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Kith: Tales From the Fractured Plateaus, a free short adventure made on Linux

By km3k,
Issue 1 of free isometric adventure series Kith: Tales From the Fractured Plateaus, from the creators of The Maker's Eden, is now available on Itch.io.

Stratus: Battle For The Sky, an RTS styled like the classic Netstorm Islands at War & it's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Stratus: Battle For The Sky looks like a pretty great RTS game, as a fan of the classic Netstorm Islands at War I am looking forward to this different form of strategy game coming to Linux.

Explosive top down shooter 'Kick Ass Commandos' leaves Early Access on Steam, demo available

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
The game finally has its finished version available on Steam since November 17th. If you count all the reviews from Steam users so far, it has collected 187 positive ones against 6 negatives only. There is also a demo available.

Unity 5.5 released, removes legacy OpenGL support

By Liam Dawe,
Unity 5.5 has been released as a pretty major update to this popular game engine. One interesting bit for us is that games built with 5.5 onward will only have access to the modern OpenGL system.

Anima Gate of Memories, a third person action RPG is now on Linux, some quick thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
I have been waiting for this one! Anima Gate of Memories looks fantastic and we don't have many good third person action RPG.

Nearly 4 years later, Steam still won’t close to the tray icon on Linux without workarounds

By Liam Dawe,
In January 2017 it will be 4 years since a bug report was opened about Steam not closing to the tray on Linux. On Windows it works perfectly, but on Linux it has been left to gather dust like so many other issues.

The developers of 'Darksiders' comment on the Linux version, they couldn't fix the issues

By Liam Dawe,
Darksiders was supposed to come out for Linux a long time ago and never happened. The developers haven't forgotten about it, but it seems the issues are proving difficult to fix and they have been busy.

Valve adds OSVR headset support to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
If you want to play games in VR on Steam, the list of compatible headsets just got bigger. OSVR is now a supported option.

The Great Whale Road, a story-driven RPG with turn-based battles is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you're in the mood for a good-looking 2D RPG with turn-based battles you may want to know that 'The Great Whale Road' is now on Linux.

GOG have something mysterious planned for December 1st

By Liam Dawe,
GOG are going all mysterious on us, with their Twitter account simply popping out a big teaser image for December 1st. Time to get our thinking hats on.

Tower Unite, a community-based virtual world party game is now on Linux in beta

By Liam Dawe,
Tower Unite is an interesting MMO, it's a community-based virtual world full of other games to play online. An interesting concept, sounds a bit like Second Life to me.

Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters released with a free scenario editor, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to my contact at Paradox, I have been able to test the new Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters DLC before release. Here are my thoughts on it.

OneShot, an atmospheric top down adventure game, will be available December 8th

By BTRE,
The enhanced remake of this indie game will be getting a Linux release on launch. Players will be able to explore a mysterious world where their actions have consequences and multiple endings abound.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update release, new group lobbies feature and crates

By Liam Dawe,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the popular FPS from Valve has another update with one rather interesting feature. You can now join game lobbies made by members of Steam groups you belong to.

A Little Less Desperation, a point & click adventure game in a comedic sci-fi setting is heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of 'A Little Less Desperation' emailed in to let me know that their sci-fi comedy point & click game will be heading to Linux. It's currently on Kickstarter with a few days left and it's fully funded. It even has a demo!

The super slick itch games client has another major update, faster than ever

By Liam Dawe,
I can't help but love all the work itch are doing, especially since they have one of the nicest game clients available. They have just pushed out yet another major update.

'Battle Chasers: Nightwar' is a visually stunning RPG inspired by a comic, that might be released next year

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
I think this title has a lot of potential, because after a successful Kickstarter campaign the developers claim they were funded by Nordic Games without sacrificing the creative control of the project, so basically the quality of the game now simply relies on how talented they are and how well they spend the budget on the game.

X-Plane 11 now in beta, also has a demo available

By Liam Dawe,
X-Plane 11 is nearing release, so the developers have put up a beta and a demo of the beta for you to try before you buy.

Tomorrow is your chance to help me defeat Feral in Dawn of War II

By Liam Dawe,
Tomorrow at 1PM UTC I will once again face off against Samy from Feral for your viewing pleasure on Twitch, but remember you can join in too!

VK9, the open source project to implement d3d9 over Vulkan continues to improve

By Liam Dawe,
VK9, formerly known as 'SchaeferGL' is an open source project that aims to implement d3d9 over Vulkan.