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LG are making a VR headset, to be shown off at Valve's GDC booth

By Liam Dawe,
And we have another VR HMD contender in the rings folks. LG have announced they will be showing off their own VR HMD at GDC with Valve.

Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet

By Liam Dawe,
Shadow of War has been officially announced as a sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Hopefully Feral Interactive will grab the porting rights again here, as Shadow of Mordor was fantastic.

Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality

By Liam Dawe,
OpenXR is the official name of the Khronos Group's new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality. Hopefully we will see Valve and other companies move towards this instead of their own implementations.

Paradox announce 'Stellaris: Utopia', the first proper expansion for Stellaris, out April 6th

By Liam Dawe,
Stellaris: Utopia sounds really, really good. It adds plenty of content that might just get me to pick up the game again.

Pictopix, a very clever logic puzzle game involving counting squares

By Liam Dawe,
I'm never very good with logic games like this, especially when I need to manually count stuff, but Pictopix is very clever.

Heavy Gear Assault update adds in bots

By Liam Dawe,
Heavy Gear Assault just got a little less lonely, as bots can now populate servers to keep games going. This was needed, as the online play is sadly pretty empty right now.

Vulkan API 1.0.42 released, new NVIDIA beta drivers released to go with it

By Liam Dawe,
Vulkan 1.0.42 seems like a much bigger release than usual, NVIDIA have also release their 375.27.12 beta Vulkan driver to fit in the new extensions from this Vulkan release.

Heroes of Arca, a turn-based strategy and RPG released for Linux, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Heroes of Arca was emailed in by the developer, an somewhat interesting looking turn-based strategy with RPG elements that claims to have an 'unorthodox combat system'.

Narita Boy, an absolutely incredible looking 2D scroller with RPG elements is on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
I am always hesistant to write about crowdfunding games, but Narita Boy looks like something truly special. The trailer sure does look amazing.

Some thoughts on Realpolitiks, a real-time grand strategy game now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Realpolitiks is a new real-time (with pausing) grand strategy game from Jujubee S.A. and I was sent a key to be able to take a look.

Streets of Rogue has a Steam release date set, plus recent updates have improved online play

By Liam Dawe,
Streets of Rogue is a fantastic idea, to have the combat feeling of games like Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon and others, while having a more open-world approach to the action roguelike genre.

Editorial: Steam Machines are not dead, plus a video from The Linux Gamer

By Liam Dawe,
As usual, the wider media and people who like to generate clicky headlines like to claim Steam Machines are dead in the water. The truth is though, is that it's not quite so simple.

The Exiled, the sandbox PvP MMO is now available on Linux in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
You might remember my little preview of The Exiled back in December, well it seems the game is now officially out in Early Access on Steam.

Railway Empire simulation game announced, will support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Railway Empire is an new strategy and simulation game from Gaming Minds Studios and Kalypso Media Digital that will support Linux.

Feral Interactive will livestream DiRT Rally on March 1st

By Liam Dawe,
For those wanting to see DiRT Rally on Linux for the first time ever, Feral Interactive will be doing a livestream the day before release on March 1st.

Looks like the Serious Sam 4 release date may have been shown in an 'easter egg'

By Liam Dawe,
Inside Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is an 'easter egg' that may give the release date of Serious Sam 4.

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

By gamingonlinux,
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.

Aspyr Media confirm the 'Australian Summer' Civilization VI update should be on Linux in 'a matter of weeks'

By Liam Dawe,
Today the 'Australian Summer' update landed for the Windows version of Civilization VI, but the Linux update is a little further out.

Northgard, a great looking strategy title will come to Linux after Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of strategy game Northgard have confirmed their plans for a Linux version, they already have it working with SDL2 and OpenGL!

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
The time has come once again! I welcome you to our weekly Friday Livestream where we will play games and talk nonsense for a bit over 2 hours. It's a lot of fun! So, make your way to the Twitch page for some live Linux gaming!