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Acrobatic colourful platformer 'Rifter' will release July 12th with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Fusing together fast-past acrobatic platforming with a thumping synthwave soundtrack, Rifter certainly looks good! It's officially releasing July 12th with Linux support.

Prison Architect update 14 is out giving inmates the ability to climb over walls with rope

By Liam Dawe,
As if you didn't have enough to worry about, now inmates have gotten so smart they can make their own rope to climb over your walls.

The rather tense action & stealth game 'Basingstoke' now has a Horde mode

By Liam Dawe,
Puppy Games have updated Basingstoke with some new features and a new game mode, it's also on sale for the Steam Summer Sale.

Wine 3.11 and Wine Staging 3.11 both got released recently

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 3.11 (insert joke about Wine for Workgroups 3.11) is the latest development release of the compatibility layer allowing you to play Windows games on Linux.

OpenSAGE, an early WIP game engine for Command & Conquer: Generals adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
OpenSAGE is an open source game engine that aims to be a re-implementation of SAGE, the RTS engine used in Command & Conquer: Generals and other RTS titles from EA Pacific.

Great Linux games on Steam currently under a fiver

By Liam Dawe,
It's the start of a new week, you're all fresh faced and ready to go but you need a new game. Here to help with that, here's some great Linux games currently going for under a fiver.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is coming to GOG and you can pre-order now

By Liam Dawe,
Great news for those who want to get a little 4x Warhammer going as Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is coming to GOG and you can pre-order now.

Build your base and raid enemies in 'Scrunk' coming to Linux next month, also has a Battle Royale mode

By Liam Dawe,
Scrunk is a game I discovered today that instantly captured my interest for the interesting team-based build and survive mode.

In Monster Prom I was rejected even after letting a princess ride me

By Liam Dawe,
Monster Prom is a game I honestly completely ignored when it released. I will hold my hands up to that and tell you how much of an idiot I was for doing so.

Looks like miniLAW: Ministry of Law is heading to Linux, get ready to be an arm of the law

By Liam Dawe,
miniLAW: Ministry of Law, a game that puts you in the shoes of a Constable, an elite officer of the Ministry of Law looks like it's coming to Linux.

Basemark GPU is a new benchmark tool that supports Linux and many different APIs

By Liam Dawe,
A few days ago, Basemark officially announced and have now released Basemark GPU, their latest benchmarking tool and it has Linux support.

Visual novel 'Higurashi When They Cry Hou' part 6 is now out

By Liam Dawe,
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi recently released as the sixth chapter in the series and they all have Linux support.

DXVK for Direct3D 11 over Vulkan in Wine has a new 0.60 release

By Liam Dawe,
Summer heat got you parched? Why not wet your whistle with some Wine as DXVK has a fresh release out today.

There's a new Linux beta of 'Black Mesa' that fixes it running on Linux, Xen levels nearly finished

By Liam Dawe,
For those who've been wanting to play Black Mesa, the fan-made recreation of Half-Life you're in luck as Crowbar Collective put up a Beta for Linux users.

The Atari VCS team aren't doing themselves any favours by accusing The Register of being professional trolls

By Liam Dawe,
It seems the Atari VCS team are burning bridges before they're even built, as they accused the well respected tech news site The Register of professional trolling.

The Linux version of Turok has left beta, available to everyone

By Liam Dawe,
Turok, the revamp of the 1997 shooter arrived in Beta for Linux back in May and now it's officially out.

Steam Summer Sale is up, free game from Humble Store & Fanatical sale too

By Liam Dawe,
There's quite a lot of sales and stuff going on right now, so I'm going to cram some into one article to give you an extra scoop with sprinkles and all.

For The King is a really great strategic RPG you must try that just got updated

By Liam Dawe,
Strategic RPG 'For The King' is a game that constantly surprised me with some really great gameplay.

How to be a great advocate for a niche gaming platform

By Marc Di Luzio,
Directly helping to bring games to Linux can be super complicated - I’m talking low-level, real-time, writing-a-GUI-in-Visual-Basic-to-hack-the-Gibson complicated. What if there was a way to support the platform you love with just your regular old self?

Stormy sailing game 'Make Sail' adds in sea turtles you can ride on

By Liam Dawe,
I'm still terrible at it but there's a lot of charm to Make Sail and the steady improvements have been impressive. This latest update is a rather nice one.