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Broken Lines will bring a story-driven tactical RPG in an alternative WW2 setting to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

With quite good looking graphics and gameplay that has me wanting to see more, Broken Lines could be a good tactical RPG for Linux and it's releasing later this year.

The very unique block breaking shoot 'em up Sky Racket has a release date

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

Releasing on October 22nd, Sky Racket is a shoot 'em up that's also a bit like Arkanoid/Breakout. A strange mix but it works well!

Wild West styled city builder Depraved has left Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

A city builder with survival elements and a Wild West theme? Sign me up! Depraved just recently left Early Access.

Hilarious looking multiplayer physics fighting game Havocado adds a Linux build

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

Here's a bit of a win for a Wednesday morning. The developer of the multiplayer physics fighting game, Havocado, added a Linux version.

A developer from Epic Games adds an offscreen video driver to SDL 2

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

Something that came across the desk this morning is a note about Epic Games contributing to the cross-platform development library SDL 2.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By , 25 Sep 2019

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

D3D9 over Vulkan gets even better as D9VK 0.21 'Lollihop' is out

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Developer Joshua Ashton continues doing some great work, as another release of the D3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK is out.

Space Grunts 2 combines a turn-based rogue-like with card-based battles, out now

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Orangepixel just released their latest game Space Grunts 2, keeping a similar approach to the original with the roguelike experience and turn-based battles only this time with cards.

Imperator: Rome has a big free 'Cicero' update out now with some major changes

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Paradox have just launched a big free update to their struggling new strategy game Imperator: Rome, which might help to turn things around for it.

Twitch now officially sponsor OBS Studio development and more in the latest progress report

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

I honestly don't know where we would be without OBS Studio now, it's a fantastic bit of free and open source software for recording videos and doing livestreams. It seems Twitch agree.

The Long Dark is celebrating five years since release, Episode 3 of the story due in October

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Five years ago in September 2014, The Long Dark entered Early Access as a rather unique take on the survival game genre. Later in November 2015, it also released for Linux.

Steam's top releases for August 2019 are out, here's our usual look over

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Another month has passed and Valve have just now put up a post going over some of the big new releases on Steam for August.

Another Steam Client Beta is up, fixing a Linux issue and some Remote Play problems

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Valve have again released another update to the Steam Library beta. There's still a lot of issues with it but they seem to be getting through the major problems.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-6 is out with newer DXVK, support for The Surge 2 and GTA 5 launcher fixes

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

Valve and CodeWeavers have once again updated Steam Play Proton as they react quickly to issues that appear.

Post-apocalyptic semi open-world RPG 'Death Trash' is now being self-published, Early Access next year

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

Death Trash is one of those games that you see it and you feel like you absolutely need to play it. Thankfully, a playable release is now not too far away.

The current Weekly Sales on GOG have some quality roguelike and RPG experiences for cheap

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

The DRM-free store GOG have recently put up another two Weekly Sales, both running until September 30th and there's some quality Linux gaming to be had for cheap.

Mystery adventure game Jenny LeClue - Detectivu is officially out now with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

After a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2014 and some delays, the super stylish adventure game Jenny LeClue - Detectivu is officially out now with same-day Linux support as promised.

Historical turn-based 4X strategy game 'BOC' sounds intriguing and it's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

Planned to be released on Steam and GOG (if GOG approve) after an upcoming Kickstarter campaign, BOC seems like a very interesting turn-based 4X coming to Linux.

Running DOSBox games from Steam on Linux just got better with a fresh release of Boxtron for Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

Love your classic games? Have a lot of those classics on Steam? You need to grab Boxtron, the unofficial Steam Play tool that allows you to use a native DOSBox with Steam games even if they don't have a Linux build up.

Snowtopia: Ski Resort Tycoon is heading to Steam next year, early build to try on itch.io

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

Up for playing another building and management tycoon game? Snowtopia: Ski Resort Tycoon is one we talked about briefly back in January and it seems to be progressing along nicely.