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Tower Unite, a community-based virtual world party game is now on Linux in beta

By Liam Dawe,
Tower Unite is an interesting MMO, it's a community-based virtual world full of other games to play online. An interesting concept, sounds a bit like Second Life to me.

Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters released with a free scenario editor, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to my contact at Paradox, I have been able to test the new Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters DLC before release. Here are my thoughts on it.

OneShot, an atmospheric top down adventure game, will be available December 8th

By BTRE,
The enhanced remake of this indie game will be getting a Linux release on launch. Players will be able to explore a mysterious world where their actions have consequences and multiple endings abound.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update release, new group lobbies feature and crates

By Liam Dawe,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the popular FPS from Valve has another update with one rather interesting feature. You can now join game lobbies made by members of Steam groups you belong to.

A Little Less Desperation, a point & click adventure game in a comedic sci-fi setting is heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of 'A Little Less Desperation' emailed in to let me know that their sci-fi comedy point & click game will be heading to Linux. It's currently on Kickstarter with a few days left and it's fully funded. It even has a demo!

The super slick itch games client has another major update, faster than ever

By Liam Dawe,
I can't help but love all the work itch are doing, especially since they have one of the nicest game clients available. They have just pushed out yet another major update.

'Battle Chasers: Nightwar' is a visually stunning RPG inspired by a comic, that might be released next year

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
I think this title has a lot of potential, because after a successful Kickstarter campaign the developers claim they were funded by Nordic Games without sacrificing the creative control of the project, so basically the quality of the game now simply relies on how talented they are and how well they spend the budget on the game.

X-Plane 11 now in beta, also has a demo available

By Liam Dawe,
X-Plane 11 is nearing release, so the developers have put up a beta and a demo of the beta for you to try before you buy.

Tomorrow is your chance to help me defeat Feral in Dawn of War II

By Liam Dawe,
Tomorrow at 1PM UTC I will once again face off against Samy from Feral for your viewing pleasure on Twitch, but remember you can join in too!

VK9, the open source project to implement d3d9 over Vulkan continues to improve

By Liam Dawe,
VK9, formerly known as 'SchaeferGL' is an open source project that aims to implement d3d9 over Vulkan.

Space colony sim 'Maia' updated, creatures will invade your base and more

By Liam Dawe,
I am keeping an ever watchful eye over Maia hoping that it eventually gets polished up enough to be something great. This new update sure does sound nice, but sadly the game still lacks a lot of polish.

Find the meaning of life in 'Sisyphus Reborn', an atmospheric short free adventure on Steam

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
If you're looking to play an adventure game but you don't have a lot of time, then you may be interested to check "Sisyphus Reborn", a lightweight (300 MB) and short existential adventure that will only take you 40 minutes to finish (and that includes getting all the achievements).

The Station, the first-person narrative sci-fi game has been Greenlit and reached its Kickstarter goal

By Liam Dawe,
This is really great news! The Station, one of those promising upcoming games I covered recently has not only been Greenlit, but they have hit their Kickstarter funding goal too.

Valve seems to have removed the SteamPlay logo from Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Something that didn't go unnoticed was that Valve has removed the SteamPlay logo from Steam store pages.

Feedback needed for our 'Linux Game Of The Year Award' that will start soon

By Liam Dawe,
We've run a GOTY award for the last two years and this year will be no different! I am requesting feedback!

You might want to avoid the Nvidia 375.20 driver, Nvidia recommend downgrading

By Liam Dawe,
Just a word of warning, the Nvidia 375.20 driver seems to have quite a number of issues in certain games bringing performance down a lot.

'The Final Station' released on Linux

By sobkas,
I'm very glad to see that after a long journey, The Final Station has finally arrived at the Linux platform, with a hefty discount this Autumn Steam Sale.

My top list of must-have strategy games on Linux as of right now

By Liam Dawe,
Are you a new Linux gamer wondering what strategy games we have? Or perhaps you’re just in the mood for something new! Here’s my current top list of Linux strategy games.

Some nuts Black Friday deals for Linux gamers to make note of

By Liam Dawe,
I have done a little search and come up with some interesting stuff that you might want to look into for a good deal.

A 2016 Thanksgiving retrospection about the open source game engine 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy,
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II.