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Rushdown Revolt is a new combo-centric platform-fighter coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2021

Do you love platform fighters like Smash Bros, Brawlhalla, Rivals of Aether and others? Keep an eye out on Rushdown Revolt which is currently in Alpha and it recently gained experimental Linux support.

Check out the demo for Big Boy Boxing, a playful boss-rush fighter

By Liam Dawe, 25 Oct 2021

Get ready for the punchline! Soupmaster Games announced recently their intent to support Linux with Big Boy Boxing and there's now a demo available on Steam for you to try out.

Brawlhalla to get Easy Anti-Cheat, dev puts up Beta with EAC working on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2021

Blue Mammoth Games announced that later in October that the platform-fighter Brawlhalla will be getting Easy Anti-Cheat. Thankfully, they've put up a Beta for Linux users playing it using Steam Play Proton and it works.

First-person brawler Paint the Town Red is officially out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2021

After a long time in Early Access, you can now go ahead and start all kinds of ridiculous fights in the first-person brawler Paint the Town Red as it's out properly now.

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare rolls out with a free update for all players

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2021

Today is the day! Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare is out now expanding the beat 'em up with a bunch of new content, plus there's a free upgrade for all players.

Them's Fightin' Herds looks better than ever with the HD upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2021

Them's Fightin' Herds is a wonderful fighting game that came to Linux officially recently, and with the 2.1.0 update that's out now it looks graphically better than ever.

The next Skullgirls 2nd Encore fighter is Umbrella who carries a hungry sentient brolly

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2021

Hidden Variable, Future Club, and Autumn Games have confirmed that the next fighter entering Skullgirls 2nd Encore is Umbrella, who carries a huge hungry brolly around.

Them's Fightin' Herds is now available on Linux with the 2.0 update out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2021

Ready, FIGHT! Them's Fightin' Herds from Mane6, Inc. and Humble Games has now been officially ported to Linux with the 2.0 patch release and the Shanty character DLC is out now too.

Them's Fightin' Herds for Linux to release on March 25 with the 2.0 update

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2021

After some delays the crowdfunded indie fighting game with characters designed by acclaimed cartoon producer Lauren Faust, Them's Fightin' Herds, will release for Linux on March 25.

Skullgirls: Annie goes up in Beta along with the Season Pass and a Linux support update

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2021

Ready to beat 'em up? Get ready for a fight as Skullgirls 2nd Encore now has the Annie DLC available in Beta along with the Season Pass and Linux users can get in on the fun.

Linux support for Skullgirls to continue, everyone upgraded to Skullgirls 2nd Encore free

By Liam Dawe, 25 Feb 2021

Quite a bit of ground to cover on the popular fighting game Skullgirls, now that the dust has settled with Lab Zero Games imploding and Hidden Variable Studios / Autumn Games taking back control.

Them's Fightin' Herds for Linux now planned for the 2.0 update and the port is 'done'

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2021

We've been waiting a while now on the upcoming official Linux support for Them's Fightin' Herds and it's coming closer but we're seeing a delay.

Upcoming fighting game Fraymakers is a massive success on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2020

McLeodGaming, creators of the popular Super Smash Flash 2, have successfully funded Fraymakers on Kickstarter with Linux support confirmed and it was a big campaign for them.

Fraymakers aims to be the ultimate customizable Smash-like platform fighting game

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2020

Fraymakers is a brand new platform fighter coming from McLeodGaming, the creators of Super Smash Flash 2 which is the most popular Smash Bros. fan-game on PC.

Multiplayer arena fighter 'Mighty Fight Federation' has Linux support on the roadmap

By Liam Dawe, 17 Nov 2020

Mighty Fight Federation is a multiplayer arena fighter with a focus on "fighting game fundamentals" that recently launched officially for Windows in Early Access but Linux is in their plans.

Steam has a big fighting game sale going on right now

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2020

Never missing an opportunity to run a big sale, Valve have put together a big fighting game sale including multiple genres with lots of games going cheap.

Fighting game FOOTSIES Rollback Edition is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2020

Stripping back fighting games to the ground-based combat experience and back to the basics, FOOTSIES Rollback Edition is out now on Linux.

Them's Fightin' Herds getting real close to Linux support, with macOS to follow after

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2020

It's been a long time coming but it sounds like it's seriously close now, with the major OpenGL rendering work for Them's Fightin' Herds on Linux being done.