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La-Mulana, the free roaming exploration platformer has had a Linux version since early last year on Steam, but now GOG have it too.

It seems UNIGINE have Vulkan firmly in their sights to support it this year, which means their recently released Superposition benchmark could gain support for it too.

ONRAID is a self-proclaimed “challenging 2D shooter” that is heavy on the multiplayer component despite having a lot that you can do by yourself. It’s recently gone free-to-play so I gave it a look to see if it was any good.

Jupiter Hell, a project I personally backed is really showing how to do a Kickstarter properly in terms of Linux support and open communication.

If fighting hordes of enemies with fancifully implausible-but-shooty ranged and melee weapons is what you desire in life, Woodpunk might satiate the need. The developers have recently announced Linux support and are looking for enough votes on Greenlight to proceed.

Crawl is a local multiplayer dungeon crawler, where your friends can control the monsters and it's actually pretty good.

Brawl of Ages is a free to play online 1on1 fast-paced strategy game that recently launched with Linux support. It's being published by S2 Games, who created Strife with a new developer BNA Studios taking the helm.

Minecraft 1.12 development is well under way now and a few development snapshots have been released with some fun new additions. Parrots will be found in many different colours and it sounds fun.

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The newest benchmarking test by Unigine Corp shows off their UNIGINE 2 engine and rather impressive visuals. Get ready to push your GPUs hard!

Cosmic Star Heroine, an indie 2D RPG about saving the galaxy has delayed the Linux version. Another in a long list, sadly.

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition is another revamp of an old classic given new life by Beamdog, a game where death is not the end. You will end up becoming friends with death and get to know it rather well.

A presentation was done about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coming to China, where the revealed Source 2 was coming along with a new UI.

Good news for fans of 2D action and adventure games, as the developers of Hollow Knight have announced it will officially launch for Linux tomorrow.

Topware have been going over their games and giving them Wine-ports where possible. Septerra Core & Jack Orlando are two titles that were previously given this treatment on Steam, but now GOG too.

Yooka-Laylee, the 3D platformer from Playtonic Games has been released with day-1 Linux support, here's some initial thoughts.

Feral Interactive have pushed out another Mad Max patch for the Vulkan Beta, they claim to have improved Vulkan further, so I took a look.

Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps, a mech combat game on Steam now has a Beta available with Linux support baked-in.

I wrote about The Signal From Tölva back in August of last year as it looks amazing. It has now been released on Windows and the developers are still fully open to getting it on Linux.

Classic first-person shooters are without question my favourite video game genre, and it would be nice to be able to sit down and play more Indie games that can satisfy both my classic FPS craving while at the same time pushing the genre forward. Ziggurat attempts to do both, and it wins my respect for that.