Category: Editorial

Quadro Delta has put up a web page to tease their upcoming game and are promising to reveal more details as people guess the name of the upcoming game.

One of the Minecraft developers shared a graph today of different launches of Minecraft across PC platforms, and the results are interesting.

Aspyr Media has posted a new update on the Linux port of Civilization: Beyond Earth. Some bad news this time, as it looks like the port might be delayed and support for Intel and ATI graphics cards might be missing on release. UPDATED

Hi, hello, I will be taking this post from now on and will do the basic thing that is done every month, give some thoughts on it and the usual disclaimers to not take these numbers as something precise or some real representation of us or something like that.

GOG & Steam have both hit new milestones when it comes to Linux games. This is really fantastic to see, and we hope it keeps up.

Welcome to The 40th Funding Crowd! Yep, if it were a person, it would probably be struggling with its mid-life crisis. But since it isn't, it comes stronger than ever with an issue full of content.

Aspyr Media has posted a new update about Civilization: Beyond Earth on their developers blog and it looks like the game might be out in time for Christmas.

The 0 A.D. team have been extremely busy as always to bring us the latest and greatest in open source RTS gaming.

An editorial talking about what you can do for Linux gaming. Including when to buy games, and what distribution to use to make sure you get support.

It seems Valve have no plans to attend CES next year, but they did confirm they are planning a large presence at GDC. Looks like there will be a lot of Steam Machine news next year!

Feral Interactive are being sneaky, as they have given a little hint towards their next game, and it's quite obvious it's for Linux.

Another blog post from Aspyr Media has surfaced about their porting efforts on Civilization: Beyond Earth, and the news is looking good.

Leszek Godlewski announced on Twitter that he will be leaving the Linux porting business, but the news isn't that bad. One of the original coders is taking over the Linux port of Darksiders.

I have been really looking forward to playing Legend of Grimrock 2 soon. Unfortunately, the game is not available for Linux yet, and as it seems it's not certain whether we will see it on Linux at all.

Welcome to TFC#39! Back to a fortnightly schedule and that timing turned out to be super important! Why? Read this new issue if you want to find out.

Kyle Pittman From Minor Key Games who created Super Win The Game has done a blog post on Gamasutra about their games, and it shows more poor reception from Linux gamers.

It's never a good idea to send a death threat even if you don't mean it, but to then leave the studio you work for, and then re-join, well then...

It's always sad to read things like this. The developer of Frozen Synapse Prime has spoken out about why there's no Linux port, and the news for us isn't exactly peachy.

Divinity: Original Sin has pushed back the Linux version once again, so you can give up on seeing it this year.

Some more news for you sci-fi fans, as Aspyr Media have written out another blog post on their porting efforts, but the most interesting read is what they replied to me on reddit with.