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A review of point-and-click adventure Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, now on Steam

By flesk, 22 Mar 2016

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is comedian Alasdair Beckett-King's follow-up to the popular 2007 adventure, Spoonbeaks Ahoy!, and has been developed in cooperation with developer and publisher Application Systems Heidelberg.

Out of the Park Baseball 17 Released

By homerj, 22 Mar 2016

Today marks the yearly release of Out of the Park Baseball. Similar to Football Manager, OOTP creates the entire world of baseball and puts managing your favorite team at your fingertips.

Hyper Light Drifter release date set for 31st of March, Linux should be a day 1 release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2016

Hyper Light Drifter is one I have kept an eye on since the Kickstarter, as graphically it looks vibrant and beautiful. The good news is the release date now set as the 31st of March should include Linux too.

Cities: Skylines updated with new map tools and tons of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2016

Cities: Skylines continues to get better with this latest major patch. It brings new tools for map makers and tons of bug fixes.

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, previously named Umbra still plans a Linux version

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2016

Good news folks, Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem which was previously named Umbra is sitll coming to Linux the developers confirmed to me.

Wine staging 1.9.6 adds Vulkan support and disables CSMT

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2016

Looks like Vulkan support is coming to a Wine development version near you soon, as the latest Wine Staging 1.9.6 build has a conforment Vulkan implementation. It also disables CSMT as it's becoming incompatible.

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XCOM 2 patched for Linux, and Anarchy’s Children DLC now available

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2016

Good news alien hunting fans, XCOM 2 has been patched for Linux and the Anarchy’s Children DLC is now enabled for us.

Remember I mentioned the pirate combat game Tempest could come to Linux? It's coming soon for sure now

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2016

I'm glad this one turned out to be true, as Tempest really does look like a fun pirate combat game. They just had a big open world update too!

PAYDAY 2 now available on SteamOS & Linux, free to try for a few days

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

The co-op shooter PAYDAY 2 is now officially available on SteamOS & Linux, yet another popular game!

OpenToonz, animation software with features used by Studio Ghibli releasing this month

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

Not exactly gaming news, but could be useful for developers. Dwango has obtained the rights to the animation software Toonz used by Studio Ghibli and plan to release an open source version named OpenToonz.

Nvidia 364.12 released for Linux with official Vulkan, Mir & Wayland support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

Well Nvidia dropped a bit of a big one today didn't they! Nvidia driver version 364.12 is now out and brings in official Vulkan support, Mir support and Wayland support.

The newest Worms game Worms W.M.D is confirmed to be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

Team17 really are getting more Linux friendly, and the latest game in the Worms series title 'Worms W.M.D' will be heading to Linux at release.

Stardew Valley developer says Linux is a top priority, woohoo

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

Good news for everyone wanting to play it on Linux (including me), as the developer of Stardew Valley has said Linux is a top priority.

RC Mini Racers now available on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2016

RC Mini Racers is a fast paced arcade racing game with weapons, and it has just arrived on SteamOS/Linux.

Looks like the F1 2015 Linux private beta was left open for the free weekend

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2016

There will likely be a few embarrassed developers about this, but it looks like the private beta for the Linux port of F1 2015 has been left open during the free weekend.

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See how well SteamOS can run Arma 3 against Windows in this new video

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2016

Disclaimer: not our video, but as usual I like to highlight videos that show how performance on SteamOS/Linux compares with Windows.

GOL SteamOS & Linux Survey results for February

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2016

Here are the latest results from the monthly GOL survey. Wait, you already did February? Previously we were showing the results as the month we presented results, which was wrong (last months posted was amended).