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Pixel Princess Blitz, a roguelike sandbox action RPG that plans Linux support is on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
1
I don't cover too many crowdfunding projects, but Pixel Princess Blitz does look pretty entertaining. It also features full Linux support with no stretch goal.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera looks set to get a day-1 Linux release

By BTRE,
17
The upcoming RPG and spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment should be seeing a simultaneous release across all platforms.
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The Linux GOTY award is now open for voting

By Liam Dawe,
28
That's it folks, it's time to get voting! The Linux GOTY award is now officially open for votes. You get one vote per category.
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A Valve developer has released a tool to debug AMD graphics cards on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
8
Andres Rodriguez sent in a message to the mesa-dev mailing list announcing 'gputool' for debugging AMD graphics cards on Linux. It's also open source under the GPL, so that's awesome.
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How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU

By Liam Dawe,
57
My original guide on how to help fix screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU is a bit dated, so here’s an even easier way.
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Verdun, the WWI FPS has added the Scottish in a free update

By Liam Dawe,
1
The Verdun developers have continued their work to add to the interesting WWI FPS and today the Scottish folk make their entry into the game.
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Inexor, a fully open source fork of the FPS game Sauerbraten

By Liam Dawe,
4
It seems some developers got fed-up with some assets of the FPS game Sauerbraten being restricted, so they have forked it into the Inexor project.
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Lugaru campaign now fully playable in Overgrowth, Lugaru HD now fully open source including the data

By Liam Dawe,
13
Two interesting bits of news for you! First up, Wolfire Games have updated Overgrowth with another alpha build and the Lugaru campaign is now finished. On top of that, Wolfire has made the data files for Lugaru HD fully open now too.
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Be sure to join the big 'BeatFeral' game event in Company of Heroes 2 tonight

By Liam Dawe,
1
Tonight at 6:30PM UTC, Feral Interactive are hosting a big 'BeatFeral' event online in Company of Heroes 2.
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Have you tried Switchcars? A roguelike arcade game set in a broken spacetime

By Liam Dawe,
1
Switchcars is a game I've been putting off trying for quite some time to wait for it to get polished up some more, but now I've jumped in at the deep end of this arcade style roguelike.
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Gearend, a cute 2D non-linear exploration game built on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
3
I was sent in Gearend by a reader, as it not only looks like a pretty good 2D exploration game, but it's also developed on Linux.
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Discord announce their Linux client is now officially supported and out of beta

By Liam Dawe,
36
Discord, the insanely popular chat and VOIP client primarily aimed at gamers is now officially supported on Linux and out of beta.
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Observer, a new horror from the 'Layers of Fear' developer and publisher Aspyr Media announced

By Liam Dawe,
9
Observer, a brand new horror from the developers of 'Layers of Fear' has been announced. It's being published by Aspyr Media once again and I have it confirmed it will be on Linux.
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Ballistic Overkill, possibly my current favourite online FPS updated, available in more countries now too

By Liam Dawe,
12
Ballistic Overkill, the really fun and dirt cheap online FPS is now available in more countries! On top of that, they worked on some more optimization.
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NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
15
NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.
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Clean up after a dungeon master and discover secrets in 'Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week'

By Liam Dawe,
1
The developer of Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week emailed in to let us know about their game and it has a rather unusual setting.
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Project Zomboid updated yet again, trading now possible with other players

By Liam Dawe,
0
Project Zomboid has another release pushed to the stable branch of this in-development Zombie survival game. One of the major new features is the ability to trade with other players when playing online.
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Some thoughts on Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the real-time tactics game

By Liam Dawe,
15
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a top-down stealth game from Mimimi Productions released with day-1 Linux support. I have fond memories of games like Commandos, so is it any good?
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Ignition, another classic game re-released on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
8
Thanks to GOG and DOSBox, Linux gamers can enjoy the classic crazy racing game Ignition, which originally released in 1997.
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Lars Doucet, a game developer, is asking Valve to open source the Steam Controller software

By Liam Dawe,
11
Lars Doucet, developer of Defender's Quest has written up a reddit post requesting Valve to open source the Steam Controller software.
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