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Total War: ATTILA looks like it's preparing a Linux & SteamOS version

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: ATTILA has recently popped up on SteamDB with pointers towards a Linux & SteamOS version finally coming.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition for Linux & SteamOS is in testing

By Liam Dawe,
The founder of Larian Studios has confirmed on twitter than the Linux and Mac versions of Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition are currently ready, and undergoing testing.

Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks Now Available

By BTRE,
The latest expansion for the popular grand strategy game, Europa Universalis IV, is now available. Hordes get a lot of shiny new features but there's a lot of new internal and diplomatic options introduced as well. It's been released alongside a massive patch that improves things for all players.

OpenMW 0.37 released, now with the new OSG renderer

By Samsai,
It seems to be the season for new versions of excellent open source gaming projects. OpenMW, the open source recreation of the Morrowind engine, has a new version which brings important rendering updates.

The most popular Linux gaming articles for November 2015, 137 in total

By gamingonlinux,
Here is a look back at the 20 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for November 2015, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux Gaming!

New Linux Gamer Survey For December

By Liam Dawe,
Pinch, punch, first of the month! As the saying goes...time for our latest monthly survey to complete!

Craft the amusement park of your dreams with Parkitect, now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've been keeping an eye on Parkitect for quite some time, reading up on the development now and then as it looked promising. They have just release their Linux version, and it's already bringing back glorious memories of binge playing Theme Park.

The Dark Mod became more graphically impressive in their last update

By Liam Dawe,
We missed covered the last update to The Dark Mod back in February, and I'm glad someone emailed it in as its becoming quite impressive.

SkyScrappers is an amusing 2D 1-4 player competitive fighting game now on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
SkyScrappers is deceptively simple looking, but I've been playing it a bit with the brand new SteamOS & Linux release and I've found it to be a pretty fun little fighting game.

A very special livestream tonight, keyboard and mouse vs Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe,
We interrupt your regularly scheduled broadcasting with an important announcement. Tonight at around 7:30 PM UTC myself and Samsai will face off in a livestream. We will see if a Steam Controller can beat a mouse and keyboard.

Rocket League should be on Linux before the end of December

By Liam Dawe,
A forum post from one of the Rocket League team has stated that the game will be on Linux before the end of December.

The Escapists and all of the DLC now DRM free on GOG for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have now put up the Linux versions of the original The Escapists along with all the DLC, so you can begin your DRM free escape adventures.

Some thoughts on Xenonauts the XCOM inspired strategy game, now it’s native on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I love XCOM, you should all know this by now. It’s one of the best strategy games available on Linux, and the original was one of the first games to ever suck me in. So, with Xenonauts now being native on Linux, I decided to finally take a look at it.

The Zotac Steam Machine ZBOX NEN SN970 impressed OC3D in their review

By Liam Dawe,
Some good news about the whole Steam Machine parade, OC3D did a pretty long review of the ZBOX NEN SN970 and they liked it so much they gave it an award.

Western style top-down shooter '12 is Better Than 6' released on Steam for Linux

By flesk,
12 is Better Than 6 was funded on Kickstarter last month and is already available as a full release on Steam.

Wine 1.8-rc2 released, brings more stability

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine developers are continuing towards a stable 1.8 released, and they have released Wine 1.8-rc2.

You there, come watch the Friday Livestream at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
After a long week of exams (school stuff, not medical) I'm glad I can finally sit down and relax a bit while playing video games. Naturally I'm going to take you with me on my digital adventures of epic and awesome, so sit tight and buckle up for the Friday Livestream!

GOG have put up some serious classics for Linux, such as Cannon Fodder

By Liam Dawe,
I do love GOG for their classic games, and what a delivery they have for us today, wow! Cannon Fooder 1 & 2, Leisure Suit Larry Greatest Hits and Misses and Sensible World of Soccer 96/97.

Our Games Republic store has a sale on, and we have an extra discount for you

By Liam Dawe,
For those who don't know already, we have our own store on Games Republic. Since it's 'Black Friday' we also have an extra discount available!

A 2015 Thanksgiving Retrospection About The Open Source Project 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy,
xoreos (a F/OSS reimplementation of Bioware's Aurora engine) developer DrMcCoy reflects on the project's progress over the past year, and offers thanks to supporting contributors and the community.