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A fourth release candidate is out for Wine 5.0


By Liam Squires-Hand
With a full release expected a bit later this month, Wine 5.0 has a fourth release candidate up to get in some last testing.

Police Stories gives you more chances to practice your tactics with custom missions


By Liam Squires-Hand
Mighty Morgan keep improving their tactical top-down shooter Police Stories, with an update landing last month adding in a Custom Mission mode.

The Humble Choice bundle is up for January with 12 games to pick from


By Liam Squires-Hand
Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) has a new set of games up for January and this time there's 12 to pick from.

Some of our most anticipated games for Linux in 2020


By Liam Squires-Hand
A new year has arrived, so let's have a quick look over some of the most promising titles to be coming to Linux across 2020. There's plenty to be excited about.

Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine


By Liam Squires-Hand
Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Survive the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in Z Dawn, recently released for Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
One missed from early last month is Z Dawn from GoldenGod Games, a fast-paced turn-based survival strategy game about getting through the zombie apocalypse.

With wireframe-like visuals, the dungeon crawler Der Geisterturm is releasing this month


By Liam Squires-Hand
Graverobber Foundation are back with another dungeon crawler, after previously releasing Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship they're releasing Der Geisterturm / The Ghost Tower later this month.

My top 5 Linux games released in 2019, those that truly won me over


By Liam Squires-Hand
As 2019 is now properly over and done with, it's time to take a quick look back. Here's some thoughts on the Linux games released that sat above the rest.

Looks like EA might be banning Linux gamers using Wine to play Battlefield V


By Liam Squires-Hand
A heads up: there's been reports of people being banned by EA and having EA claim their ban will stay, for playing Battlefield V with Wine + DXVK.

Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release


By Liam Squires-Hand
Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.

You can now easily control the AMD Wraith Prism RGB colouring on Linux with CM-RGB


By Liam Squires-Hand
Thanks to an open source project, you can now quite easily adjust the colouring on the fan of the AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler.

The remaster of turn-based RPG 'Stoneshard: Prologue' is now available on Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Stoneshard: Prologue acts as the demo for the upcoming Early Access release of Stoneshard, a tough turn-based RPG inspired by Diablo and classic roguelikes.

Set in a comic-book world with Metal Slug inspired visuals, Fury Unleashed is coming to Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
I do love a good action-heavy platformer and Fury Unleashed from Awesome Games Studio looks pretty intense.

Deck-building rogue-lite RPG, A Long Way Down, entering Early Access this month


By Liam Squires-Hand
A Long Way Down mashes together elements of an RPG and a deck-building game, as you attempt to escape a maze and it's coming to Linux later this month.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine aiming for Vulkan support by 'mid 2020'


By Liam Squires-Hand
Juan Linietsky, lead developer of the FOSS game engine Godot Engine has written a retrospective article while also going over future plans for Godot Engine.

devilutionX, an open source game engine for the original Diablo sees a big release


By Liam Squires-Hand
devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.

Event Horizon drop a new teaser for their upcoming RPG Dark Envoy, releasing this year


By Liam Squires-Hand
Dark Envoy from Event Horizon (Tower of Time) is an upcoming non-linear RPG inspired by the likes of the Divinity series, XCOM, FTL, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

Mike Shapiro drops a cryptic message from G-Man for the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx


By Liam Squires-Hand
Half-Life: Alyx is set to release in March this year, and while we don't yet know what exactly is happening with Linux support it's still an exciting time.

Indie building and automation sim 'Factorio' has surpassed two million sales while in Early Access


By Liam Squires-Hand
Wube Software announced recently that their indie building, mining, crafting and automation game Factorio has now managed to pass two million sales before it's even finished.

Monolith: Relics of the Past extends the excellent shooter with a ridiculous amount of extra content


By Liam Squires-Hand
Monolith's twin-stick rogue-lite room to room shooting is practically perfection, it didn't need an expansion but I'm glad Relics of the Past exists so I can sit and play a huge amount more.