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The innovative FPS 'Shotgun Farmers' has left Early Access with a tasty update

By Liam Dawe,
Shotgun Farmers is a first-person shooter that's not only good fun, it's also rather innovative with how you collect ammo and weapons.

Cities: Skylines turns four years old, has some impressive stats

By Liam Dawe,
Cities: Skylines, probably the best city-builder available on Linux has turned four years old and Paradox have released some impressive stats on it.

Valve's card game Artifact has lost almost all players and designer Richard Garfield has left

By Liam Dawe,
Not everything Valve does hits the right spot and it seems the final few nails of Artifact's coffin are being hammered in.

A Vulkan renderer is in the works for GZDoom

By Talon1024,
One of the GZDoom developers, dpJudas, has been working diligently on the Vulkan renderer for GZDoom.

Linux Gaming News Punch - Episode 3

By Liam Dawe,
It's the weekend again and that means another episode of the Linux Gaming News Punch, a bite-sized podcast giving those with little time a chance to keep up. Coming in at just under 8 minutes, here is Episode 3.

Proton 3.16-8 beta is out for Steam Play with DXVK 1.0 and game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Just before the weekend appears, we have the brand new Proton 3.16-8 beta available for Valve's Steam Play. This release includes some mighty fine fixes and updates.

The incredible looking 16-bit fantasy RPG Chained Echoes is fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Remember Chained Echoes? It's a fantasy 16-bit RPG with dragons, airships and mech units that sounds crazy when put together but it does look good. It's also now fully funded!

The match-2 solitaire card-game 'Faerie Solitaire Harvest' is coming to Linux this year

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Subsoap has teamed up with Puppy Games to publish Faerie Solitaire Harvest, which will be coming to Linux at release.

Swordfighter 'Blade Symphony' has now officially gone free to play

By Liam Dawe,
For those who wanted to try their hand at a little sword-fighting, Blade Symphony is now officially free to play on Steam.

In 'Merchant of the Skies' you will build a trade empire in the skies with the help of your airship

By Liam Dawe,
Merchant of the Skies was just announced this week, a peaceful trading game with a little base-building management thrown in.

Danger Gazers is another rogue-lite shooter coming to Linux and it looks pretty good

By Liam Dawe,
Danger Gazers is the latest game from ShotX Studio following on from Dead Ground and Kontrakt and it will support Linux once again.

The latest major update to the RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is out

By Liam Dawe,
Planetary Annihilation Inc continue to make massive improvements to Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with the latest major build now live.

Ethan Lee's MAGFest presentation video about Proton & Steam Play is up

By Liam Dawe,
Ethan Lee's 'Proton Torpedo, the quest to bring every Steam game to Linux' is the title of a presentation Ethan Lee did at MAGFest 2019.

It's a good time to be a bullet hell fan, as Woodpunk just arrived officially on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the likes of Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon, Metal Slug, Golden Axe, and more Woodpunk just arrived officially on Linux.

Mutropolis, a sci-fi point & click adventure that looks a bit wild is heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Mutropolis is a name I haven't heard since the days of Steam's Greenlight, it was given the green light by Valve back in 2016 and it seems to be closing in on release.

Paradox Interactive sale going on Humble Store and Paradox have opened a new studio

By Liam Dawe,
Two bits of Paradox Interactive stuff to cover today! First, the have a big sale going on the Humble Store with loads of Linux games and they've also opened a new game dev studio.

The destruction-heavy twin-stick shooter 'Smith and Winston' updated with fun new content

By Liam Dawe,
Smith and Winston, an incredibly stylish twin-stick shooter with destructible environments just recently had a rather large update.

Cyberpunk point & click adventure 'Born Punk' fully funded and heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for fans of both Cyberpunk and Point & Click adventure games, as Born Punk has been fully funded on Kickstarter.

Nimbatus, the awesome space drone creation game now has Drone Racing in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
Nimbatus is a game I've been absolutely in love with from the first moment I touched it and Stray Fawn Studio only continue to impress me with the development of this Early Access title.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is the new FPS from 3D Realms, coming to Linux this Summer

By Liam Dawe,
This is going to be awesome, 3D Realms along with KillPixel and 1C Entertainment have revealed WRATH: Aeon of Ruin their new retro-FPS. It's also releasing with Linux support and soon too.