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Explore space in AuroraRL, now in Early Access for Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
AuroraRL is a space exploration game where our precious earth is in crisis, and it's your task to seek out alien life and make new friends.

Crypto Hex, an abstract puzzle game about spatial reasoning released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you like making your head hurt with puzzles be sure to check out Crypto Hex. It has a nice visual style, simple but challenging gameplay and it confused me quite quickly.

Open source Theme Hospital engine CorsixTH 0.60 Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe,
Greetings fans of Theme Hospital, the awesome open source engine CorsixTH has released 0.60 Beta 1 with new features and fixes.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator updated, now featuring Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe,
You can now expand your trucking simulators with community create mods in both Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator.

New Stellaris developer video brings on the hype

By Liam Dawe,
I am super pumped for Stellaris, it looks like everything I have wanted in a space strategy game and this new video really has me excited.

Survival game Rust adds female player models, assigns gender to Steam accounts at random

By Liam Dawe,
The survival game Rust from Facepunch Studios has been updated with a bit of a controversial change. They have added in new models, including female models, but you don't get to pick your gender.

There's an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver

By Liam Dawe,
If you didn't know already, there's actually an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver which could make it far more useful outside of Steam.

ARK: Survival Of The Fittest the free online survival arena is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
ARK: Survival Of The Fittest, the spin off from ARK: Survival Evolved is now available on Linux & SteamOS, it's free too.

Paws: A Shelter 2 Game & The Lonesome Fog both now available on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Paws: A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure, platformer set in the world of Shelter 2. The Lonesome Fog is a living book that seeks to expand on the concept of storytelling and explores the plight of a young cub trapped in a cycle of fear, cowardice and uncertainty.

This Heroes of Newerth benchmark video shows SteamOS as the clear winner

By Liam Dawe,
It's always great to see when Linux/SteamOS performs really well, and this video shows Heroes of Newerth performing like a total champion for us. Note: Not our video.

Be part of a 'Kick Ass Commandos' team in this Steam Early Access frenetic top down shooter

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
Lock and Load! It's time to Kick Ass. Grab your machine-gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight.

Enemy Starfighter, the seriously cool looking space shooter is no longer coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I'm personally sad about this, as I have been following Enemy Starfighter for years. It reminded me of Freespace 2 which I loved. The developer confirmed to me it's no longer coming to Linux officially, but he may team up with a porter in future.

How to tell what Steam games work on Linux & SteamOS, steamplay does not mean Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
I still see a surprising amount of confusion from people on what Steam games work on Linux. Hopefully this will help clear it all up.

Making sweet dishes in Space Food Truck, now out of Early Access and available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Today I have been creating some mighty fine dishes in Space Food Truck, it recently launched out from Early Access so I was keen to take a look.

Firewatch now available DRM free on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
The popular first-person mystery and adventure game Firewatch is now available DRM free on GOG, and it has Linux support of course.

VoidExpanse, space action RPG updated, fixes major Linux issues

By Liam Dawe,
VoidExpanse is a really cool space action RPG I've talked about a few times, and they recently updated the game which has fixed some major Linux issues.

Nvidia releases 364.16 Vulkan driver, improved Optimus support, improved multi-threaded scaling

By Liam Dawe,
Nvidia are really pushing hard on their Vulkan driver, and it's great to see them push out updates so quickly. We now have the 364.16 Vulkan driver ready for download.

Developer of Banished writes up his thoughts on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The developer behind Banished, a city builder/survival game coming to Linux has written up their thoughts on Linux. It does make for an interesting read.

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure a comedy point 'n click on Kickstarter, has Linux demo

By Liam Dawe,
The developers behind Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure sent word in that their comedy point 'n click game is now on Kickstarter. It has a Linux demo right now, so it's good to see a project that is able to deliver on Linux even this early on.

Bullshot, a very retro-inspired game is probably the stupidest thing I've played for a while

By Liam Dawe,
Someone emailed in asking me to check out Bullshot, so I did, and It's easily one the stupidest games I've played to date. The graphics really are quite awesome though.