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Check out the trailer for the Dawn of War III 'Annihilation' game modes coming soon

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2017

For those that missed the news, Dawn of War III is set to get a new game mode called Annihilation that will come in two variations. There's now a trailer to explain it too.

IO Interactive retains the rights to HITMAN and becomes fully independent

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2017

Good news for fans of HITMAN, as IO Interactive have confirmed they've retained the rights and become a fully independent studio.

Editorial

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 16 Jun 2017

Hello there! Another week has passed by and it's time for our weekly ritual of video games and video streams! So, get your snacks and setup your optimal viewing environment for some live Linux gaming brought to you by yours truly.

Livestream

The first of the free Dying Light DLC will add new enemies

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2017

Techland have sent out another teaser today about the upcoming free DLC planned for Dying Light and it seems some tough new enemies are coming.

Planet Nomads expands again with gamepad support, customizable key bindings, FOV slider and more

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2017

Planet Nomads, the utterly gorgeous sandbox survival game has a fresh update out that adds in plenty of extremely useful features.

CRYPTARK, the rather excellent roguelike 2D sci-fi shooter launches on June 20th

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2017

CRYPTARK, a roguelike 2D sci-fi shooter from Alientrap that I think is damn good is officially launching on June 20th.

SteamOS has another new beta with a newer Kernel and updated Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

For those of you using SteamOS, you might want to know about a new beta Valve just put out. It features the usual security updates as well as a few other niceties.

SteamOS

Two Worlds II RPG delayed for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Bad news RPG fans, as Topware has delayed the Linux release of Two Worlds II as they are having 'huge problems' with it.

AMDGPU-PRO Driver 17.10 updated, fixes Mad Max on Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Even though AMD already did an AMDGPU-PRO Driver 17.10 release, they've done another one with the same name. Confusing as ever, but this newer driver has some useful fixes.

AMD
Drivers

Looks like Dying Light is set to get more free DLC

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Techland sent out a bit of a teaser today which claims a bunch of new DLC are on the way for Dying Light.

Come join in the Dawn of War III madness tonight, which will be live on Twitch

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Tonight is the first of hopefully many community gaming events! For the next month (at least) we will be playing Dawn of War III online and you're all welcome to join.

Livestream

Some thoughts on LandTraveller, the rather sweet top-down RPG

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

LandTraveller released into Early Access recently and it looked promising, so I decided to take a look at this cute top-down RPG.

Jelly in the sky, a new take on the old 2d artillery games featuring physics may come to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Jelly in the sky is an amusing looking physics powered 2d artillery game and the developer is looking to bring it to Linux.

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap looks like it's coming to Linux, porting work by Ethan Lee

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Looks like game porter Ethan Lee is a busy bee, as he teased out some shots of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap running on Linux.

Dawn of War III should now work on Mesa-git with OpenGL as Bindless Texture support is in

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2017

A large patchset from Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset landed in Mesa-git early today to hook up Bindless Texture support for AMD radeonsi.

Steam Direct launches as Valve gave the greenlight to many of the remaining 3,400 games left

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2017

Steam Direct, the self-publishing option to get games on Steam has launched. Valve have also said they gave the greenlight to many of the 3,400 games that were still left in Greenlight when it closed.