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Friday Livestream starting at 6 PM UTC, today with a special guest!

By Samsai, 30 Dec 2016

It's almost New Year's but before we start recklessly using explosives for our own amusement we still have one Friday Livestream to go. And today we have a special guest who you are all very familiar with: our own Liam. Yes, I am lonely.

The Little Acre adventure game released for Linux, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2016

The Little Acre, an interesting cartoon-like adventure game was recently released for Linux. I gave it a go to see if it’s worth your money.

Some absolute crazy deals are available on Steam for Linux for under £4

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2016

Right now on Steam you can get some really insane deals, so I've picked out a bunch for cash-strapped Linux gamers.

Heavy Gear Assault has now officially launched into Early Access on Steam, be wary Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2016

Heavy Gear Assault, an online mech-battle arena is now available in Steam Early Access. It has Linux support, but it has issues you should know about.

Mad Nords: Probably an Epic Quest, a simple 2D RPG now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2016

Mad Nords: Probably an Epic Quest is one I missed from early December that launched with Linux support. It looks simple, until you watch the trailer.

Best Buds vs Bad Guys, the retro indie action-platformer released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2016

Later than I had originally hoped, but Best Buds vs Bad Guys has officially released for Linux. I actually Kickstarted this game, so I was hoping it would be good.

Northern Shadow, a once promising looking RPG that would support Linux has ceased development

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2016

Way back in 2014, Valve were approving games from Greenlight in batches. In one particular batch the game 'Northern Shadow' came up on my radar as a very promising looking RPG. Sadly though, it has officially ceased development.

Check out the 'Top 10 Linux Games 2016' video from various Linux Youtubers

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2016

A bunch of Linux gamers who do Youtube videos came together to make a video of our top choices this year.

Possess the bodies of your enemies in 'MidBoss', coming to Linux and should be a day-1 release

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2016

I recently saw 'MidBoss' pop up in my Twitter feed and after seeing how amazing it looked I shot the developer a message. Turns out our friendly neighbourhood porting machine Ethan Lee is doing it and it should be day-1!

Afterbirth+, the next DLC for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth arrives next week

By EndeavourAccuracy, 28 Dec 2016

Fans of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, don't spend all your money during the Steam Winter Sale. Next week, one day after the Steam sale has ended, Isaac's 'Afterbirth+' expansion will be released.

The original 'POSTAL' is now open source under the GPL

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

The original version of the classic shooter 'POSTAL' is now officially open source under the GPL license. That's a pretty nice move by RWS.

System76 have been working with NVIDIA on Linux driver fixes, a chat with the System76 community manager

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

System76, the Linux hardware supplier for laptops, desktops and more has been working with NVIDIA on fixing up their drivers.

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS enters the Beta phase with a big update

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

Day of Infamy is now in Beta and it came with a rather big patch. The game has a Linux version, but it's not officially advertised just yet.

Interstellar Marines, the once promising sci-fi FPS is still alive and a new update is out

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

Interstellar Marines was once an incredibly promising FPS game with nice visuals and interesting gameplay. Sadly, their money pretty much vanished, but it's pleasing to see it still being developed.

Galaxy of Pen & Paper announced by Behold Studios, will support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

Behold Studios, those behind Knights of Pen & Paper and Chroma Squad have now officially announced their new game: Galaxy of Pen & Paper. It will have Linux support too and it sounds interesting.

Wrongworld, a rather hilarious looking surreal survival game is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2016

I like survival games, but often I find them hard to get into. Wrongworld looks like it will make that rather easy, as it just looks so damn funny.

Escape from aliens on small islands in 'Mugsters', a colourful and amusing looking indie game

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

I discovered 'Mugsters' recently and after watching the trailer I feel like I just have to play it. It looks downright hilarious.

Your staff are a bit more needy in Prison Architect update 11

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

Prison Architect got a surprise holiday update and it's an interesting one. It adds a little more simulation for your staff along with some bug fixes.

Transport Fever has released a big performance patch, might be worth it now

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

I liked Transport Fever, but the performance at release was pretty damn bad. The developers were well aware of this and so they have released a big performance patch.

'gifine' is a pretty simple open source tool for making small gifs and videos

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2016

Something I've wanted for a while was an easy way to make simple gif animations or videos of small sections of my screen. Thankfully, gifine has come along and seems to fit my needs perfectly.