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Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion sails out of Early Access, Linux supported

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2016

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion is a pretty big expansion to the really great survival game Don't Starve. It is now fully available and features Linux support.

Xamarin announces Mono will be put under an MIT license

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2016

Pretty nice news here. Recently Microsoft purchased Xamarin the creators of Mono, and now it will be opened up under the MIT license.

Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, big milestone

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2016

I have double checked this, and it seems to be accurate. Linux now has 2,000 games on Steam, and that's a pretty healthy milestone.

EVERSPACE, a fantastic looking 3D space shooter with roguelike elements coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2016

EVERSPACE is an incredibly beautiful looking 3D space shooter that takes elements from roguelikes that was funded on Kickstarter. They smashed their funding goal, and it's heading to Linux now too.

Epistory - Typing Chronicles, an atmospheric adventure typing game now fully released

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2016

Epistory - Typing Chronicles the unique atmospheric adventure typing game is now fully released. I have taken a look to see what you might expect.

Banished Linux port is pretty much complete, OpenGL performing well

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2016

The developer of Banished has written an official blog post on the Linux & Mac porting progress, and it's sounding really great.

CHKN is probably the weirdest sandbox game I've ever seen, coming to Linux on April 1st

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2016

This is not an April fools I assure you. CHKN is a sandbox survival game about creating life, and life looks weird.

Children of Morta, a beautiful narrative-based roguelike hack’n slash coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2016

Children of Morta is a discovery I'm really happy about, as the animation and art style is just simply amazing.

Wyrmsun, the retro-themed & open source RTS is now free on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2016

Wyrmsun is an open source RTS game that released on Steam a while back, and it's now switched to being free.

Verdun, the WWI FPS has a free expansion release, game is now broken on Linux (now fixed)

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2016

Another developer not even testing the Linux game even once before pushing out a big update. This time sadly it's Verdun, the interesting WWI FPS.

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, a roguelike space adventure with spaceship combat

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2016

I've been testing out a little bit of the fantastically named Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space today, and here's some thoughts. It came to Linux last month, but probably went under most gamers radar as it didn't go in the new releases section.

Developers of ARK: Survival Evolved facing a lawsuit from the Dungeon Defenders devs

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2016

Oh dear, oh dear. The developers behind ARK: Survival Evolved (Studio Wildcard) are facing a lawsuit from the developers behind Dungeon Defenders (Trendy Entertainment). The games are very different, but it's a people issue here.