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Football Manager 2017 now has a playable beta if you own the game on Steam, Linux included

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2016

Football Manager 2017 is the latest in the line of FM games from Sports Interactive and SEGA and it supports Linux once again. The developers confirmed to me on twitter that Linux is included in the beta.

'Battle vs Chess' is yet another Topware Interactive published title to come to Linux using Wine

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2016

Topware Interactive have now put up a Linux beta for 'Battle vs Chess' that makes use of Wine. It's really cool to see them do this.

Stellar Overload, the block-based adventure FPS is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2016

If you remember, I recently wrote about Stellar Overload and did a small preview. The good news is that the game is now available on Steam with Linux support.

Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire now has a Linux beta available on Steam, uses Wine

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2016

Topware Interactive are continuing to bring over their older games to Linux using Wine, and that's okay. The latest is Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire.

Atomic Space Command, build a ship and take it into battle online

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2016

Atomic Space Command is a new Early Access space battle arena where you build your ship and team up with your friends to take on enemies.

Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition removed from stores in favour of the new Anniversary World Tour, no Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

For fans of oldschool Duke Nukem on Linux, sadly you're now out of luck. Gearbox took over the rights to Duke Nukem and Devolver's deal for Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition has ended, so essentially Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition is no more.

Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.

Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.

Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.

Fun looking action RPG 'Dungeons & Robots' now has an official Linux version

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2016

Dungeons & Robots is currently in Early Access and it looks like a lot of fun, the developers have recently given the game an official Linux build.

Testing out Brigador with the new control scheme, destroy everything

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2016

I have a real soft spot for Brigador, it’s a rather good-looking isometric mech action shooter, where you can destroy everything on the level. The new control scheme makes it so much more playable, it’s fantastic.

'Critical Annihilation', a twin-stick shoot 'em up made entirely out of destructible voxels has a Linux build

By Liam Dawe, 10 Oct 2016

'Critical Annihilation' is a rather fun looking shoot 'em up that features destructible voxels. Linux users asked for a build and the developer has put up a beta.

'Enclave', the 2003 action RPG now has a Linux beta that uses Wine

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2016

'Enclave' is another Wine-port from Topware Interactive who promised to bring their older published titles to Linux. I'm totally okay with this, and it's currently in Beta.

Just a heads up, PAYDAY 2 is currently broken again on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2016

For the second time in only a few months, Overkill has managed to push out an update for PAYDAY 2 that has completely broken the Linux version.

The Wine Stable Release 1.8.5 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 8 Oct 2016

The Wine team released yesterday sixth stable release of 1.8 branch of Wine. Version 1.8.5 has many small changes including 58 bugfixes.

'Spectrum', an abstract platformer now on Linux, simple in looks, but challenging

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2016

I've had the chance to play some 'Spectrum', a platformer set in an abstract world. It's quite simple, but it can also be quite challenging.

7 Days to Die massive update released, Linux version seems to work okay now

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct 2016

7 Days to Die is the Kickstarted zombie survival game from The Fun Pimps, colourful history between me and them aside, the game has come a long way. This major update has done a lot for it.