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Shallow Space open-world beta now on Linux, bringing it to Linux helped overall performance

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2016

Here's something fun, Shallow Space has been re-working to be an open-world space game and the beta is now on Linux. The developer said getting it working on Linux helped overall performance.

Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux after all, was a miscommunication

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2016

Put the pitchforks down and stop flipping tables, as it seems Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux.

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2016

Here's something awesome to see, the Valve demo of the HTC Vive on Linux was using Kubuntu, and we have some pictures.

Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition removed from stores in favour of the new Anniversary World Tour, no Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

For fans of oldschool Duke Nukem on Linux, sadly you're now out of luck. Gearbox took over the rights to Duke Nukem and Devolver's deal for Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition has ended, so essentially Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition is no more.

'Can't Drive This' is a racing game where your friends build the track as you drive

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

The developers of 'Can't Drive This' just sent word that their crazy-fun looking racer is now on Linux. This Early Access game has your friends building the track as your drive, amusing.

Tyranny, the new RPG from Obsidian, gets a release date and will have day-1 Linux support [Updated]

By BTRE, 13 Oct 2016

Fans of good ol’ RPG adventures rejoice, you’ll be able to experience the world where evil won on November 10th. Paradox and Obsidian have put out a new trailer showing off more of the game.

Colony building sim 'Maia' has a big update, taking another look

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

'Maia' is an Early Access colony building sim that has always shown promise, but the problem is that it has been quite buggy. This new release has polished the game up quite a bit.

Small update to the PC info system today, you can now get a 'forum signature image'

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your pc details and username.

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Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.

Transport Fever confirmed for day-1 Linux release on November 8th, plus gameplay video

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

Transport Fever is really starting to look great, and the best news is that Linux is confirmed to be a day-1 release. We also have a new gameplay video.

Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.

Mesa has now hit full OpenGL 4.4 support for AMD radeonsi and Intel

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

As of today Mesa now has full OpenGL 4.4 support (with 4.5 already done) for both AMD radeonsi and Intel (i965/gen8+). Mesa won't actually expose any higher than OpenGL 4.3 until Mesa (well, someone) pays up for the Conformance Tests.

Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.

Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.

Through the Woods no longer coming to Linux due to platform-specific technology

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

This is really annoying. 'Through the Woods', a very promising psychological horror is no longer coming to Linux and was only announced two weeks before release due to platform-specific technology.

Steam to get a massive update soon, Asia revenue increased nearly 500% since 2014 and more

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

More information courtesy of all the developers at SteamDevDays. Steam will apparently be getting a massive update/refresh soon and the amount of games releasing on Steam has been increasing by a lot.

Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.

Recursed, a mind bending puzzle platformer that's actually rather good is now out for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Recursed, is a new indie puzzle platformer that might just warp your mind a little bit. I've been playing it and don't let the graphical style fool you, it's quite good.

Looks like VR support for Linux will be shown off at SteamDevDays this week, about time

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

VR support for Linux has been lacking and the communication around it has been pretty damn poor by Valve and HTC, but it seems this is about to change at SteamDevDays.

AMD Zen looks like it will release at CES in January 2017

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2016

In January 2017 it looks like AMD will finally release their brand new clean-sheet (it's a new design) Zen CPU architecture, and damn it sounds exciting.