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Slime-san, the excellent platformer is to get a huge free update this month

By Liam Dawe,
I was extremely impressed with Slime-san when I took a look and it's about to get a huge free content update, in the form of a free DLC.

Stellar Tactics, the space exploration RPG with classless character progression is getting closer to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about Stellar Tactics in October last year, as it looked like a pretty decent space exploration RPG and the developer was planning Linux support. It seems the Linux version is now coming closer!

Shadow of Mordor is currently 80% off and free to play for a few days

By Liam Dawe,
If you still haven't picked up Shadow of Mordor now is a damn good time to try it out. It's 80% off and actually completely free to try for a few days.

Join the fun on our new server for Rust

By Liam Dawe,
You asked, some of you repeatedly and so I listened. GOL now officially runs a server for Rust and you're all welcome to join in.

Take a look at 'The Skirmisher' another new unit coming to XCOM 2's War of the Chosen expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Oh goodie, another new unit that's actually on our side. Let's take a look at The Skirmisher another unit you will find in the War of the Chosen expansion coming to XCOM 2.

ARK: Survival Evolved has just had a price increase, it has more than doubled

By Liam Dawe,
Studio Wildcard seem to repeatedly mess up Early Access for ARK: Survival Evolved. First with a DLC for an unfinished game and now this new eye watering price.

Dawn of War III updated on Linux, we now have the Annihilation mode update

By Liam Dawe,
Good news everyone! Dawn of War III has been updated on Linux today and we now have the Annihilation game modes available.

Move or Die could quite easily be my new favourite game, it's absolutely nuts

By Liam Dawe,
Move or Die was sent over by Samsai during the first part of the birthday livestream today (GamingOnLinux is 8 today!) and it's quite an incredible game.

Steam just keeps growing according to a presentation Valve did recently, UI update is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, Valve did a presentation about Steam during Indigo 2017 which took place in June. The interesting and not surprising thing here is that Steam just keeps on growing.

Having mouse issues in The Long Dark? Here's a quick fix for now

By Liam Dawe,
The Long Dark is a beautiful survival game from Hinterland Studio. It's a good game, but it does suffer from one really annoying and game breaking issue on Linux.

Some interesting changes coming to Rocket League ranked play tomorrow

By Liam Dawe,
Tomorrow Rocket League will be introducing some changes to the way they handle ranked games and it sounds pretty good to me.

Some things developers might want to think about when bringing a game to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I posed a question on Twitter recently where I asked developers to jump in with thoughts on essential things to know about when bringing a game to Linux. Let’s look over some answers!

Sit back and watch a galaxy evolve or take control of an empire in Galimulator

By Liam Dawe,
Galimulator is another fun little find on itch, it's a 'galaxy emulator' where you can watch what happens, or you can decide to take control.

RogueCraft Squadron, a currently free RTS on itch that's showing real promise

By Liam Dawe,
RogueCraft Squadron is another great find on itch. A simple RTS game that has perma-death and upgrades like you might find in a roguelike.

Fending off monsters in 'Colony Survival', some early thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Colony Survival is a new Early Access mix of a strategy game and a survival game with a voxel style, but is it any good?

The Witcher 3 didn't come to Linux likely as a result of the user-backlash from The Witcher 2

By Liam Dawe,
The Witcher 3 is something Linux users have been practically begging to have, but the problem is that it seems it will likely never come to Linux. An ex-Virtual Programming developer has taken to reddit explaining why this may have happened.

Turn a small company into an empire in 'Rise of Industry', it shows a lot of promise

By Liam Dawe,
Rise of Industry (formerly known as Project Automata) is a neat little find on itch today, a simulation game about building a small company into an industrial and financial empire!

Game store itch grows up some more, as Double Fine now have their titles on it

By Liam Dawe,
Really quite amazing news for the itch games store, as more people are finally taking notice. Double Fine now have a good bunch of their titles on it.

Playing though XCOM 2 Shen's Last Gift gave me high hopes for War of the Chosen

By Liam Dawe,
I finally found the time to play through the XCOM 2 DLC Shen’s Last Gift and what an experience it was. This has me really excited for more XCOM 2 with the huge War of the Chosen expansion due later this year.

Aftercharge, a new competitive FPS that should get Linux support sounds very interesting

By Liam Dawe,
Aftercharge seems to break a few rules when it comes to competitive FPS games. You have two rather different sides pitting invisible robots against an invincible security squad.