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GZDOOM based fan game 'Castlevania: Simon's Destiny' has a nice graphical update out

By Liam Dawe,
Another GZDOOM fan game has been updated recently, this time we have the rather good Castlevania: Simon's Destiny.

Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for those of you using an AMD GPU, as Mesa with radeonsi now has support for compatibility profiles up to OpenGL 4.4.

Find Doom a bit too dark? Doom: The Golden Souls 2 is a free colourful FPS

By Liam Dawe,
Doom: The Golden Souls 2 is another interesting free GZDoom game, taking some inspirations from Mario.

Shockolate is a new cross-platform source port of System Shock 1

By Liam Dawe,
Fancy playing System Shock 1 using an open source game engine that's cross-platform? Give me some Shockolate.

A look at what's currently on sale and good for Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
The weekend is nearing, you're in need of more games to fill up your backlog with and so we're here to help you satisfy that need.

The Humble Daedalic Bundle 2018 is a good deal for Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
Humble are doing a pretty good bundle once again with the The Humble Daedalic Bundle 2018 that has some good Linux games.

Some early thoughts on Fort Triumph, the tactical RPG with interactive environments

By Liam Dawe,
Tactical RPG Fort Triumph recently released into Early Access, I took a look and here's some thoughts on how it is right now.

The latest Steam Client update is out, breaks gamepads in Big Picture Mode on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Client update has left beta, bringing the Bluetooth Low Energy mode to everyone with the Steam Controller amongst other things. It also, sadly, broke other gamepad support in Big Picture mode.

Jupiter Hell, the modern turn-based sci-fi roguelike is going with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Jupiter Hell, the modern turn-based sci-fi roguelike from developer ChaosForge is moving over to using Vulkan.

Basingstoke from Puppy Games is a tense mix of stealth and action, it's out now

By Liam Dawe,
Puppy Games latest rather good game, Basingstoke, offers up some truly intense action and some clever use of stealth.

Midnight Ultra, a colourful retro-inspired FPS is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by DOOM, Quake, and action games from a time long gone, Midnight Ultra is a very colourful FPS that just added Linux support.

Pillars of Eternity II will be getting three post-launch content packs

By BTRE,
It should come as no surprise that in a world where DLC seems as inevitable as death and taxes, the latest RPG from Obsidian will be getting its own share of post-launch content. Three different packs with different types of content will follow in the months after launch.

Mr. Friendly is a new nonviolent Doom mod where you help the monsters recover

By Liam Dawe,
Doom, the classic first-person shooter has a huge modding community and it's incredible to see what people make. The latest I came across is a nonviolent mod named Mr. Friendly.

For The King, a strategic RPG with turn-based combat looks like it's being prepped for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
For The King, a strategic RPG that has turn-based combat along with procedural maps, quests, and events looks like it's being prepped for a Linux version as the final release is soon.

The Adventures of Square is mildly amusing retro FPS that's free with a second episode out now

By Liam Dawe,
The Adventures of Square is a free retro FPS built with the GZDoom engine and it turns out it's pretty amusing.

The first results of the GZDoom survey are out, 10% are on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Recently GZDoom was updated and with it they added in a new hardware survey, the first results are now available.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Hello! I have reclaimed the Friday stream and as always, I have a show planned (more or less) for your weekly entertainment! So, get your snacks and viewing devices ready for some live Linux gaming! Do take note of the daylight saving!

Enhanced Doom engine 'GZDoom' has a fresh release, now collecting hardware information

By Liam Dawe,
GZDoom, the enhanced Doom engine has a new release out to add in new features, bug fixes and collect some hardware information.

Doom (2016) could have been on Linux, id Software made a Linux version sound easy to do

By Liam Dawe,
Doom 2016 supports Vulkan and at GDC this year developers from id Software talked a little about it, including how easy a Linux version could have been.

Playing Prey on Linux in 2018

By Hamish,
Continuing on from my previous articles on how to get both Doom 3 and Quake 4 running on modern Linux systems, I felt the time was right to look at Prey, another id Tech 4 based game with a native Linux port. It did not take me long to discover that the main issue people were likely to run into with Prey had nothing to do with the game itself.
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