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The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy now released

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The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy has been released! Read on to learn about its origins, its creation and its legacy.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance doesn't look like it will come to Linux any time soon

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a game built with CryEngine looked like it was going to be a fantastic game to have on Linux, but the developers have told me it "is not possible technically".

Developer of Starsector fighting stolen artwork from Generic Space Shooter

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Never a nice thing to write about, but important to know. It turns out the newly released Generic Space Shooter is using content taken from the indie game Starsector.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair announced for April, Linux support looks included

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Good news Danganronpa fans as Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair looks like it will support Linux on the April 18th release.

How big is Linux gaming? Some estimates

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I keep reading comments that Linux gaming is pretty much stagnating and not worth investing in because it is still at around 1% in the Steam Hardware Survey. So I decided to try and find some numbers.

AMD could be back in the CPU performance game with Zen

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Thanks to wccftech (and our IRC for the link) I have learnt today that AMD's new processor design named Zen is shaping up very nicely.

Sunday fun: Theme Hospital on Linux using the open source CorsixTH engine

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It has been quite some time since I mentioned CorsixTH, and I bet some of you don’t even know it exists! Theme Hospital is a brilliant game from many years ago where you build your own hospital.

OVERLOAD from the original Descent developers has been funded

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Good news for fans of six-degree-of-freedom-shooter games, as OVERLOAD has been officially funded on Kickstarter.

A new Steam Client Beta adds new Steam Controller features

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I do love my Steam Controller, and Valve really are doing some amazing work with it. This latest update adds a pretty big new feature.

Moving Hazard, an interesting Unreal Engine FPS where zombies become a weapon

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Moving Hazard has captured my interest, and the developers mention that they definitely want to release on Linux. Time to show our support for it.

Knights and Merchants strategy game to return to Linux using Wine, now in beta

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Knights and Merchants was originally a LinuxGamePublishing (RIP) title, and sadly the port source code must have gone with it. Topware Interactive now have a Linux beta available on Steam that uses Wine.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition patch out now for Linux

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There's a pretty big patch out for Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition that fixes a number of issues, and shows Larian is supporting their game well.

Ashes of the Singularity developer thinks Vulkan will make Linux gaming viable

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PC Perspective spoke to Dan Baker from Oxide Games about Ashes of the Singularity and the developer seemed pretty happy with Vulkan and what it could mean for Linux.

Yes, it's indeed Friday Livestream time today at 6 PM UTC!

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Glorious Friday has arrived and that naturally means livestreaming! The Friday Livestream will bring you the most mediocre Linux gaming to date live through the magical Internet tubes. So, prepare your receivers and tune to the GOL's frequency for we are going total Tux on this stuff!

Total War: WARHAMMER might not see a day-1 Linux release

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Could be sad news ahead for strategy fans, as the original Total War: WARHAMMER announcement listed SteamOS in the platform list, but their latest messages don't seem too confident.

Croteam releases Serious Engine version 1.10 as free software

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Here's something interesting for the fans of libre software. Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up the source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.

Cossacks 3 shows off old style diplomacy in a new teaser video

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I am really excited to play Cossacks 3 as I love real time strategy games, and the graphics do look great. This new video is a bit of fun showing off "diplomacy".

Release window and publisher announced for hardcore puzzle platformer The Land of Eyas

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According to a new press release, The Land of Eyas will be published by Rising Star Games and will be available this summer.

Rocket League due on SteamOS & Linux very soon [Updated]

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The time of waiting is nearly over, or so they say. A member of the Rocket League team mentioned on the Steam forum it will be due very soon at the end of Q1 2016.

Ubuntu 16.04 dropping the AMD Catalyst/fglrx driver

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Canonical have decided to deprecate the fglrx driver in Ubuntu 16.04. This is hardly surprising news as fglrx, which has always been renowned for being a pain, has steadily becoming more and more of a problem on modern Linux distributions. Even Debian with its tentatively updated packages has surpassed the official system requirements for fglrx.