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XCOM 2 patch now live for Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
XCOM 2 has been fixed up quite a bit in this first patch now available for Linux & SteamOS. I've tested it myself, and it's a far nicer experience now.

Friday Livestream is coming at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Friday has arrived and it's once again time for the traditional Friday Livestream! Come and watch me play some Linux games and join in on the discussion about Linux gaming and whatever else we may end up talking about!

Totem Teller looks like a really sweet open world adventure game coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Arehandoro sent word in about Totem Teller, and wow it looks really something. Totem Teller is an open world adventure. The player explores, repairs and retells a broken story. Uncover lost characters and hidden things. Truth is in the Telling.

Deponia Doomsday coming to Linux on March 1st

By Liam Dawe,
The latest in the Deponia series is heading to Linux on the 1st of March named Deponia Doomsday. The previous games looked great, and they are pretty popular.

Our Linux & SteamOS gamer survey results for January 2016

By Liam Dawe,
Blimey, another month already? That's right here's the results of our latest Linux & SteamOS user survey.

After 4 years in development, Factorio is coming to Steam

By Teal,
The amazing and unique "logistics simulator" where you build massive convoluted factories while fending off hordes of insect aliens is finally coming to Steam on 25th February!

Shadwen, the new stealth game from Frozenbyte has a playable Linux demo

By Liam Dawe,
Shadwen looks like it might turn a few heads at release, and it certainly seems like it could be interesting to me. There is now a demo available to try out.

Battlestation: Harbinger is a fantastic roguelike space exploration game for SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've been having a bit of fun with Battlestation: Harbinger for the last few days, and I've actually found it to be a pretty good mix of mix of roguelike, action, strategy and more.

Steam Client Beta updated, fixes issues with lots of games on newer distributions

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the problems I recently had with Dying Light? Turns out it was the fault of Steam. The new beta client should fix issues people have with various games on newer distributions. It also adds a new experimental feature for the Steam Controller.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc now available on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc a popular anime styled visual novel is now available on Linux & SteamOS.

Nvidia Vulkan Driver updated

By Liam Dawe,
Heads up Vulkan testers, Nvidia has updated their beta Vulkan driver for Linux. It should work better with newer kernels too.

Humble Indie Bundle 16 launches, great selection with Sunless Sea now officially on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Indie Bundle 16 has launched with seven lovely games, one of which has only just become officially supported on Linux.

Square Enix comes to SteamOS & Linux, Hitman GO: Definitive Edition released

By Liam Dawe,
Not to be confused with the other popular Hitman series, this new entry is a strategy game set in the Hitman universe.

Insurgency: Sandstorm realistic FPS announced for SteamOS & Linux, will use Unreal Engine 4

By Liam Dawe,
You guys love Insurgency right, the awesome FPS game that came to Linux last year? Well Insurgency: Sandstorm is coming with some Unreal Engine 4 goodness, and Linux is confirmed.

Open Source game engine Godot has a new major release, lots of new stuff

By Liam Dawe,
I do hope Godot becomes popular, as it looks like it has some really great features and it's fully open source!

NeonXSZ glides out of Early Access, a 6 Degrees of Freedom shooter for SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Originally due for release days ago, but the developer delayed it due to the big Steam sale. NeonXSZ has been worked on by the developer for four years!

Stainless Games announce another Carmageddon game, Linux & Mac gamers not happy

By Liam Dawe,
Stainless Games have announced Carmageddon: Max Damage for consoles (PC comes later), but they still haven't put out promises left over from the Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter. Promises like a Linux version, a Mac version and others.

Anatomy, an intriguing horror game created by an auteur developer on Itch.io

By HadBabits,
This past week I played a small game by an interesting character who goes by Kitty Horrorshow. To call her games horror in a conventional video game sense would be misleading. They're abstract, graphically primitive, albeit striking, and tend to leave me with a lingering sense of dread and loneliness, as well as a sense of otherworldly wonder.

Haemimont Games the developer of Tropico & Victor Vran on doing Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Haemimont Games have written up a pretty nice blog post about doing Early Access with Victor Vran, and it's a nice read for games and developers.

PPSSPP, the open source PSP emulator has a major new version, will use Vulkan in future

By Liam Dawe,
For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.