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Linux Port Of Platformer 'Giana Sisters' Brought In-House, Sequel Might Get Same-Day Release

By flesk,
After the initial 2014 estimate slipped and it became clear that the outsourced port contained lots of bugs and a whole level missing, the developer, Black Forest Games, has now decided to finish up the Linux version themselves. Last week they also shared some screenshots of the game running on SteamOS.

SteamLUG February Linux Gaming Events

By Cheeseness,
The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for February is up, featuring Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Altitude, Double Action: Boogaloo, BattleBlock Theature and more!

An Update On The Open Source Xoreos Project For Neverwinter Nights 2

By DrMcCoy,
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.

Review: Forward To The Sky Now On Linux

By Keizgon,
Forward to the Sky is a new Steam release indie title based on the idea of taking the Japanese Anime / Visual Novel art-style and incorporating it into a action puzzle platformer with a "run of the mill" campy story.

GOL Survey Results: January

By Segata Sanshiro,
Thanks to GOL reader Fedso, we now have month-by-month comparisons for the survey as well as an automated program which takes the raw survey data and makes graphs. This is pretty exciting stuff since now one of the main goals of the survey project has been achieved and we can observe trends over time.

GOL Cast: Avoiding Zombies, Bugs And DMCA Claims In Dying Light

By Samsai,
So... Dying Light. A triple A day one Linux port. Now that would sound awesome but sadly releasing games in a horrible state is trendy and Techland seems to have wanted a piece of that cake. Let's list the problems, shall we?

Raven’s Cry Released On Linux, Still A Bit Buggy

By Segata Sanshiro,
The open world pirate RPG Raven’s Cry has been released with day one Linux support. Raven’s Cry looks promising in terms of story and setting, featuring historically accurate architecture from the 18th century, a morality system, side-quests and economy system.

The Funding Crowd - Favorites From 2014

By muntdefems,
The TFC team has devoted this post-holiday quiet period to looking back at some notable projects that were funded in 2014.

Gravity Ghost Released For Linux, It's Bloody Lovely

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to a reader we were able to take a look at Gravity Ghost, a charming gravity platformer from Ivy Games LLC.

BADLAND GOTY Edition, An Atmospheric Side-scrolling Action Adventure Platformer Is Heading To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
BADLAND is an atmospheric side-scrolling action adventure platformer set in a gorgeous forest full of various inhabitants, trees and flowers. Although the forest appears to be right out of a beautiful fairy tale, there’s something terribly wrong.

Feral Interactive Are Teasing Another Linux Port

By Liam Dawe,
Even though we still haven't found out what game we teamed up with Feral Interactive to do a competition for, they have unleashed a new radar blip for a new Linux port.

Friday Livestream Time! Join Us At 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
It has been an eventful week and to wrap it up we have our traditional Friday Livestream where we chill out, play games and talk about gaming on Linux in general.

Dying Light Patch Released, Our Thoughts On It, Still Terrible

By Liam Dawe,
Techland has begun their patching of Dying Light for Linux & Windows in their effort to clean up the rather botched release, and we took a look.

Dying Light Is Almost Playable On Linux, If You Do Some Tinkering (Updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to pointers from our community member xpander69, we have found that Dying Light can be played almost acceptably on Linux with some messing around with the files. Updated.

Starbound's Massive Stable Update Released, It's On Sale, And We Have A Server

By Liam Dawe,
Starbound is a fantastic game, and the stable update has been long overdue, but that wait ends right now. The stable update is absolutely massive, and it's really worth trying out.

Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]

By Samsai,
Few days ago the remaster of Fahrenheit popped up on Amazon with Aspyr logos and penguins. Well, it seems that Aspyr is indeed behind the remaster and the Tux was put on there for a purpose. Behold, the next Aspyr Linux port is here!

Outlast, That Really Scary Game Looks Like It's Still Heading To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Good news folks, thanks to a comment on a recent article we were poked about taking a look at the progress of porting Outlast to Linux, and it seems to have a new private Linux build in testing.

GOL Cast: Fragging Bots And Testing New Maps In Xonotic

By Samsai,
We would like to interrupt our stream of news about AAA games and bring you some critique on the new Xonotic 0.8 version. So, enjoy!

Out There: Omega Edition, A Hard Sci-fi Space Exploration Game Now In Beta For Linux, My Thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Out There: Omega Edition has landed on Linux in the form of a beta, and it's a game we have been eagerly waiting for. Thankfully I've had some time to test before the official release, and here are some thoughts.

Darksiders Linux Port Looks Like It Is Still Happening

By Liam Dawe,
Darksiders is another big game we are excited about, and sadly the current people in charge of the port haven't replied to our messages, but thanks to SteamDB we can see it's still happening.