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Sentinel, A Tower Defence Game With Dynamic Music Available For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2014

As a music lover and a fan of Tower Defence games this has me interested. Sentinel is an interactive audio tower defense game. It mixes strategic game play with a dynamic music system.

SteamLUG May Linux Gaming Events

By Cheeseness, 23 Apr 2014

The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for May is up, featuring Nuclear Dawn, Frozen Synapse, Gear Up, Sanctum 2 and more!

Starsector, An Open-world Single-player Space-combat, Roleplaying, Exploration and Economic game

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2014

Starsector previously known as Starfarer is a game I have been following since early 2011 and I am glad to say it's still being fully worked on. Starsector is an open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration and economic game.

Because, A Fast Paced Arcade Shoot-em-up

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2014

This is a long named game, "Because this is literally the best we could come up with: Retribution" hah nice. It's a very pretty looking arcade shooter and quite random (you can fire cheese!).

The GDC Video On Approaching Zero Driver Overhead in OpenGL Is Now Up

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2014

We mentioned before about a couple big names talking up OpenGL and how to unlock many times performance gains with it, the GDC video is now up in the vault for all to see.

Editorial

Project Zomboid Survival Game Has A New Major Update, Our Video & Thoughts Included

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2014

Project Zomboid is one of the few survival games that actually shows a lot of promise, not only because of the frequent updates, but it now has online support too. This latest version adds even more new features.

AMD Releases 14.4 Release Candidate Graphics Driver

By Liam Dawe, 22 Apr 2014

AMD have pushed out a public Release Candidate of their 14.4 driver for users of AMD graphics chips. Nice to see them include change-logs now.

Hardware

Portal 2 Mod Thinking With Time Machine Coming To Linux

By , 21 Apr 2014

A modification for Portal 2 that allows you to manipulate time and interact with yourself to solve puzzles.

Contested Space, A Space MMO Sandbox Game Seeking Funding

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2014

Contested Space is one of the more interesting titles to appear recently, I've played around with it and it's actually pretty fun, especially fun is designing your own ships.

Star Citizen Video From PAX, Featuring Game-play & Looking Stunning

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2014

Star Citizen is a game you cannot help but get excited over. A new video has surfaced from PAX where parts of the game where shown off and it doesn't disappoint.

Tabletop Simulator Released Into Steam Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2014

There seems to be a lot of "x Simulator" games coming out recently. Tabletop Simulator aims to simulate a ton of different board-games with some funny results.

KartSim, A Multiplayer Kart Racing Game

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2014

It's all well and good us having "SuperTuxKart", but KartSim looks fantastic and aims to be much more realistic. With great graphics, sounds and customization!

Nuclear Dawn FPS/RTS Hybrid 7.1 Released, Bringing Linux Out Of Beta

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2014

As promised by our editor Cheeseness the current guys in charge of Nuclear Dawn have released version 7.1 which brings Linux out of beta and with it the ability to play with Mac and Windows users now too.

Infectonator : Survivors Plans To Infect Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2014

Infectonator Survivors is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defence, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. Currently in Steam's Early Access and it caught my eye, luckily the developers told me they have plans for Linux.