Category: Editorial

I hope everyone has a good night partying, playing games, watching films or whatever you do. It's nearly 2016 now, so here's to another great year, cheers!

Itch.io has become a popular distribution platform among developers for its many and flexible tools for distributing and promoting games. We take a closer look at what they have to offer us Linux gamers.

I know everyone doesn't celebrate the same occasions and holidays and what-not, so I will simply say Happy Holidays and wish you all the very best.

Welcome to our second year of doing a GOTY Awards, this year we added many more categories based on feedback.

This one is quite vague, but a new job posting may suggest that a Linux port of Elite: Dangerous isn't out of the question.

Insurgency was very exciting to have on Linux, as it's the most tactical FPS game we have available. The new updates have made it much more fun too, with gamepad support and decent Steam Controller support added in.

A big shame, but with all the other games I have right now I'm a little spoilt for choice anyway. Rocket League developers emailed our youtuber friend Jake to confirm it's not this year. UPDATED.

AMD are stepping up their open source game again, as they have announced GPUOpen to rival Nvidia's GameWorks.

Read the latest in crowdfunding news for Linux in the last issue of The Funding Crowd this side of New Year's.

Albion Online is already looking like a massive success, and their recently released statistics give me hope for it.

I am all for increasing performance on Linux games, and KDE developer Martin Gräßlin does have some interesting thoughts, but I disagree with a lot of it.

Oh Techland, if Dying Light wasn't one of our very few open world games I would probably like you a lot less. You might be wondering why I am being rather blunt, well, their latest patch for Dying Light has removed everyone's heads on Linux.

So, a lot of people were excited about Unity adding in their new and much more modern OpenGL system. The sad news is that it won't give as big a performance boost as we were hoping.

Every year, when we're near the end, we start to create some summaries. I've just decided to do small summary of what happened for me (a Linux gamer) this year. I am going to focus on AAA titles (and those that are close to be AAA), so if you're interested in Indie games, it's possible that this article is not for you.

Reading through the Feral Interactive Facebook page, I stumbled upon this post, which is the most elaborate about the topic by Feral I know of about AMD support.

I may not like Garry Newman, or his games, but I know they are important to some people. I thought it was worth highlighting this.

Tesla Effect was a pretty interesting looking game, but sadly the Linux release never happened and not because the developer didn't try.

We all love a bit of speculation now and then (okay, some really don't, but I do), and to me it looks like the Saints Row series will all launch on Linux together.

We knew Linux wouldn't suddenly climb the ladder in Steam's Hardware Survey, as it's going to take a lot of time. The latest is out, and we are holding steady.

Some good news about the whole Steam Machine parade, OC3D did a pretty long review of the ZBOX NEN SN970 and they liked it so much they gave it an award.