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Long War 2 mod announced for XCOM 2

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

For those of you who played XCOM, you may remember the mod 'Long War' which expanded the game in many ways and made it a much larger experience. Well, it seems Pavonis Interactive (previously Long War Studios) are working on Long War 2 for XCOM 2.

Pizza Tycoon, another classic from my childhood is now available on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

I am a Pizza addict and now I think I finally realize why. I played a lot of Pizza Tycoon when I was younger and I think it had an effect on me. It's now available on GOG with Linux support.

Heroes of Dire, a turn-based combat MMO is available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

Heroes of Dire is an interesting one, as it's an MMO featuring turn-based combat where you can borrow fighters from friends or a guild.

Airships: Conquer the Skies, a game about building steampunk pixel airships is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

GOG have yet another game available that's in-development with Linux support. Airships: Conquer the Skies, a rather good game I've enjoyed a good few hours in.

Intel Haswell now has support for OpenGL 4

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

The Mesa developers are as usual continuing their effort to get the open source Linux graphic drivers up to scratch. Intel Haswell (gen7) now has support for OpenGL 4.

Voxeliens, a game I covered back in 2012 has gone open source

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

Voxeliens, a game I haven't seen much on since I wrote about it back in 2012 has officially gone open source a few days ago. It's a retro-style arcade shooter and it's essentially a 3D voxel-based version of Space Invaders.

Try Hard Parking, an infuriating top-down parking game that actually looks hilarious

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

Try Hard Parking, is a new indie game from developer gearspecs that promises a rage-inducing 80s styled parking game.

MHRD, a game where you design your own hardware released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

A game that will likely excite the most nerdy in our community, MHRD, a game where you design your own hardware.

Beamdog (Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition) are working on another game, testers needed

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2017

It seems Beamdog may be doing a revamp of another title, or possibly even an original title. They have sent word that they need game testers, including Linux gamers.

Upcoming

Rich Geldreich, a former Valve developer, has an interesting blog post about Valve supporting Linux and OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2017

It's always interesting to read about what happens inside of Valve. Rich Geldreich, who previously worked at Valve has blogged about his experience inside Valve during Valve's push towards Linux.

Eco - Global Survival Game, an incredibly interesting looking game that's already on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2017

I was pointed towards 'Eco - Global Survival Game' thanks to a GOL follower and after looking it up, I decided to check it out a little more closely.

Retro-Pixel Castles updated again and will get a new name

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2017

Retro-Pixel Castles, the excellent Early Access village building sim has been updated and it's getting a new name.

We have 99 keys of IMPOSSIBALL to give away to Linux gamers willing to test it out

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2017

The developer of IMPOSSIBALL is working to bring the game to Linux, so they have sent us tons of keys to throw at you so you can test it.

The next round of our user-powered statistics has completed, take a look

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2017

It's always interesting to see what Linux gamers are running on their main gaming computers, so it's fun to see our statistics grow each month. The latest data is now available.

Survey Results

GOTY

ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2017

After another Linux site listed ARK in their top games list, the ARK Twitter account tweeted out publicly to let everyone know that ARK: Survival Evolved will move to Vulkan for Linux.