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Arc Savior, another space combat game will be supported on Linux after release

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2019

Arc Savior, a new space combat game from developer Squid Monkey Studios is releasing later this month and it looks quite interesting. Turns out the developer is going to support Linux too.

Volcanoids, the steampunk survival game with massive drills has a Linux version ready for Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2019

As promised by the developers of Volcanoids, the Linux version of their very interesting first-person steampunk survival game is live and ready for when they hit Early Access.

Free public Itch alpha of space shooter Gravity Ace is up for grabs

By scaine, 12 Jan 2019

If you would cry happy tears at the thought of a modern successor to 80s games like Thrust and Gravitar, then brace yourself for a river. Developer John Watson is making that dream a reality with his first commercial release, Gravity Ace. And you can try it for free!

Time to uncork and unwind as the sixth release candidate for Wine 4.0 is out

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

As expected, another bug-fix release is out as progress towards the final release of Wine 4.0 approaches.

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Hellshots Golf is basically Doom Golf and it's somewhat amusing

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

Always interested to see what silly (and sometimes amazing) things people do with Doom, enter Hellshots Golf.

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The fun and challenging action-RPG 'Mana Spark' can now be found on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

While it's had Linux support for a few months and has been available on other stores, today GOG have added the action-RPG Mana Spark.

SuperTuxKart 0.10 beta is out with online multiplayer and it's looking good

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

SuperTuxKart, the free and open source racing game has hit the beta stage with the 0.10 release that's now available.

Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

Here's a fun statistic for you today! Steam Play, Valve's fork of Wine which includes DXVK has recently hit 500 titles rated as "Platinum" when going by ProtonDB reports.

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Epic and Improbable are taking advantage of Unity with the SpatialOS debacle, seems a little planned

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2019

As an update to the ongoing saga between Improbable and Unity in regards to SpatialOS, Epic Games have now jumped in to take advantage of it.

Grab a free copy of 'A Story About My Uncle' in the Humble Store Winter Sale that's now live

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

Oh goodie, more sales of awesome Linux games for you and another free game for you to be able to claim.

We Need To Go Deeper could be a lot of fun but it needs to do a better job at everything

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

With thanks to a supporter, I was gifted a copy of We Need To Go Deeper. It's a 2-4 player co-op submarine roguelike and it's pretty rough.

Unity have changed their terms of service, which has essentially blocked SpatialOS and streaming services

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

While not directly related to Linux gaming, this is still some interesting news to be aware of for those working with the Unity game engine.

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One Step From Eden, an action-packed deck-building roguelike plans Linux support (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

Inspired by the likes of Nuclear Throne, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain and more One Step From Eden looks like a promising action-packed deckbuilding roguelike.

Vintage Story, the moddable survival and building game had a big update

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

Vintage Story might look a lot like Minecraft but it's a very different beast and it just recently had a rather big update.

Snowtopia, an in-development ski resort sim to keep an eye on has Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

One game that could be worth keeping an eye on is the ski resort building and management sim Snowtopia.

CHKN, the weird yet surprisingly engrossing survival game has been updated although it's having a few issues

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

When I recently talked about the big update to the survival game CHKN, I was very impressed with the game mechanics and style. However, performance was an issue.

Kontrakt, a hyper-violent action-adventure finally works properly on newer Linux distributions

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

Kontrakt actually released back in October last year, sadly it only supported older distributions but this is now fixed so I've taken a look.

The developer of Smith and Winston made an interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

I recently talked about the Steam release of Smith and Winston but I didn't realise until late last night, that the developer actually made a very interesting blog post about supporting multiple platforms.

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Abstract Hell is like a twin-stick shooter Pac-Man and it's a lot of fun

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2019

Abstract Hell from developer Nathan Best released recently with Linux support and it's really quite good.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2019

Something that could be rather exciting for AMD enthusiasts, AMD has officially revealed the AMD Radeon VII at CES 2019. On top of that, 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors are coming.