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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution released for Linux, port report and thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive have ported another set of cracking good games. This time we have Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution to fill our strategy needs!

'We Are The Dwarves' now available DRM free for Linux on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
We Are The Dwarves, an action-based tactical adventure is now available for you GOG fans in their usual DRM free form.

Minecraft: The Exploration Update announced, new monsters, new animals and more

By Liam Dawe,
The Minecraft developers have announced The Exploration Update and they have already released a development release for it.

'Sunless Skies', the next game after 'Sunless Sea' to support Linux, will go to Kickstarter next year

By Liam Dawe,
Failbetter Games have announced their next game titled 'Sunless Skies' as the follow-on from 'Sunless Sea'. Linux will be supported.

'Osiris: New Dawn', a graphically impressive multiplayer adventure and survival game coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
'Osiris: New Dawn' is a very impressive looking mix of multiplayer survival, adventure, action and so on. The developers have mentioned that a Linux version is on the table.

InXile Entertainment announced Wasteland 3, will use crowdfunding on fig

By Liam Dawe,
InXile Entertainment have formally announced that Wasteland 3 is a thing and it will go to crowdfunding site Fig to secure development funding.

'Stash: No Loot Left Behind', the new MMO from Frogdice is now available in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Stash: No Loot Left Behind is the new MMO from Frogdice that features turn based grid combat, player customizable housing and more.

'Pavilion', the very stylish fourth-person puzzling adventure released with day-1 Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about 'Pavilion' months ago, so it's pleasing to see it release as promised with day-1 Linux support. The game has some serious style to it.

'Niche - a genetics survival game' released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to a GOL supporter I've had a chance to check out 'Niche - a genetics survival game' and breed my tribe of weird looking animals.

Fusion 3, the next generation game engine and editor from Clickteam will support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Clickteam are the company behind some really cool tools like Fusion, previously called Multimedia Fusion. They did an AMA today where a developer noted their Fusion 3 editor is running on Linux and other platforms.

Avoid the pile-up in 'Clustertruck', a first-person platformer with day-1 Linux support, it's great

By Liam Dawe,
Clustertruck released today and I've had a chance to play some of it before the release, here's some thoughts.

Steam now has above 2,500 Linux & SteamOS games available

By Liam Dawe,
I've seen some posts on reddit and across the wider net about Steam hitting around 2,000 games for Linux. The truth is the number is actually quite a lot higher.

The Talos Principle now renders correctly in 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.

'Farabel', a turn based strategy game is officially coming to Linux after a days work

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of Farabel sent word that their game is now officially coming to Linux. They asked for testers and in a single day got the game working properly on Linux and it's now official.

Yooka-Laylee has another trailer, featuring Shovel Knight

By Liam Dawe,
That's right, Shovel Knight has somehow found his way into Yooka-Laylee and here's a trailer to prove it.

hackmud, a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator is now out with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
hackmud, or "hackmud" as it likes to be called is now out with Linux support from day-1. It's a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator so I imagine some of you might find it fun.

Future Unfolding is a fantastic looking action and adventure game with rather unique visuals

By Liam Dawe,
Future Unfolding from Spaces of Play looks rather unique in style and gameplay. It has a procedurally generated world where you solve puzzles and interact with animals to progress.

The Long Dark gets a massive update, which fixes a critical Linux audio bug

By Liam Dawe,
The Long Dark is the rather beautiful survival game currently in development that will eventually get a story mode. The game has just had a rather beefy update.

On Wednesday the 28th of September Feral Interactive will livestream Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you're excited about the release of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II for Linux you may want to tune in to Feral Interactive's livestream on Wednesday.

GOG are running a back to school sale and GOG Connect has returned with new games

By Liam Dawe,
GOG has a bunch of titles on sale right now and they have also announced the return of GOG Connect which allows you to add certain games from Steam to your GOG library.