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Minecraft hits 300 million sales, update 1.21 announced with trial chambers

By Liam Dawe,
Mojang has announced that Minecraft has now crossed over 300 million sales, and the Minecraft 1.21 update has been announced that will have some pretty fun additions. Here's a short round-up from 2023's Minecraft Live.

Mining and base defense game Dome Keeper got a huge upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Dome Keeper was already pretty great. Giving you a mixture of mining, exploration, base-building and tower defense and now it's quite a lot bigger with a free update out now.

Hearts of Iron IV: Arms Against Tyranny is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Hearts of Iron IV: Arms Against Tyranny is the latest main expansion for the popular historical strategy game from Paradox Interactive bringing with it plenty of new toys.

Minecraft Live returns October 15, you're voting for the Penguin right?

By Liam Dawe,
Linux gamers, it's your time to shine. Minecraft Live is coming up again on October 15th where Mojang will do another vote on what mob to add next so obviously you're going to vote for the Penguin right?

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Taking a look at the most-played games on Steam by player-count, here's how many of them should be playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

Gravity Circuit released paying tribute to classic platformers like Mega Man

By Pengling,
Gravity Circuit, a side-scrolling platformer that turns the action up to 11 and builds upon the legacy of popular console titles from the 1980s and 1990s has been released, and it has a native Linux version.

Hearts of Iron IV: Arms Against Tyranny to focus on Scandinavia and Finland

By Liam Dawe,
Scandinavia and Finland are a big focus in the newly announced Hearts of Iron IV: Arms Against Tyranny expansion releasing later this year.

Europa Universalis IV: Domination and free update out now

By Liam Dawe,
Europa Universalis IV: Domination is the latest expansion for the popular strategy game from Paradox Interactive and there's also a free update for all players.

Europa Universalis IV: Domination releasing April 18th

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox has confirmed the Europa Universalis IV: Domination expansion is now releasing on April 18th.

Pick up some sweet deals during the We Love Games Sale on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
You just love games right? Need some more? Check out the big We Love Games Sale over on GOG to continue building up that collection. GOG are also giving away the Alien Breed Trilogy.

D8VK is an in-progress implementation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
While we have VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan and DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan translation, what about Direct3D 8? D8VK is an upcoming in-progress project for that.

Classic 1990s series Catacomb lives on with the CatacombGL source port

By Liam Dawe,
CatacombGL is an open source project to run Catacomb 3D (1991), The Catacomb Abyss (1992), The Catacomb Armageddon (1992) and The Catacomb Apocalypse (1993).

Big open ocean adventure Sail Forth is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Sail Forth looks like a wonderful ocean adventure on the more chilled side of things (in a way), and if it's anything like the earlier versions I tried a while back, it would be an easy recommendation.

73 of the top 100 most popular Steam games are playable on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a little while since checking how well the top 100 most played games on Steam work on Linux and the Steam Deck, so here's a fresh run over the list for you.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder to leave Early Access this 'Summer'

By Liam Dawe,
Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder is a great little auto-battler with dungeon crawling that allows you to build up a truly ridiculous combination of characters and it's getting ready to leave Early Access.

Steam Deck Verified and Playable hit a thousand games

By Liam Dawe,
Just about a week after the Steam Deck formally released, we have officially hit over one thousand games that are either Steam Deck Verified or Playable.

Proton Experimental heats up with fixes coming, plus a disk space saving measure

By Liam Dawe,
Now that the huge release of Steam Play Proton 7.0-1 is out, work begins again on Proton Experimental as it pulls in all the latest changes for you to play with.

A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition

By Liam Dawe,
To begin 2022, let's take a fresh look at the current top 100 Steam games and see how well (or not) the run on Linux.

More BattlEye titles for Proton on Linux including DayZ, ARMA 3 now supported

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has announced today that BattlEye support on Linux with Steam Play Proton has expanded, with new titles available.

Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands expansion is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands is a brand new expansion for the popular mix of strategy and exploration from publisher Raw Fury and developers Stumpy Squid / Fury Studios.
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