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On this day, last year, Valve released Steam Machines onto the world, after the typical Valve delays. While the state of the Linux desktop regarding gaming has improved, Steam Machines have not taken off as a platform, and SteamOS remains stagnant. What happened with these projects from Valve? Why were they created, why did they fail, and what could have been done to make them succeed?

After purchasing 'Motorsport Manager' at release, I was a bit confused as to why it had a SteamOS icon when it downloaded nothing. Sadly, it seems this is false advertising as the developers planned to release it for Linux later. Updated: After I contacted Valve, the SteamOS icon was removed.

I loved the first Half-Life, so the chance to revisit it in Black Mesa was too enticing to pass up, sadly though you may want to hold off for now.

Space Jammers is a very cool roguelike shooter that currently has a free demo version available, and now it's on Kickstarter to finish the job.

Planet Explorers has been in development for quite a while, with a Kickstarter in 2013 and Early Access in 2014 it has finally seen a full release.

0 A.D. Alpha 21 Ulysses is the latest and greatest open source real time strategy game, and probably one of the most high quality open source games around.

Plenty of big releases recently, but let's not forget about the little guy. Super Blue Fighter, a casual arcade survival game now has Linux support.

Enter the Gungeon is the fast paced action dungeon crawler that's damn fun, but one issue I repeatedly had with it was the broken audio when you alt + tab, that's now fixed.

The newest simulation game for Linux, ‘Transport Fever’ is now available, and I spent some time with it before release to see if it is worth your monies.

Scary Humans is a small and difficult survival game where you are constantly being chased by those pesky Humans. Is it worth your bucks?

Company of Heroes 2 has been updated for Linux by Feral Interactive, it brings in some important fixes as well as bring it up to date with the latest Windows-version patches.

Dead Age is a pretty great looking Early Access Zombie survival RPG, it has turn-based battles, and a non-linear story that could set it apart from other Zombie games.

If you were interested in picking up 'White Noise 2' from Milkstone Studios, you may want to hold off. It seems to be completely broken on any recent distribution.

The recent Steam Dev Days 2016 now has videos of the talks available, so it could be something interesting for you to watch over the weekend.

Recently, Valve put out a Beta of the Steam Client that broke downloads and updates, but the latest Beta that just released should sort it out.

If you're after a bit of truly adult fun on Linux, I urge you to try out 'Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator'. It's utterly insane, brilliant and so damn funny. This post is probably not safe for work.

I sure have been kept busy this year! Here’s my take on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided now that it’s out for Linux.

With the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided release happening tomorrow, Feral Interactive have released the system requirements. It will need a pretty decent rig.

Bohemia Interactive have now formally announced 'Ylands', a cheerful sandbox game that will come to Linux in future.

We have gained a few fishing titles in the last year or so, but now we have another. Ice Lakes was released with Linux support and it doesn't look too bad at all.