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An interview with Paradox Development Studios about supporting Linux

By BTRE, 19 Jun 2016

Lately, I’ve been busy playing a lot of Hearts of Iron 4 and Stellaris, as both were day-1 releases on Linux. I spoke with Gustav Palmqvist, a PDS developer who helped make those releases happen on our platform of choice.

The Hive, a rather good looking RTS game has Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2016

I completely missed the fact that The Hive added Linux support some time ago. It's a pretty good looking RTS game that feels a bit like playing the Zerg in Starcraft.

Resolution added to the user stats page, please update your profiles

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

I have done some more work on the user statistics page tonight. I have now included an option to pick your resolution. I will do a regeneration soon once a few people have added theirs so it's not blank.

What are you playing this weekend?

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

It's the weekend already? Oh goodie! Time to dust off that game collection you've been neglecting due to work, school, family or whatever. Tell me what you're playing and what you think to it.

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Titan Quest RPG could see a Linux version in future

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

A developer of Titan Quest commented on their Steam page that they will be looking into Linux and Mac support. Great news, as another positively received RPG would be great for us.

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Want to build a DRM free theme park? Parkitect is now on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

I am totally in love with Parkitect, so many good memories of playing Theme Park on the Amiga came back when I tried it. You GOG fans can now join in the action too.

The Dwarves trailer has me cautiously excited for this fantasy role-playing game

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

Funded on Kickstarter, The Dwarves is from Battle Worlds: Kronos and the highly rated The Book of Unwritten Tales developer KING Art Games. This new trailer has caught my eye.

Explore an alien-infested space station in the roguelike XENOMARINE

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

I love everything to do with the film Aliens, so a roguelike inspired by it is a must play for me. XENOMARINE shows some early promise.

Satellite Reign now has a co-op mode called Uplink which is in beta

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jun 2016

The very cool cyberpunk strategy game Satellite Reign now has a co-op mode named Uplink you can opt into and play with your friends.

Aveyond 1: Rhen's Quest and Aveyond 2: Ean's Quest 2D RPGs released for Linux

By RadialApps, 18 Jun 2016

Fight monsters and explore a medieval world. Aveyond is packed with more than 60 quests, hundreds of places to explore, and over 30 hours of game play. If you like games like Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Warrior, you are going to love Aveyond.

The impressive 2D cyberpunk action-RPG Dex is now DRM free on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

Thanks to GOG for sending in a key to GOL, I got to try out Dex. It's a visually impressive 2D cyberpunk action-RPG.

Trinium Wars MMORPG to get Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

A recently released MMORPG looks like it will come to Linux the developers noted on Steam. Sounds like it's a little on the rough side.

You can now map the Steam Controller's buttons to different key presses and modes

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

The Steam Controller is amazing, I still love it and probably will for a long time. This new update has me in awe.

Broforce now available DRM free on GOG, it's amazing, bro

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

You ready bro? Broforce, probably my all time favourite platformer (yes really) is now available DRM free on GOG.

An update on Insurgency: Sandstorm, Day of Infamy and competitive play for Insurgency

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

Insurgency is supposed to be getting competitive features for the online play, but their UI is holding them up. They have written up a post to explain it and they talk about their new games Day of Infamy and Insurgency: Sandstorm too.

Game porter Ethan Lee on packaging games for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

Game porter Ethan Lee has written up a post aimed at helping developers package their games up for Linux.

Get your weekly dose of the Friday Livestream today at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 17 Jun 2016

Friday arrives with yet another Friday Livestream, so drop whatever you are doing and point your browsers or alternative Twitch players towards our channel for some casual Linux gaming and conversation.

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Entroware have released another beast of a Laptop, worth looking into

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

Entroware, the British (hooray!) Linux-focused hardware supplier have released the Athena and it's a bit of a beast.

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Get ready to become a pirate as Tempest is coming to Linux soon

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2016

Tempest is the awesome looking Early Access naval combat game that we previously mentioned would come to Linux, the developer has now said it will be soon.