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Gladiabots, the robot arena fighting game where you construct their AI is heading to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2018

Gladiabots is a rather interesting game I took a look at earlier this year. You setup a team of robots, construct their AI and hope for the best. It's coming to Steam now too.

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia releases for Linux on Thursday, will use Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2018

Feral Interactive have announced today that Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will officially release for Linux on Thursday, June 7th. It will be another port powered by the Vulkan API.

The RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is to live on with a new team

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2018

Uber Entertainment have said that they're going to continue working on the RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with a new team.

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The excellent six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2018

After a slight delay, GOG now has the damn good six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' on their store along with the Linux version.

OpenGL to be deprecated in the next macOS release, could mean interesting things for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

With news doing the rounds about the latest update to macOS, it turns out they're finally admitting they're doing nothing with their support of OpenGL and it's to be deprecated.

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The Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online, including the one from Feral Interactive

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

For those wanting to view them, the Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online including one with a Feral Interactive developer talking about porting with Vulkan.

A new Rise of the Tomb Raider patch is out for the Linux version

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

Feral Interactive aren't just hard at work porting more awesome games to Linux and showing off new teasers, they're also patching up Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for some loose change

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

You've probably seen all the rumours and now it's official with the Microsoft announcement, they're acquiring GitHub.

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The GOG summer sale is now live

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

It's hot outside, meaning you all want to stay in and play games right? GOG have you covered with their summer sale.

Unworthy is a hardcore combat-focused Metroidvania without jumping that's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

Think you're tough? Unworthy might test that theory of yours with a promise of a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania experience.

PPSSPP emulator now uses Vulkan by default, OpenGL now multithreaded

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

The PSP emulator, PPSSPP, recently had a pretty big release which now defaults to Vulkan as the main renderer.

Oxygen Not Included will expose the surface in a new update that's now in beta

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

Oxygen Not Included, the fantastic space-colony sim from Klei Entertainment is set to get even more interesting in the Cosmic Upgrade that's now in beta.

Action RPG 'Underworld Ascendant' shows off in a new trailer, still heading to Linux too

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

Underworld Ascendant, the action RPG that's due out this year with Linux support has a fresh trailer showing off some new gameplay.

Isometric RPG 'Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness' is fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

The rather interesting sounding RPG, Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, has managed to finish Kickstarter with enough funding to continue and it's confirmed for Linux.

A Linux version of Cosmic Star Heroine is still planned, moving to a higher priority

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2018

It's been quite a while since we heard much about the Linux version of Cosmic Star Heroine, seems like it may come soon.

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition major update out & Darkness Over Daggerford expansion is out

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2018

Two big bits of news today for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition as the first major update is out along with the release of an updated Darkness Over Daggerford expansion.