Category: Beta

A pretty major Steam Client Beta just landed, and with it comes hardware accelerated encoding for In-Home Streaming on Nvidia with Linux, and you can also now configure the Steam Controller for desktop mode (including using the big picture overlay when launching from the desktop client).

Albion Online is going to be something big when it's fully released, I'm sure of it. This update shows me how much they are listening to the community (within reason) too.

I have yet to give Bound By Flame a real good go, but it's really good to see this Action/RPG game get some support with a new patch in beta.

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.1 has many small changes including 38 bugfixes.

After release of stable version 1.8, Wine team opened a new development branch, 1.9. While it still doesn't include as many new features as previous development releases, there are 43 fixed bugs.

Wine development team released today the fourth release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. 26 bugs were fixed.

Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.

Albion Online is looking likely to be the most interesting MMORPG available on Linux, and their closed beta test has been announced for November.

We mentioned that Murder Miners was on its way to Linux, and it has arrived already in beta form! I tested it out very quickly earlier, and it seems to run perfectly.

Oh man, what a day. First Insurgency, and now Magicka 2 both being in Beta for Linux. Update: It's now downloading.

I have been waiting for Insurgency to come to Linux for over two years, and I'm glad to see the developers start to really make a push for us.

Good news folks, the Arma team is busy behind the scenes, and they are planning an update to the Linux beta port.

I took a quick look at Noct, a survival horror game coming out on the 22nd of October. It's unique because it's visuals are using a "thermal image satellite system high above the Earth". It sounds cool, and looks cool, but how does it play?

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.52 has many small changes including 99 bugfixes.

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.50 has many small changes including 39 bugfixes.

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.49 have many small changes including 31 bugfixes.

I am no stranger to fighting games, and I have been excited to get my hands on Skullgirls! I am lucky enough to be in the closed beta for the Linux version, so here’s a look at it.

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.48 have many small changes including 39 bugfixes.

I have received a word that Terraria's anticipated open Mac and Linux beta has now been released and you can now opt into it for some 2D survival/crafting fun.

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.47 have many small changes including 48 bugfixes.