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Cossacks 3 shows off old style diplomacy in a new teaser video

By Liam Dawe,
I am really excited to play Cossacks 3 as I love real time strategy games, and the graphics do look great. This new video is a bit of fun showing off "diplomacy".

Release window and publisher announced for hardcore puzzle platformer The Land of Eyas

By flesk,
According to a new press release, The Land of Eyas will be published by Rising Star Games and will be available this summer.

Rocket League due on SteamOS & Linux very soon [Updated]

By Liam Dawe,
The time of waiting is nearly over, or so they say. A member of the Rocket League team mentioned on the Steam forum it will be due very soon at the end of Q1 2016.

Ubuntu 16.04 dropping the AMD Catalyst/fglrx driver

By madmachinations,
Canonical have decided to deprecate the fglrx driver in Ubuntu 16.04. This is hardly surprising news as fglrx, which has always been renowned for being a pain, has steadily becoming more and more of a problem on modern Linux distributions. Even Debian with its tentatively updated packages has surpassed the official system requirements for fglrx.

XCOM 2 Anarchy’s Children DLC releasing March 17, come see some screenshots

By Liam Dawe,
Is the customization in XCOM 2 not enough for you? XCOM 2 Anarchy’s Children will add over 100 new options. Come check out some shots we have.

GOL has been updated, few new bits to be aware of

By Liam Dawe,
Sorry if I broke anything. I have been working for weeks on some new features and general code fixes and clean-ups for the website.

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised

By Liam Dawe,
Great news! The update to Arma 3 on Linux has landed, bringing us up to 1.54. Not quite the newest, but better than what we had.

Interstellar Marines seeking funding again as they let staff go

By Liam Dawe,
Interstellar Marines was a seriously promising FPS game that would have single player, co-op play and online versus multiplayer. Sadly, they have had to let staff go and rely on interns right now as they seek more funding.

Darkest Dungeon Linux port is practically ready, releasing soon

By Liam Dawe,
The Darkest Dungeon developers have said the Linux port is practically done, and we should be able to play it soon.

Point-and-click adventure Kelvin and the Infamous Machine released in Early Access

By flesk,
The game is available DRM free via Humble Bundle and on Steam, and is already playable from start to finish, but is being kept in Early Access while full English voiceovers and text translations are being added.

Want to see me take on Feral Interactive in Company of Heroes 2? Tomorrow it is!

By Liam Dawe,
Tomorrow at 11AM UTC I will be facing off against Matt from Feral Interactive for the second time at Company of Heroes 2, will he beat me this time? Who knows, but I'm going to have fun and livestream it anyway!

Arma 3 Linux port to update to 1.54 tomorrow, there's more good news too

By Liam Dawe,
Great news FPS fans! Arma 3 will see an update on the Linux port to version 1.54 tomorrow! Not quite the current version, but it's a step closer and there's more good news.

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck

By Liam Dawe,
American Truck Simulator arrived on Linux day one which is fantastic, and I was eventually sent over a key by SCS directly to check it out.

IndieGameStand blog post on Steam key reselling, plus my thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
It's always a shame to hear about scammers, especially when it comes to indie developers and smaller stores. IndieGameStand has written a blog post about it and it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

Star Citizen update, they are considering Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Chris Roberts has done his usual video update on Star Citizen, and he mentions that they are looking into Vulkan.

SteamOS stable updated to 2.64, brings Vulkan to the stable users

By Liam Dawe,
For those not keeping track: SteamOS was recently updated to include the changes from the recent 2.64 beta and it brings Vulkan for Nvidia amongst other changes.

CrossCode, an epic looking 16-bit SNES-style RPG is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
I totally didn't forget to write about this. CrossCode is a rather intriguing RPG that has a style from the SNES era with obvious improvements.

Want to make an RPG game? Looks like RPG Maker MV may be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've somewhat followed the RPG Maker program over the years to see it evolve into a tool some decent games have been made from, and now it looks like RPG Maker MV will come to Linux.

DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
What a day to be a Linux gamers! DiRT Rally is also now showing signs that it will be ported to Linux. Another great racing game I have wanted to play, and our first proper Rally game.

Life Is Strange looks like it will come to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another game I have really wanted to play, but didn't think it would come to Linux. Life Is Strange is a well reviewed story game based on based choice and consequence.