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Rakuen, a great looking 2D indie adventure RPG arrives on Linux May 10th

By Liam Dawe,
On May 10th, Rakuen, a great looking 2D adventure RPG will release with day 1 Linux support from developer Laura Shigihara.

Victor Vran Motörhead expansion has a beautifully heavy trailer, release date for the two DLC packs announced

By Liam Dawe,
Victor Vran Motörhead Through the Ages is an upcoming DLC with some really slick tunes and it now has a trailer. Both this and the Fractured Worlds DLC now have a release date.

There's going to be a Vulkan event in the UK, Feral Interactive & Croteam will be attending

By Liam Dawe,
On May 25th there's a Vulkan event happening in the UK. Organised by Khronos UK, there will be a number of interesting talks including Croteam and Feral Interactive.

Some thoughts on becoming a mummified redneck in 'Immortal Redneck', a pretty good FPS for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Become a mummified redneck in the FPS Immortal Redneck, here’s some thoughts I cooked up for you plus a gameplay video.

TerraTech has a major update with a creative mode, new blocks and more

By Liam Dawe,
TerraTech is a promising Early Access game where you create land and air based vehicles to combat with.

Good deals going this week for Linux gamers, a quick look

By Liam Dawe,
A day later than I usually like to do it, but here's another of my weekly articles pointing out some good Linux game sales.

Adventure game Syberia 3 looks like it will be heading over to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Adventure game Syberia 3 is showing signs that it might release on Linux. It does look pretty good, so hopefully it works out.

Phoenix Point from the original creator of X-COM is now crowdfunding on Fig

By Liam Dawe,
I haven't been this excited for quite a while, the original creator of X-COM, Julian Gollop, and the rest of his studio Snapshot Games have put up Phoenix Point for crowdfunding on Fig.

Lil Tanks is a well polished and action packed side-scroller available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've been playing Lil Tanks and I think it's a fantastic side-scrolling action game well worth a look.

UniBall, a completely free to play online 2D sports game arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
UniBall, a simple and completely free online sports game has arrived on Linux. I tested it out and it's actually pretty sweet.

OpenRCT2, an open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

By Liam Dawe,
It appears we've never mentioned OpenRCT2 before, a fully featured open source engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2!

Stardew Valley 1.2 is out with more languages, better gamepad support and more

By Liam Dawe,
Stardew Valley, the lovely and addictive 2D game from ConcernedApe has a big new patch out and here's what's new.

A look at 'Meganoid', the platformer with roguelike elements from Orangepixel

By Liam Dawe,
Orangepixel's latest game 'Meganoid' is a platformer with randomly generated levels. I tried it out and here's some thoughts.

OpenRA has a new release with HiDPI font rendering, more Dune 2000 missions and more

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA is easily one of my favourite open source projects. It allows us to play early Westwood RTS games like Red Alert and Dune 2000 in a modern engine on Linux. The latest release is a good one too.

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.

Linux gamers on Arch may want to hold off on updating due to openssl breaking some games (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
It seems an Arch update today has broken a few games, several Feral Interactive titles as well as Civilization VI from Aspyr Media no longer run. UPDATED, see the bottom.

Dota 2 has massive changes to matchmaking that should give better games

By Liam Dawe,
Dota 2 has been through a small evolution in the matchmaking to hopefully improve the experience for everyone.

Project Zomboid has another major update with tons of bugs fixes and new map items

By Liam Dawe,
Project Zomboid, the sandbox Zombie survival game that can be played in single-player and multi-player has another major version bump.

Peace, Death! Possibly one of the weirdest games I've played for a while

By Liam Dawe,
We do get our fair share of completely weird games, today's weird one is Peace, Death! You are a Reaper and your task is to correctly decide if people go to Heaven or Hell.

Some thoughts on 'Hollow Knight', an incredibly rich and unexpectedly great game

By Liam Dawe,
I knew Hollow Knight was going to be impressive when going into it, but I didn't realize how impressive it was.