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The Signal From Tölva, the new open-world FPS from Big Robot may still come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about The Signal From Tölva back in August of last year as it looks amazing. It has now been released on Windows and the developers are still fully open to getting it on Linux.

Some thoughts on Ziggurat

By Hamish,
Classic first-person shooters are without question my favourite video game genre, and it would be nice to be able to sit down and play more Indie games that can satisfy both my classic FPS craving while at the same time pushing the genre forward. Ziggurat attempts to do both, and it wins my respect for that.

Need more Serious Sam? Serious Sam's Bogus Detour arrives this summer

By Liam Dawe,
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is another Serious Sam title, but this one is a top-down manic shooter for up to 12 players.

First-person puzzler 'Quern - Undying Thoughts' now available on GOG with a Linux build, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Quern - Undying Thoughts, a first-person puzzler inspired by the likes of Myst and Riven has been released on GOG and they have a Linux build too.

Open source game engine for Morrowind 'OpenMW' to gain 'Distant terrain' in the next release

By Liam Dawe,
One thing I totally forgot to write about is that in the next release of OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind, will finally have the 'Distant terrain' feature.

Man O' War: Corsair, the Warhammer naval battler has a release date

By Liam Dawe,
Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles only added Linux support back on March after I poked the developer and now they have a final release date set.

Inner Chains, yet another Kickstarted title to delay Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Inner Chains is a rather dark FPS powered by Unreal Engine 4 and it does look incredible. The problem is, the release date has been set with no Linux release in sight.

An interview with Beamdog about Linux gaming, they say it’s worth it

By Liam Dawe,
I had the pleasure of speaking to two different teams at game developer and publisher Beamdog, notable for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and the soon to be released Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition.

Pray for Death, a classic fighting game has been packaged up with DOSBox on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Linux gamers can now easily play the classic fighting game 'Pray for Death', as GOG have packaged it up with DOSBox.

AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver released

By Liam Dawe,
AMD have released their AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver which includes a few important fixes as well as official support for Ubuntu 16.04.2 64bit. It should also fix a Mad Max Vulkan issue.

Fort Triumph, an upcoming fantasy tactical RPG, is looking for Linux testers for its public test build

By BTRE,
This colorful game with tactical battles looks interesting. The developers have asked for feedback in the build up to the launch of their crowdfunding campaign.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
It would seem that Friday has once again arrived and that naturally means that I will be treating you to a Linux gaming experience via a video feed. So, prepare your snacks and warm up your video player of choice for some live Linux gaming.

Lose your castle and sell some weapons in 'Weapon Shop Fantasy', now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Well that's a fancy title isn't it. Weapon Shop Fantasy is a new 2D mix of an RPG and a weapon-shop simulator wrapped up neatly together and it was recently released for Linux.

Feral Interactive have released a new teaser for a Linux & Mac port to come

By Liam Dawe,
Yup, it's teaser time again! Feral Interactive are teasing another new Linux & Mac port on their infamous teaser radar.

Shroud of the Avatar major update, also free to try for a few days

By Liam Dawe,
Shroud of the Avatar, the RPG that has single-player and selective online modes has a big new release out. You can also try it for free for a few days to see if you want to buy it. I tried it again and have some thoughts for you.

Hyperspace Dogfights, the roguelike air combat brawler is now available on itch

By Liam Dawe,
Hyperspace Dogfights, a new in-development air brawler is available on itch. The game is already quite impressive in many ways.

Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME

By Liam Dawe,
I have been debating writing about this since we are mainly a gaming news site (I should really setup another site for all the other Linux news I want to write about!), but Canonical switching back to GNOME on Ubuntu is very big news for everyone.

Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven now available

By BTRE,
Paradox Development Studios has been busy as of late with new content for both Stellaris and Europa Universalis IV coming out on the same day. The latest expansion to their sprawling grand strategy game has been released, adding plenty of content to Asia.

Key reseller G2A is being told to clean up their act, or lose AAA publishing deals

By Liam Dawe,
Ah key resellers, a topic that always generates a lot of heat. A lot of it usually directed at me for 'telling you what to do', but this might help clear some things up.

NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster

By Liam Dawe,
Based on their Pascal architecture, NVIDIA has announced their top-end GPU the 'TITAN Xp' and it's an absolute monster of a card.