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Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe,
Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.

DOOM Eternal coming to Stadia on March 20, plus other Stadia news - a round-up

By Liam Dawe,
Time for another little roundup of what's going on with Google Stadia lately. First up, let's talk about games.

Chronicon, the excellent action-RPG now has much better gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Chronicon is an Early Access action-RPG with a feel and atmosphere like the classic Diablo, I absolutely love it and it's now much better with gamepads.

Multiplayer economic strategy game 'Trains & Things' releasing this month

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development by bitshift in Godot Engine, Trains & Things is a multiplayer economic real-time strategy game.

Crytivo (The Universim) to donate a bunch of their profits to help with Australian wildfires

By Liam Dawe,
If you've seen any news lately, you've probably heard about what a terrible and frightening state Australia is currently in with the devastation from the wildfires.

NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out, adds a fix for DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA continue advancing their special Vulkan Beta driver, the one that gets all the upcoming features that need a little extra time to brew.

Adventure game creator 'Visionaire Studio' is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Visionaire Studio, quite a popular game engine for creating adventure games is bringing the editor to Linux with the next planned release.

Portal could have had a prequel called F-STOP/Aperture Camera, as a new documentary shows

By Liam Dawe,
LunchHouse Software have announced a sort-of documentary focusing on a cancelled Valve game, apparently it was going to be called F-STOP/Aperture Camera and it was a prequel to Portal.

Looks like EA might be banning Linux gamers using Wine to play Battlefield V

By Liam Dawe,
A heads up: there's been reports of people being banned by EA and having EA claim their ban will stay, for playing Battlefield V with Wine + DXVK.

GOG are finishing their Winter Sale by giving away the RPG Tower of Time

By Liam Dawe,
Grab the excellent real-time dungeon crawling RPG, Tower of Time, completely FREE from GOG during the final days of their Winter Sale.

A peek at how many of the most popular games on Steam support Linux, December 2019 edition

By Liam Dawe,
As the 2010s come to a close, let's look over a few different ways of looking at how many popular games are available on Linux as of December 2019.

Developer of Brutal Doom reveals new project: VietDoom; alpha 0.1 already available

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
Last August, the developer responsible for the excellent mod Brutal Doom, revealed after a month of absence that he was working on a new project called VietDoom, which takes place during Vietnam War.

Xen now out of Beta in Black Mesa, time to relive Half-Life plus a roadmap is up

By Liam Dawe,
Shortly after drastically improving the performance in the Linux version, Crowbar Collective actually released the Xen chapter of Black Mesa out to everyone.

Faerie Solitaire Remastered arrives on Linux, free on itch.io

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Subsoap just recently updated their 2017 title Faerie Solitaire Remastered and they've now given it a Linux version.

The Steam Winter Sale is now live with a special Holiday Market

By Liam Dawe,
Another year is almost up, it's getting chilly and Valve's annual Steam Winter Sale has now gone live so go warm yourself up with a toasty new game.

Open Joystick Display, a FOSS tool to show off gamepad input in videos

By Liam Dawe,
Do you create gaming videos or livestream? Open Joystick Display seems like an incredibly useful free, open source and cross-platform tool to display your inputs on-screen.

Open-world space adventure Starcom: Nexus now has a Linux Beta you can easily try

By Liam Dawe,
Wx3 Labs have now opened up the Beta for Starcom: Nexus to everyone who owns the game (or picks it up now), plus they're looking for some feedback.

Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2019, an end of year review

By Liam Dawe,
2019 is coming to a close, it's been a pretty wild year for Linux gaming that's for sure! Here's some thoughts on the year and what to expect for 2020.

D9VK, the Direct3D9 to Vulkan layer has a huge new 0.40 'Croakacola' release out

By Liam Dawe,
For use with Wine and Steam Play Proton, D9VK is the awesome project based on DXVK which translates Direct3D9 to Vulkan for better performance. A big new release just went out.

Mesa 19.3 released with huge updates for Linux open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Arriving in time before the holiday season, Mesa 19.3 has now been officially released giving all open source Linux graphics drivers some big boosts and new features.
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