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Murder Miners FPS Now On Linux In Beta

By Liam Dawe,
We mentioned that Murder Miners was on its way to Linux, and it has arrived already in beta form! I tested it out very quickly earlier, and it seems to run perfectly.

First-Person Adventure 'Pulse' Released On Humble And Steam

By flesk,
Pulse is an adventure game about a girl who lost her sight at an early age, and who is able to explore the world through sound.

Organ Trail: Director's Cut Big New DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Organ Trail: Director's Cut was a pretty cool game when I tried it a while ago, and it's great to see it has been updated again with a huge DLC.

Retro Flight Simulators Under The 'Falcon Collection' Now On GOG For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
We have been treated to some more retro gold here folks, as the Falcon games are now on Linux thanks to the team at GOG.

Larian Rep Responds To Criticism Over The Linux Delay Of Divinity: Original Sin

By Liam Dawe,
A fellow on the official Steam forum for Divinity: Original Sin has been commenting to Linux users criticising the delay, and it's an interesting read.

Friday Livestream, Now With More GL4, Starting At 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Yesterday I spent some time upgrading my main rig to Xubuntu 15.10. I did that because I heard of a PPA that contains Mesa drivers compiled against LLVM 3.8. What that means is that I can do GL4 on RadeonSI. And that's what we will do today!

System Shock: Enhanced Edition Coming To Linux, Native Port

By Liam Dawe,
Heads up gamers! System Shock: Enhanced Edition is coming to Linux, and the developer said on twitter it will be a native port.

Valve's Steam Controller Now Has A Later Shipping Date

By Liam Dawe,
All pre-orders should still be delivered on time, but if you order them from now you won't get your Steam Controller until December.

Descent: Underground Released In Early Access On Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Descent: Underground has released into Early Access on Steam, and I took the punt and a look for you.

There's A Possibility Of Just Cause 3 Coming To SteamOS/Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A recent Polygon article that covered Valve's new hardware has some information from Valve, and it's not entirely clear, but it looks like Just Cause 3 could come to Linux.

Natural Selection 2 Updated With Much Faster Load Times

By Liam Dawe,
I forget that Natural Selection 2 is on Linux, mainly due to the dying player base and how dog slow it was to load, but it seems they are finally taking steps to improve that part of it.

Nuclear Throne Updated To Include Weekly Challenge Map

By Liam Dawe,
Nuclear Throne is something of a dark horse, it doesn't look like much, but damn is it good when you get into it.

RC Mini Racers Could See An Updated Linux Port

By Liam Dawe,
RC Mini Racers was originally available for an older version of Ubuntu in the USC, but there's a much newer version on Steam. The developer is seeing how much interest there is in having it on Steam.

Kingdom, A Sidescrolling Strategy Game Released For Linux, Some Initial Thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Kingdom is an interesting looking 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management game, and GOG provided a key for me to take a look.

Magicka 2 Now In Beta For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Oh man, what a day. First Insurgency, and now Magicka 2 both being in Beta for Linux. Update: It's now downloading.

Tactical FPS 'Insurgency' Now Available on Linux In Beta Form, Woohoo

By Liam Dawe,
I have been waiting for Insurgency to come to Linux for over two years, and I'm glad to see the developers start to really make a push for us.

Time To Break Out Of Prison As 'The Escapists' Is Now On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Escapists is now available on Linux, so we can now take a light-hearted look at being a prisoner and try to escape.

Digging Up A 1999 Fossil With Freespace 2, Have You Tried It? It’s Excellent.

By Liam Dawe,
Freespace 2 is a space combat simulator game from way back in 1999, it may be old, but it has an official open source engine and you should really give it a run.

Toby: The Secret Mine, A Very Well Made LIMBO-like Platformer

By Liam Dawe,
While I’m not usually a fan of platformers, my mind has somewhat been changed thanks to Broforce. Today I checked out Toby: The Secret Mine and came off feeling pretty good about it.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Delayed For Linux, Again

By Liam Dawe,
This is starting to be a repeating joke now, of promise after promise and delay after delay. Now with the Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition that was supposed to be a day-1 release for Linux, it has also been delayed.