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Avorion, a procedural co-op space sandbox is now on Linux and it looks awesome

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Avorion promises to give you a big open galaxy to explore fight, trade and construct spaceships in. They claim to remove a lot of micro-management which has me excited and it looks really slick.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By , 25 Jan 2017

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.

Ballistic Overkill major update released, new huge map and private servers

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Ballistic Overkill, my favourite online FPS right now has a new update and it's quite a biggy. It includes a big new map and other goodies.

Wine 2.0 is now officially available

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

I just got the announce email from the Wine team that Wine 2.0 is now officially available. It's an absolutely massive release!

Wine

Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.

Virtual Programming are porting Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

It seems another porting company is starting to work on more and more Linux ports and the year has only just begun! Virtual Programming are working on Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers in addition to the already announced Putty Squad.

It doesn't look like Homefront: The Revolution is going to come to Linux any time soon

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Homefront: The Revolution for Linux was announced with Linux support in 2014 and to this day we still can't get any clear communication on the port.

Editorial

RUNNING WITH RIFLES updated with new vehicles and weapons

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a fantastic top down army shooter and it has a major update featuring new weapons, vehicles and more.

Mesa 12.0.6 released with bug fixes for the older stable version, users encouraged to update to Mesa 13

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Mesa 12.0.6 has released and it brings with it a bunch of bug fixes. While the latest stable version is Mesa 13.0.3, those sticking with the older Mesa 12 will still like their fixes.

Another patch to help The Witcher 2's issues with 'black transitions' has landed in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Marek Olšák sent in another patch to Mesa that is now in Mesa-git which should hopefully be a better fix for black transitions in The Witcher 2 on radeonsi (AMD).

Microsoft announces new DirectX Shader Compiler that's open source

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

It must be a bit chilly in hell today, as Microsoft have announced a new DirectX Shader Compiler and it's open source.

Open Source

Kick Ass Commandos is absolutely nuts, violent and really damn fun

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2017

We had a post before about Kick Ass Commandos from another editor, but now I've given it a go in the full version and here's some thoughts.

Some thoughts on the Shadowrun series

By Hamish, 23 Jan 2017

Shadowrun was not only the first CRPG series I found compelling enough to play through all the way to the end, but one that I also found myself invested in enough to purchase additional instalments soon after playing the first.

Completely unexpected Monday Roguelikely Livestream today at 6 PM UTC

By Samsai, 23 Jan 2017

As you might have noticed, the last Friday Livestream was handled by Liam because I was doing secrety secret things and I will be doing more of the same on next Friday. So, I bring you an unexpected Monday Roguelikely Livestream!

Livestream

Monumental Failure is absolutely hilarious, a game you just need to try

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2017

The developers of Monumental Failure sent over a key for me to test out their hilarious and totally historically accurate game about building monuments.