Heart of the Earth, a challenging platformer

By BTRE,
1
This puzzle-platformer challenges players with rotating levels full of hazards. I gave the game a spin and have a few thoughts to share.
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Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn will allow you to play as a customized robotic civilization

By Liam Dawe,
7
Paradox has announced the next DLC for Stellaris named 'Synthetic Dawn' and it promises lots of goodies.
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GOG adds the Linux version of Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

By Liam Dawe,
7
Another bit of lovely DRM free GOG news for you! GOG just added the Linux version of the rather splendid and destruction-heavy Brigador: Up-Armored Edition.
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Better late than never, GOG now has the Linux version of Dust: An Elysian Tail

By Liam Dawe,
20
Dust: An Elysian Tail released for Linux a few years ago and now GOG finally have the Linux version available too.
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Linux desktop market share hit an all time high in July, according to one measure

By Liam Dawe,
45
Here's a bit of positivity for you today! According to the statistics gathered by the netmarketshare website, in July the percentage of people using Linux on the desktop hit an all time high.
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Lots of changes could be coming to the Serious Sam games on the Vulkan Fusion engine

By Liam Dawe,
5
Serious Sam Fusion is Croteam's Vulkan-powered game engine that covers many Serious Sam games and it seems they have some plans.
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Epic Games looking to make Vulkan the default API for Linux games in Unreal Engine

By Liam Dawe,
22
Epic Games have done a talk at SIGGRAPH 2017 and it turns out they're looking to make Vulkan the default API for exported Linux games.
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Valve finally update their old Groups system, no longer will we be spammed with group invites

By Liam Dawe,
3
The Groups system on Steam has been left to rot a little, but Valve have finally decided to update it. This also removes the ability for spammers to spam group invites out, something I complained about only recently.
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Cossacks 3: The Golden Age DLC announced, releasing this month

By Liam Dawe,
10
For those of you enjoying Cossacks 3 you might be pleased to know another DLC is on the way! Cossacks 3: The Golden Age is planning to release on August 24th.
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Tacoma, the sci-fi narrative adventure has released with day-1 Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
36
Tacoma, the sci-fi narrative adventure from the developer of Gone Home has officially launched. It includes day-1 Linux support so I took a look.
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Linux game sales statistics from multiple developers, part 5

By Liam Dawe,
174
It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but here’s part 5 in the series of me talking to developers about how their games have been selling on Linux.
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Want to compare your Steam library with Wine compatibility? There's a script for that

By Liam Dawe,
19
I was recently sent an interesting little script that will compare a downloaded list of your Steam games, with the Wine AppDB to show you a list of what you can expect to be able to play with Wine.
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The Darkside Detective, a supernatural point & click adventure is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
6
The Darkside Detective, a supernatural point & click adventure recently released with day-1 Linux support and it looks good.
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Morrowind continues living on, with a fresh release of the open source OpenMW game engine

By Liam Dawe,
8
A fresh release of OpenMW, the open source game engine to play Morrowind has been released. There's not a huge amount of new features, but there's a lot of fixes.
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Slime Rancher has officially left Early Access, go catch some slimes!

By Liam Dawe,
4
Slime Rancher, probably one of my top 10 indie games has just left Early Access joining the world of fully released games.
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SimAirport, an airport design and management game is looking for Linux testers

By Liam Dawe,
8
SimAirport aims to be a modern tycoon-style game where you build and manage every aspect of an airport. It's coming to Linux and the developers are looking for some testers.
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The Silver Case, a remaster of the original 1999 title is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
9
Today we gain another remaster of a classic game. This time it's 'The Silver Case' which originally released in 1999, many years later it was remastered and released in 2016 and now we have it too.
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Pizza Connection (Pizza Tycoon) now has the Linux version with DOSBox on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
0
Pizza Connection (also known as Pizza Tycoon) was released on GOG thanks to DOSBox back in January, now Steam has this classic for Linux gamers too.
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The absolutely beautiful parkour game 'Downward' has updated the Linux version to the full release

By Liam Dawe,
1
Downward is an extremely impressive and downright beautiful parkour game. Recently it left Early Access, but the Linux version was a bit behind, now it's not!
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