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Starlight Inception Space Combat May Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2013

Starlight Inception is a relevant first person / third person space combat experience with elements of exploration. It has a unique blend of action with an involving storyline.

Raspberry Pi Support Has Landed In SDL2

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2013

Good news if you are a Raspberry Pi fan as SDL2 now supports it, which does mean technically in future more games could work on it.

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The Dead Linger Zombie Survival Horror Will Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2013

The Dead Linger is the definitive zombie apocalypse survival horror experience! Set in a planet-sized, procedurally generated world, survivors learn to fight, run, and survive against the never-ending and relentless zombie hordes.

Estrange Half-Life 2 Mod Act I (Beta) Released

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2013

Estranged is a work in progress mod that tells the story of a lone fisherman whose ship is stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm.

The Raven: Legacy of A Master Thief Trilogy Is Now Complete

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2013

'The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief' is a thrilling crime adventure in three chapters from the creators of 'The Book of Unwritten Tales'.

Don't Starve Has Another Content Update

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2013

Klei Entertainment sure are awesome with their support of Don't Starve giving it yet another content update.

New Frictional Games Teaser Site

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2013

So it seems the creators behind Amnesia and Penumbra series are up to something with a new teaser website!

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Eschalon Book 3 RPG Beta To Come November

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2013

Good news RPG fans, your waiting for Eschalon Book 3 is nearly over with their latest news post, currently in alpha they expect the beta to start in November.

Valve Announces New Controller For SteamOS, Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

Valve has unveiled the final announcement and it's a controller and it's a very peculiar looking device.

Wwise Audio Middleware To Support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine (Wwise) is an audio library game developers can use license to use in their games.

AMD Announces Mantle Graphics API

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

So AMD has announced a low level graphics API that will be cross platform (no actual platforms stated yet though). This will make things very interesting that's for sure.

CLARK, An Isometric Puzzle-Arcade Game On Greenlight

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

CLARK is an isometric, grid-based puzzle game with fast paced arcade elements. It features comic style visuals in various different graphical themes.

Half-Life: Source Now Out Of Beta For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2013

While Steam's store doesn't actually list a Linux icon for it, Valve announced on the official community hub for Half-Life: Source that it's now available for Linux.

Planetary Annihilation Enters Beta With Lower Price & More Features

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2013

This is very exciting especially for any RTS fan as Planetary Annihilation has entered beta which unlocks more features and lowers the price.

Heavy Bullets FPS Dungeon Crawler With Video

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2013

Heavy Bullets is an FPS dungeon crawler from Terri Vellmann in the early stages, but already very promising, with its bright colours and fun enemies it's already fun.

Valve Announces Steam Machines, You Can Win One Too

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

Valve have announced SteamOS, their own operating system based on Debian Linux that will be placed on a variety of gaming machines due for release in 2014.

Crypt Run Action RPG Available To Pre-Order

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

Death is just the beginning in Crypt Run, an action RPG where a new world awaits each time you play! Available to preorder now on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Achron Time Travelling RTS Game Updated

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2013

A new major bugfix update to Achron has been released to fix a lot of bugs and a few minor new features. Glad to see this games continues to be supported.