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The super fun six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' has another major update

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2017

I will be honest, I think when Overload is finished it might end up being the absolute best six-degree-of-freedom shooter on Linux. Let's take a look at the latest update!

The open source game engine Godot adds support for glTF 2.0

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2017

The open source game engine Godot has added support for glTF 2.0, the open standard from Khronos. It's a royalty-free specification for the transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by applications.

Wine 2.14 released, quite a quiet one but it fixes issues with a few games

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2017

The next Wine development release is here with Wine 2.14, it's quite a quiet one but here's what's new.

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Awesome looking fighting game 'Blade Symphony' looks like it's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2017

Blade Symphony, a fighting game involving some fancy swordplay looks like it will come to Linux along with their free to play update.

Sudden Strike 4, a short teaser video of it running on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

With thanks to Kalypso Media, I have early access to the new strategy game Sudden Strike 4. Here's a quick look at how it runs, a full review will come at release.

Hollow Knight adds free content alongside update

By BTRE, 3 Aug 2017

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.

A few thoughts on The Heart of the Earth, a challenging platformer

By BTRE, 3 Aug 2017

This puzzle-platformer challenges players with rotating levels full of hazards. I gave the game a spin and have a few thoughts to share.

Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn will allow you to play as a customized robotic civilization

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

Paradox has announced the next DLC for Stellaris named 'Synthetic Dawn' and it promises lots of goodies.

GOG adds the Linux version of Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

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.

Better late than never, GOG now has the Linux version of Dust: An Elysian Tail

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

Dust: An Elysian Tail released for Linux a few years ago and now GOG finally have the Linux version available too.

Linux desktop market share hit an all time high in July, according to one measure

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

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, 3 Aug 2017

Serious Sam Fusion is Croteam's Vulkan-powered game engine that covers many Serious Sam games and it seems they have some plans.

Epic Games looking to make Vulkan the default API for Linux games in Unreal Engine

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

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.

Valve finally update their old Groups system, no longer will we be spammed with group invites

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

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.

Cossacks 3: The Golden Age DLC announced, releasing this month

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2017

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.

Tacoma, the sci-fi narrative adventure has released with day-1 Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2017

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.

Linux game sales statistics from multiple developers, part 5

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2017

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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.

Want to compare your Steam library with Wine compatibility? There's a script for that

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2017

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, 2 Aug 2017

The Darkside Detective, a supernatural point & click adventure recently released with day-1 Linux support and it looks good.

Morrowind continues living on, with a fresh release of the open source OpenMW game engine

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2017

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.