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Streets of Rogue, the rogue-lite about player choice now has co-op and online play

By Liam Dawe,
Streets of Rogue just updated recently to include a beta version that offers up co-op and online play. I seriously suggest you give it a go!

Heavy Gear Assault Steam release delayed by Valve

By Liam Dawe,
The Steam release of Heavy Gear Assault has been delayed by Valve. It seems Valve have been so busy the game is currently stuck waiting to be approved.

Stefan Achatz, the developer who worked on Linux support for Roccat devices answers why he's stopping

By Liam Dawe,
Stefan Achatz, the developer who had been working on supporting Roccat devices on Linux has stated why he's stopping.

Feral Interactive are also doing a winter sale until January 2nd

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive are throwing their games at you for cheap this winter, as they are running their own sale on their own store until January 2nd.

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Stunt Island are now available for Linux on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have put up two more classic games with Linux support today with Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Stunt Island.

The Steam Winter sale is now live, prepare your wallets

By Liam Dawe,
It's that time of the year folks, as Steam has cut the prices on tons of awesome games! Make sure your wallet is prepared.

Block'hood, the neighbourhood-building simulator is now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Block'hood, the Early Access neighbourhood-building simulator from Plethora-Project LLC is now available for Linux.

Aspyr Media state no news about the 'feasibility' of Civilization VI on Linux until after the holidays

By Liam Dawe,
Aspyr Media have confirmed that the Linux version of Civilization VI will not be confirmed for this year, as they are still looking into the 'feasibility' of the Linux port.

War Thunder officially released with a huge update and a sale on premium accounts

By Liam Dawe,
War Thunder, the free to play MMO is now officially out of beta with a celebratory sale on their premium accounts to mark the occasion.

Wine Staging updated, allows you to play DOOM on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Wine Staging, the testing area for future Wine releases has been updated today and it pulls in some patches that allow DOOM to actually run with Wine on Linux.

XCOM 2 for Linux updated, officially supports Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
XCOM 2 for Linux has been patched and it adds official support for Mesa 13.0.1 along with other changes.

Arma 3 Linux port updated to Arma 1.64

By Liam Dawe,
The experimental port of Arma 3 for Linux has been updated today and we now have the much more up to date Arma 3 1.64.

Master of Orion updated to fix launching issues and no menu on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Master of Orion, the revamp, not the original, has been updated again and it finally includes fixes for troubles a bunch of Linux players had been having.

Wild Terra Online, another MMO with Linux support in Early Access is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Wild Terra Online is a player-driven MMO with hunting, crafting, building creation and tons more and it's now available on Steam in Early Access.

Impossiball, a game which is like Pong on steroids will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Impossiball, an interesting take on a Pong-like game has plans to bring out a Linux version. It looks somewhat amusing.

Realm of the Wood Elves DLC now available for Total War: WARHAMMER on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive have made the Realm of the Wood Elves DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER compatible with Linux. Easily my favourite race, so I can't wait to play them.

Earth Liberation, the indie RTS that looks pretty good confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about Earth Liberation recently, as it was one of my random discoveries on itch. It's now on Steam and the developers have confirmed it will come to Linux during Early Access.

Steam Winter Sale confirmed for December 22nd

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to a tweet from Paypal, we have it confirmed that the Steam Winter Sale will start on December 22nd.

Civ VI Steam forum mods banning users for expressing Linux support

By Guest,
The volunteer moderators on the Civ VI forum have been banning Linux users for expressing their support of a Linux port.

Editorial: The Nintendo Switch will use Vulkan, why that doesn't suddenly mean more Linux ports

By Liam Dawe,
The news doing the rounds right now is that the Nintendo Switch, the new gaming device from Nintendo will use Vulkan. People are getting rather excited and thinking it will mean more Linux ports, but right now it won't.