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

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2017

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, 27 Feb 2017

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, 27 Feb 2017

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, 27 Feb 2017

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, 27 Feb 2017

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, 27 Feb 2017

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, 27 Feb 2017

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, 26 Feb 2017

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, 26 Feb 2017

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.