I love city/town building games like Banished, Settlers and the like, so a brand new one on Linux was too good to pass up. Here we go with Villagers!
Something I have been speaking about with Topware since 2013 is finally going to happen! Two Worlds II is getting a major engine upgrade, with new DLC and SteamOS & Linux support too.
Good news astronauts! Lifeless Planet is now available in Beta for Linux & SteamOS. Hopefully there aren't too many issues.
Atari Vault launched without the mentioned SteamOS/Linux support, and no mention in their release announcement. I have now managed to get a response for you all.
The developer of X-Plane, a cross-platform advanced flight simulator has written up a lengthy blogpost about Vulkan after going over the spec.
What a surprise. RollerCoaster Tycoon World has seen delays before, and it will now go into Early Access instead of a full release. It has also dropped any mention of Linux/SteamOS from the Steam store page.
The past week has been quite hectic but despite the strain of exams and rapidly approaching deadlines, I will still bring you the Friday Livestream! Come and enjoy some live Linux gaming beamed to your local computer monitor via Twitch!
This is really great to see, and we need more of it. Amos from the game store Itch.io has written up a guide for people pushing out Linux builds of games.
Starbound is still under development, and the developers have been adding some really great features I'm going to highlight.
Valve have pushed out SteamOS 2.67 beta with some minor but useful changes to the compositor, pulseaudio and boot-up. It also fixes as an issue with The Talos Principle.
Human Resource Machine, an indie programming puzzle game by the makers of Little Inferno and World of Goo, sharing their beautiful art style, is now in open public beta.
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is a 3d platforming exploration game from 2002 which has recently gained an HD upgrade for Windows.
This is pretty fun, Valve have opened up the Steam Controller some more with the release of the CAD geometry for it. I wonder what wild versions of it we will see in future?
I mentioned before that Knights and Merchants was coming back to Linux (after originally being ported by LGP). It is now officially available on Steam for Linux after a short beta, and it uses Wine.
Not a long one, but still really nice to see. Intel were at GDC showing off Vulkan running on their hardware.
Syndrome is a brand new survival horror game coming out sometime this summer from Camel 101, and the trailer certainly makes it look good.
Update: It's not releasing then, it was a glitch in their news. Feral Interactive announced today that Tomb Raider will release for Linux on April 1st, so it's going to be a fun weekend!
Good news war fans, as Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces and Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault are now available on SteamOS & Linux.
If you're eager to see how the Linux port of Tom Raider is running, you might want to check Feral Interative's twitch on March 30th at 6PM GMT (So that's UTC+1 as the UK switches to summer time this weekend).
PAYDAY 2 was released without any warning, so I’ve been putting some time into it to see how it runs on Linux.