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The bottle for Wine 5.0 has officially been popped open as it's out now

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

The day has arrived, the official stable release of Wine 5.0 has arrived bringing thousands of improvements and a bunch of new features.

Tower Of God: One Wish, a nice casual match-3 game released recently

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

A genre Linux surprisingly doesn't have a huge selection in is Match 3 puzzle games, thankfully if you love these casual games a new one is out with Tower Of God: One Wish.

The sixth Release Candidate for Wine 5.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2020

The Wine team have released a sixth and perhaps final Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release of Wine 5.0.

The hero is dead so it's up to you to fix a glitched world - Lenna's Inception is out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

The debut game from Bytten Studio, Lenna's Inception comes from two former Chucklefish developers and it's out now.

Boxtron, the Steam Play tool to run games through a native DOSBox on Linux has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Boxtron is another awesome Steam Play tool! Covered here a few times now, like Proton it enables you to play games on Linux that don't have a Linux build setup on Steam only this is for DOSBox games.

A Long Way Down blends together Slay the Spire card combat with maze building - now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

One thing is for sure, Slay the Spire truly has kicked off a deck-building indie game revolution of sorts. More and more are releasing with deck-building and A Long Way Down seems like one of the better ones so far.

Core Defense aims to mix up the Tower Defense genre with deck-building and randomness - out now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Core Defense, available today in First Access on itch.io is a Tower Defense game that's trying to be a little different. Throwing out predefined waves and rewards, in favour of a little random generation.

Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo arcade shooter released

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a long name and this is supposed to be the expanded edition of the 2019 release, giving additional arcade-style shoot 'em up action.

Wine 5.0 has a fifth Release Candidate, getting real close to final now

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2020

The 5.0 stable release of Wine is really closing in now, with a fifth Release Candidate being released today with some more bug fixes noted.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

Up for a retro adventure? The Space Quest II remake is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

Space Quest II from Sierra On-Line, originally released back in 1987 not long before I was born, has been revived by Infamous Adventures.

Stylish and tough rogue-lite shooter 'Danger Gazers' released

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

ShotX Studio (Kontrakt, Riskers) recently released Danger Gazers, a very stylish rogue-lite shooter with a lot to like about it.

Shadow & The Blade DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II is out now for Linux, plus a big new patch

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Today the porting studio Feral Interactive have managed to get The Shadow & The Blade DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II out for the Linux version.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.1 is out with tons of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of the open source gaming space has a fresh new release out with version 1.1.

A fourth release candidate is out for Wine 5.0

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

With a full release expected a bit later this month, Wine 5.0 has a fourth release candidate up to get in some last testing.

Survive the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in Z Dawn, recently released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

One missed from early last month is Z Dawn from GoldenGod Games, a fast-paced turn-based survival strategy game about getting through the zombie apocalypse.

devilutionX, an open source game engine for the original Diablo sees a big release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.

Monolith: Relics of the Past extends the excellent shooter with a ridiculous amount of extra content

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2019

Monolith's twin-stick rogue-lite room to room shooting is practically perfection, it didn't need an expansion but I'm glad Relics of the Past exists so I can sit and play a huge amount more.