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Heroes of Loot 2, an arcade style dungeon crawler released with Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I'm going to be honest, I was not a fan of the original Heroes of Loot as I foundnd it too repetitive, bland and easy. Heroes of Loot 2 thankfully has improved pretty much everything.

Moonlighter, an Action RPG with shopkeeping elements is fully funded on Kickstarter and coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Always nice to see games that promise Linux support get fully funded. Moonlighter is an Action RPG with shopkeeping elements and it has been over-funded.

Dungeon Defenders developers Trendy need help updating the Linux version

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Dungeon Defenders has been out of date on Linux for a long time and the developers need a Linux developer to help get it updated.

Armory 3D, a new game engine for Blender that will be open source

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Armory 3D promises to make Blender become much more powerful for game developers and it certainly looks interesting.

MAV, a custom mech combat game will come to Linux, looks great

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I love vehicle combat games, especially when it's some form of mech unit. MAV looks interesting and it's coming to Linux.

Platformer On Rusty Trails released on Steam for Linux, some thoughts

By flesk,
On Rusty Trails is the new game from the developers of Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers and About Love, Hate & the other ones, Black Pants Game Studio.

Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines

By Liam Squires-Hand,
According to PCWorld who spoke with Chris Sutphen, the senior marketing manager at Alienware, Dell are pushing out two new Steam Machine models.

Ballistic Overkill adds Linux support, a pretty good looking online class-based FPS

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Ballistic Overkill, an online class-based FPS recently released Linux support, but it was another we totally missed. I picked up a copy and took a look.

Want to play Morrowind natively on Linux using OpenMW? Well it's on sale on GOG

By Liam Squires-Hand,
OpenMW is the open source game engine for Morrowind that is really quite amazing. If you've been wanting to try it out but you don't own Morrowind, now is a good time. GOG has it on sale for cheap.

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The HDK2 from Razer will use their OSVR ecosystem - an open source ecosystem supporting multiple types of hardware brands.

Stardew Valley for Linux should be ready very soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The developer of Stardew Valley has stated in a fresh news post that the Linux version should be ready very soon.

Croteam's Vulkan presentation slides from Reboot Develop conference are now online

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Croteam, who were the first game developer to put out a game with Vulkan (Talos Principle) have now put up their slides to their Vulkan talk.

An interview with Eagre Games about their new game, ZED

By BTRE,
I arranged an interview with Eagre to talk about ZED and their experiences with Linux and our community, including the decision to change support from a stretch goal to a base funding goal. ZED is an upcoming adventure puzzle game built with Unreal Engine 4 that’s currently on Kickstarter.

CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.

Clockwork Empires developer reaffirms Linux support will come one day

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I was pretty sad to see that the new game from Gaslamp (developer of Dredmor) Clockwork Empires didn't have a Linux version, but the developer has said again it will.

Cities: Skylines - Match Day, a free DLC to add a Stadium to your city

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Cities: Skylines has a new free DLC named Match Day which adds the ability to add a Stadium to your city.

Crea, a 2D ever-expanding sandbox RPG now fully released with Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I've kept my eye on Crea for quite a while and while it may seem a lot like Starbound and Terraria it's actually quite different.

Colony building simulation Maia has a major new update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I absolutely love the style of Maia and it's pleasing to see this gorgeous colony building sim progress. This new update is pretty decent too.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive adjusts full screen modes for Linux to help with performance

By Liam Squires-Hand,
One of the complaints recently for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been the Linux performance, so Valve have changed how fullscreen works to help.

SteamWorld Heist launched with day-1 Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Squires-Hand,
SteamWorld Heist is the follow up title to the indie hit SteamWorld Dig. A very different game, but it has the charm of the original and then some.