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Project Zomboid updated yet again, trading now possible with other players

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

Some thoughts on Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the real-time tactics game

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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?

Ignition, another classic game re-released on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Thanks to GOG and DOSBox, Linux gamers can enjoy the classic crazy racing game Ignition, which originally released in 1997.

Lars Doucet, a game developer, is asking Valve to open source the Steam Controller software

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

Last day to submit games to our Linux GOTY awards

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I decided to extend the submission time for our GOTY awards by one day just to give it a bit more exposure to gather a good list.

Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.

Chronicon, a good looking 2D action RPG should come to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The developer of Chronicon has stated that a Linux build will be worked on and should be available in a few months.

Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It’s been a bit of a ride, but we now have it confirmed for sure that Civilization VI is coming to Linux, and the release isn’t far off. We are able to confirm this with permission before the official announcement from Aspyr Media that is due later today.

Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mesa has another patch that will be interesting for Linux gamers. This is actually a two-part fix as it was re-worked. The Witcher 2 should have a lot less black flickering with this latest patch.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown should now work properly with radeonsi

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If you had tried playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown (not to be confused with XCOM 2) on radeonsi and had it crash constantly, the good news is that this should now be fixed as of Mesa 13.0.3.

X-Blades now has a Linux beta powered by Wine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As promised, Topware Interactive have released a Linux beta of X-Blades on Steam that uses Wine to make it easy for you.

Avenger Bird, retro inspired side-scroller is now available on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Avenger Bird, a pretty nice looking retro inspired side-scroller is now available on Steam with Linux support.

Steam hits over 14 million concurrent users online

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Steam has officially hit a new high for concurrent users online, with over 14 million people being online today.

Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Divinity: Original Sin is one game that the open source Mesa drivers currently cannot run without hacks, but it looks like the Mesa team has been testing it.

Multiple statistics have shown Linux market-share doing better than ever

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Good news for Linux fans, as multiple big websites showing off statistics have shown Linux is on the rise!

Join me tonight at 8:30PM UTC for some Portal 2 live

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Tonight for your amusement I shall be attempting to play some Portal 2 live on Twitch. I hate Samsai for making me do this.

99Vidas, a fun-looking beat 'em up, is now available

By BTRE,
If you’ve been feeling like fighting hordes of goons alone or with friends, the new beat ‘em up 99Vidas might be right up your alley. It released late last month with day-1 Linux support.

If you act fast you can grab a key for the demo of Disgaea 2 and it runs on Linux already

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A GOL follower sent word that Alienware are giving out limited keys to a Disgaea 2 demo test. The good news is I got one and it seems the demo already runs on Linux.

Wine 2.0-rc4 released, fixing 28 bugs to make sure the final release is solid

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Wine 2.0-rc4 has been released with 28 bug fixes. It's a pretty quiet release with no new features as they are in a code freeze to prepare the big 2.0 stable release.

Friday Livestream today at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
After the mess that was our multiplayer livestream of 30th of December, we return back to normal programming of Linux gaming brought to you solely by myself. So, strap yourselves to your comfy sitting surfaces and let's go for a ride!