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Want to see me take on Feral Interactive in Company of Heroes 2? Tomorrow it is!

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2016

Tomorrow at 11AM UTC I will be facing off against Matt from Feral Interactive for the second time at Company of Heroes 2, will he beat me this time? Who knows, but I'm going to have fun and livestream it anyway!

Arma 3 Linux port to update to 1.54 tomorrow, there's more good news too

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2016

Great news FPS fans! Arma 3 will see an update on the Linux port to version 1.54 tomorrow! Not quite the current version, but it's a step closer and there's more good news.

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2016

American Truck Simulator arrived on Linux day one which is fantastic, and I was eventually sent over a key by SCS directly to check it out.

IndieGameStand blog post on Steam key reselling, plus my thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2016

It's always a shame to hear about scammers, especially when it comes to indie developers and smaller stores. IndieGameStand has written a blog post about it and it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

Editorial

Star Citizen update, they are considering Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2016

Chris Roberts has done his usual video update on Star Citizen, and he mentions that they are looking into Vulkan.

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SteamOS stable updated to 2.64, brings Vulkan to the stable users

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2016

For those not keeping track: SteamOS was recently updated to include the changes from the recent 2.64 beta and it brings Vulkan for Nvidia amongst other changes.

Steam

CrossCode, an epic looking 16-bit SNES-style RPG is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

I totally didn't forget to write about this. CrossCode is a rather intriguing RPG that has a style from the SNES era with obvious improvements.

Want to make an RPG game? Looks like RPG Maker MV may be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

I've somewhat followed the RPG Maker program over the years to see it evolve into a tool some decent games have been made from, and now it looks like RPG Maker MV will come to Linux.

DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

What a day to be a Linux gamers! DiRT Rally is also now showing signs that it will be ported to Linux. Another great racing game I have wanted to play, and our first proper Rally game.

Life Is Strange looks like it will come to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

Another game I have really wanted to play, but didn't think it would come to Linux. Life Is Strange is a well reviewed story game based on based choice and consequence.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and expansions look like they are coming to Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

Wow this I did not expect. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and the expansions are showing signs that they will come over to Linux & SteamOS!

A chat with AtomicTorch Studio about their Linux sales with Dinocide & VoidExpanse

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

I had the pleasure of speaking with another developer today about their Linux sales, and this time it was Lurler from AtomicTorch Studio.

StarDrive 2, the pretty good 4X strategy game to get a big expansion

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2016

I was pretty impressed with StarDrive 2 and how it felt like a new generation of Master of Orion 2, so it's great to see it will get an expansion. Check out the video.

Balrum, a beautiful 2D RPG released for Linux, here’s some thoughts on it

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2016

I've been looking forward to trying out Balrum since seeing it on a crowdfunding site some time ago, and now it has had a day-1 release on Linux I got a chance to play with it.

I am launching a Patreon campaign to support me and GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2016

After researching it properly, talking to friends and family who have given their support I have decided based on feedback to launch my own personal Patreon campaign to fund me and the GamingOnLinux website.

Police Infinity, an interesting looking FPS coming to Early Access & Linux soon

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2016

Police Infinity claims it isn't "yet another Unity FPS" and it has my hopes up a little bit. It doesn't look too bad, and the animations in first person look quite nice too. It's due to enter Early Access soon.

A chat with the developer of Quest of Dungeons about their Linux sales

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2016

I asked on twitter for developers to get in touch about their games, and first up is Quest of Dungeons from Upfall Studios. A turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look.

Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II look set for Linux ports soon

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2016

Our friends over at Virtual Programming are hard at work on porting Overlord, Overlord II and Overlord: Raising Hell to Linux. They left a funny little message for us on SteamDB too.

GOL Cast: Growing space potatoes in Sol 0: Mars Colonization

By Samsai, 5 Mar 2016

This time around I am taking a look at a game I picked up some time ago for a Friday Livestream simply because it was cheap. So, let's go to Mars in Sol 0: Mars Colonization!

Linux usage on Steam is better than people think

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2016

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out, and as usual some websites are claiming the death of SteamOS. We are here with a better outlook. We also just recently crossed over 1900 Linux games on Steam!