Latest News

This past week I played a small game by an interesting character who goes by Kitty Horrorshow. To call her games horror in a conventional video game sense would be misleading. They're abstract, graphically primitive, albeit striking, and tend to leave me with a lingering sense of dread and loneliness, as well as a sense of otherworldly wonder.

Haemimont Games have written up a pretty nice blog post about doing Early Access with Victor Vran, and it's a nice read for games and developers.

For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.

Zombasite genuinely impressed me when I played it back in October, and it's really good to see development going strong on this ARPG. It has a new trailer, feast your eyes.

Ethan Lee, porter behind quite a few decent Linux titles recently did a talk at MAGFest and his slides can now be downloaded. UPDATED: We now have audio too.

It sounds like Dota 2 with Vulkan isn't far off, as an Intel developer working on mesa has had access to it.

Want to play a 6-degree-of-freedom shooter created by the original Descent developers? OVERLOAD should fit into that category for you.

Thanks as usual to SteamDB, it looks like the Linux/SteamOS and Mac ports of Evolve might still be happening.

For those that missed it, the Vulkan Webinar that was held by Khronos Group is now available on Youtube.

Plague Inc: Evolved, a game all about making the deadliest pathogens to wipe out the human race, has now officially released as a version 1.0 on Steam and brings in some co-op features.

SteamOS is the console OS from Valve to turn PCs into consoles, but with PC things you love such as the ability to mod and use PC software. But it puts them in an easy to use package with a controller on the TV and removes some hassle that operating systems like Windows, Mac, Ubuntu (or other Linux distributions with a desktop GUI) and FreeBSD includes.

At times Linux ports are lacking quite a bit, but some like Total War: ATTILA actually run pretty damn close to Windows performance.

Bridge Constructor Stunts will not only see you building the bridges to get to crazy positioned points, it will see you driving the vehicles too.

The current Humble Weekly Bundle: Orbyt Play offers six games of which are three for Linux and one that is partly supported by now. Only one of them is DRM-free, the others are Steam-only.

I know you lot love your simulators, so how about Construction Simulator 2015? The developer has a Linux build, but it needs testers.

Heads up Vulkan fans, The Talos Principle beta has been updated to include the Vulkan build for Linux gamers to test out.

Hello there, I am here to inform you that you have been invited to the Friday Livestream to watch me destroy the (fictional) world with (fictional) pathogenic nightmares. So take a seat and set up a quarantine for we are doing biological science today!

Valve have also updated the Steam beta client, and it brings in official Vulkan support plus some really handy Steam Controller adjustments.

SteamOS Brewmaster update 2.63 has been pushed to brewmaster_beta, if you are opted into the beta on SteamOS you will get an updated Nvidia driver featuring Vulkan support.

Danganronpa looks like an interesting anime styled detective game. With a lot of mystery, interesting quirky characters and a little case of death. The characters seem to only be rendered in 2D but environments seem to differ between both 2D and 3D.