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OpenRA is easily one of my favourite open source projects. It allows us to play early Westwood RTS games like Red Alert and Dune 2000 in a modern engine on Linux. The latest release is a good one too.

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

It seems an Arch update today has broken a few games, several Feral Interactive titles as well as Civilization VI from Aspyr Media no longer run. UPDATED, see the bottom.

Dota 2 has been through a small evolution in the matchmaking to hopefully improve the experience for everyone.

Project Zomboid, the sandbox Zombie survival game that can be played in single-player and multi-player has another major version bump.

We do get our fair share of completely weird games, today's weird one is Peace, Death! You are a Reaper and your task is to correctly decide if people go to Heaven or Hell.

I knew Hollow Knight was going to be impressive when going into it, but I didn't realize how impressive it was.

OpenLara was pointed out to me as it's an open source game engine to run classic Tomb Raider titles on Linux, it also has a WebGL support and a demo to show it off in-browser.

Overload, the six-degree-of-freedom shooter that really surprised me for how good it felt has a major update.

Don’t Touch The Zombies, a game from Tlakali Game Studio is releasing soon with Linux support and it looks like an amusing mash-up of PAC-MAN with Zombies.

A little odd news to start the day today, it seems Games Republic, the store previously owned by 11 bit studios that closed down at the end of last year is coming back online.

Moving things around to their proper position is generally the most basic of puzzle mechanics. Codroids embraces that simplicity and offers an assortment of interesting and challenging puzzles for players to solve. I gave the game a play and have some thoughts to share.

I've been playing with Construct 3 on and off during the beta and I have to say I'm really impressed with it.

Maia is a personal favourite as a game I really love to see grow and it just got a big update. It comes with lots of new and very useful features.

Topware Interactive are revamping Two Worlds II and bringing out a new DLC named Two Worlds II: Call of the Tenebrae. Both will see Linux support on May 25th.

Another week has passed and it's time to dust off the machinery that powers the Friday Livestream. Once more you have a chance to enjoy some live Linux gaming and the near-nonsensical commentary that goes with it, so buckle up and point your browsers at our Twitch channel!

Saints Row 2 is currently free to grab it on Steam for a limit time, so act quick if you don't own it yet. The other Saints Row titles are on sale as well.

Take this with a pinch of salt, since it's early days for his next game, but Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness) actually showed off his next game 'Jai Sokoban' running on Linux.

We see a lot of games get delayed for Linux, but why is this? I decided to ask around about the difficulties facing developers when porting games to Linux. A chat with some well known Linux porters! Warning: Article is on the longer side.

Aspyr Media today rolled out the Spring Update for Sid Meier's Civilization VI for Linux gamers, but sadly cross-platform multiplayer still isn't ready.