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xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.

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According to the latest post on his development blog, developer J. Kyle Pittman has been working on some exciting new content for his Zelda II-esque platformer that will be included with a future relaunch of the game.

Now that I've pumped many, many hours into Dying Light, it’s time to give my real thoughts on it. Spoilers may be contained within.

Star Ruler 2 is a space strategy game I’ve been meaning to cover for some time, and I’ve given it a good go to tell you what I think. It’s interesting, but not quite my cup.

StarDrive 2 looks awesome, and to a fan of the old Master of Orion games like me it was a must buy. Here are some thoughts on it. Hint: It's great!

Hiveswap is the crowd-funded adventure game based on the unique internet comic Homestuck. The game is slated for release in mid-2015, and the first teaser is now out, along with an asset reel.

Fire is a puzzle adventure set in the Stone Age about a quest to bring fire back to your village. It's a game with a simple story, told without words, where the fun is in the enjoyable puzzles.

The free to play MOBA called 'Strife' is now on Steam, so hopefully this will solve their player count issue. It's really worth checking out if you're looking for a more relaxed experience.

I rarely play top down action games, but Biodrone Battle does look pretty good enough to make me want to write it up.

Roguelites seem to be pretty abundant these days. If you check Steam, Desura or pretty much any online game store, you will find tons and tons of games that advertise themselves as roguelites. Delver is one too but, unlike many others, it's actually surprisingly close to the original Rogue.

If you have passed over RUNNING WITH RIFLES before, you shouldn’t have. The game is a real blast, and it has now left early access.

VoidExpanse is a really interesting 2D space sandbox RPG that has recently released in full for Linux. I hadn't tried it since January, so I've been eager to see the full release in action.

Will Fight For Food: Super Actual Sellout: Game of the Hour is actually a real name, blimey! It's a comedy role-playing brawler with deep conversation options, and a nonlinear plot.

KeeperRL is an interesting, and open source roguelike with RPG elements that is now on Steam. The code is open source, but the graphical version is not.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.40 bringing many new features and as many as 29 bugfixes.

The results for the March survey are now available for you to take a look at and compare with results from previous months. The new survey for April is also available, so make sure to fill that out if you haven't already.

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for March 2015, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux Gaming!

The people over at GoG have started a new campaign where you have the chance to reclaim some of your old (Windows) games. Now at first this may not sound too useful for us Linux gamers, but let's be honest, not all old Windows games will ever come to Linux so Wine is often the only solution if you want to play them.

Parcel was released in Early Access on Steam last week. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it has a lot of content, interesting mechanics, and is one you should keep an eye on if you're a fan of story-focused puzzlers.