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I’ve been playing through Micro Machines World Series and I have to say it’s absolutely fantastic. It’s really damn fun and great to have it on Linux!

Weekend, ahoy! Friday has arrived and, as usual, I will be blasting video frames and audio bits at you over the Internet as we play some Linux games and stream them over Twitch! So, get your snacks ready for some live Linux gaming!

Deep Sixed is a space survival game where you're given control of a defective spaceship with a mission to explore a large nebula, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it turns out.

I've been playing a bit of MidBoss, a new roguelike from Kitsune Games with the Linux port from Ethan Lee. Here's what I think so far.

Blasphemous, a dark and brutal non-linear platformer is currently on Kickstarter and it looks pretty good. It's already funded too and it's heading to Linux.

Friday is upon us and that naturally means a livestream will be organized in celebration of the arrival of yet another Friday! So, come along for the ride as I play some video games and transmit the captured frames over the internet to your computer!

Want a chance to be the villain? Wish granted! Nefarious, an action platform about kidnapping princesses has a Linux version and it's not bad.

Jupiter Hell, a project I personally backed is really showing how to do a Kickstarter properly in terms of Linux support and open communication.

Classic first-person shooters are without question my favourite video game genre, and it would be nice to be able to sit down and play more Indie games that can satisfy both my classic FPS craving while at the same time pushing the genre forward. Ziggurat attempts to do both, and it wins my respect for that.

After four months researching Star Wars games, Cheese has released a big interactive timeline and writeup. Here's an excerpt covering the games available for Linux!

The Whispered World Special Edition, a game I wished was on Linux before I reviewed Silence has been officially released today for Linux gamers.

Strife: Quest for the Sigil was both a critical and commercial disappointment for Rogue Entertainment in 1996, and the source code to the game was mislaid by its developers. Years later work begin on reverse engineering Strife using the released Doom code. Night Dive Studios would later use this community project to craft The Original Strife: Veteran Edition.

Continuing my love for Croteam, today it was pointed out on reddit that the Croteam developers have been talking quite a bit more about Vulkan on one of their Steam forums. They also stated that Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter should have the Fusion update with Linux & Vulkan in 'weeks'.

The Wine Staging team has release their 2.0 release and they have also written up a blog post detailing work on Vulkan, DX11 and more. Seems a number of DX11 games now work!

Something I forgot to write up, was that the latest Steam survey is out. Linux dropped by 0.08% according to the figures.

Wine Staging, the testing area for future Wine releases has been updated today and it pulls in some patches that allow DOOM to actually run with Wine on Linux.

Jupiter Hell, the glorious looking modern roguelike has been over-funded on Kickstarter and so it's officially on its way to Linux.

After ZeniMax sent the lawyers knocking, the developer of what was called DoomRL (Doom Roguelike) has changed it's name to 'DRL' and it's now open source.

This is quite sad really, ZeniMax are now sending their cronies after DoomRL the Doom-inspired roguelike.

If you're looking to play an adventure game but you don't have a lot of time, then you may be interested to check "Sisyphus Reborn", a lightweight (300 MB) and short existential adventure that will only take you 40 minutes to finish (and that includes getting all the achievements).