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An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia'

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2017

I had the pleasure of talking to Simon Roth, a developer I've followed for quite some time now about his game 'Maia', about Linux and other bits. Linux sales for Simon are 'approaching ten thousand', which is impressive.

Overdriven Reloaded, a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up with 4 player co-op is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2017

Overdriven Reloaded, a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up is now on Linux. We have quite a few games like it, but this has 4 player co-op so it might just be enough to hook some in.

Project Zomboid to finally get in-game maps you can make notes on

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2017

It's pretty easy to get completely lost in Project Zomboid, but the developers have announced a new feature coming: maps.

Puzzle Puppers is now officially on Linux, thanks to some messages from the community

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2017

I posted about Puzzle Puppers possibly coming to Linux only yesterday and a few people told the developers they would buy it. The developer has now published a Linux version!

AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 released for Linux, adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 is now officially available for AMD GPU owners and it adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0.

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Jonathan Blow states he is open to a Linux port of The Witness with Vulkan, but never with OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

For those of you interested in seeing The Witness on Linux, it seems Jonathan Blow mentioned it again recently in a livestream in response to a viewer question. It's hard to argue with what he's saying.

Shadow of Mordor patch released for Linux, fixes issue with NVIDIA cards and more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

The patch we have been waiting on for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is finally live and fixes a major graphical bug on NVIDIA drivers.

Iron Sky: Invasion, the Wine-port from Topware Interactive is out of Beta and on sale

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

The Linux Wine-port of Iron Sky: Invasion is now officially out of beta and it's on sale with 80% off for another few days.

Mesa 12.0.6 released with bug fixes for the older stable version, users encouraged to update to Mesa 13

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Mesa 12.0.6 has released and it brings with it a bunch of bug fixes. While the latest stable version is Mesa 13.0.3, those sticking with the older Mesa 12 will still like their fixes.

Some thoughts on the Shadowrun series

By Hamish, 23 Jan 2017

Shadowrun was not only the first CRPG series I found compelling enough to play through all the way to the end, but one that I also found myself invested in enough to purchase additional instalments soon after playing the first.

Completely unexpected Monday Roguelikely Livestream today at 6 PM UTC

By Samsai, 23 Jan 2017

As you might have noticed, the last Friday Livestream was handled by Liam because I was doing secrety secret things and I will be doing more of the same on next Friday. So, I bring you an unexpected Monday Roguelikely Livestream!

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Monumental Failure is absolutely hilarious, a game you just need to try

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2017

The developers of Monumental Failure sent over a key for me to test out their hilarious and totally historically accurate game about building monuments.

Yooka-Laylee has revealed multiplayer in a new trailer

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2017

If you weren't already sold on Yooka-Laylee, this new multiplayer trailer might just sell you on it and it looks fantastic.

The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2017

Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.

Total War: WARHAMMER makes Grombrindal the White Dwarf Legendary Lord available to all players

By BTRE, 20 Jan 2017

Originally available to anyone who went to a physical Games Workshop store, this Legendary Lord has now been made available for free on Steam if you own the game.

Major Stable Steam client update, Xbox controller config support, vastly improved Linux client

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2017

This is the big one. Steam have released a major update of the Steam client which not only adds in some big new features, it also drastically improves the Linux client.