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Black Mesa 'Xen' update delayed, screenshots looks beautiful

By Liam Dawe,
Black Mesa, the fan-made Half-Life revamp has delayed the 'Xen' update until much later this year. They've shown off the first shots and it does look good.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS updated and still alive, adds new free commanders and more

By Liam Dawe,
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, the game I wish was more popular to be updated and fixed up more often is, surprisingly, still alive.

The developers of Sombrero: Spaghetti Western Mayhem are looking for Linux testers

By Liam Dawe,
Sombrero: Spaghetti Western Mayhem, a frantic looking party game for 2-4 players is coming to Linux and the developer needs some Linux testers.

Serious Sam's Bogus Detour released with day-1 Linux support, some quick thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is a new top-down action game from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell. The developer was kind enough to send me a key, so here's some quick notes on it.

Cossacks 3 finally in open beta for all Linux users

By Liam Dawe,
Promised many times and repeatedly delayed, Cossacks 3 is now officially in open beta for all Linux gamers.

HITMAN will have the first location available completely free later today

By Liam Dawe,
Io-Interactive's first change to HITMAN as an independent company comes into effect today, as they set the first location in HITMAN free of charge.

Scrap Garden, a pretty simple and beautiful platformer about a lonely robot

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one from my inbox, Scrap Garden, a platformer about a lonely robot who appears to be the last remaining bot after some kind of event left the world in a post-apocalyptic state.

Gemstone Keeper, the very cool ASCII shooter is now on Linux, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Rarely do I like ASCII games, but Gemstone Keeper is one that stands tall as a game you need to check out.

Paradigm, an incredibly strange adventure game will release for Linux soon

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of Paradigm, an incredibly strange adventure game sent out word that it will release for Linux on June 23rd!

Wild Terra Online key giveaway, come grab one

By Liam Dawe,
Wild Terra Online is an indie MMO from Juvty Worlds with a massive open-world. No buildings in the game are built by them, everything is player-built and we have a number of keys for you. UPDATE: All gone!

Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court is now available

By BTRE,
The expansion for the dark dungeon crawler has come out of the shadows. Expect a variety of new blood-sucking monsters and other horrors to be front and center.

Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU

By Samsai,
Inspired by the recent release of Dawn of War 3, I decided to try out the experimental GCN 1.0 support in the new AMDGPU kernel driver and share my experiences.

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth to release with Linux support on August 15th

By Liam Dawe,
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, a video game adaption of a book sharing the same name will release on August 15th by Daedalic Entertainment and it will have day-1 Linux support.

Steam is now available as a Flatpak app via Flathub

By Liam Dawe,
Flathub, a 'central hub' for Flatpak applications have now made a Flatpak of Steam available for Linux users.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Space Odyssey apparently will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Confusing as always, it seems Neil deGrasse Tyson's Space Odyssey will apparently come to Linux after the developer claimed it wouldn't be.

Insurgency: Sandstorm looks absolutely stunning, still planned to release on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
At E3, a new trailer for Insurgency: Sandstorm was shown off and it looks really quite gorgeous. The developers told me Linux is still planned too.

Check out the trailer for the Dawn of War III 'Annihilation' game modes coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
For those that missed the news, Dawn of War III is set to get a new game mode called Annihilation that will come in two variations. There's now a trailer to explain it too.

IO Interactive retains the rights to HITMAN and becomes fully independent

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for fans of HITMAN, as IO Interactive have confirmed they've retained the rights and become a fully independent studio.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Hello there! Another week has passed by and it's time for our weekly ritual of video games and video streams! So, get your snacks and setup your optimal viewing environment for some live Linux gaming brought to you by yours truly.

The first of the free Dying Light DLC will add new enemies

By Liam Dawe,
Techland have sent out another teaser today about the upcoming free DLC planned for Dying Light and it seems some tough new enemies are coming.