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It seems that XCOM 2 has been announced after a teaser campaign by 2K. The AdventFuture.org website 2K brought online last week was now confirmed to be about XCOM and the reveal trailer was published. And best of all, there's a tiny little penguin and a certain feline as a mark of Linux support.

The latest game in the current trend of silly simulation experiences is one that is rooted in an familiar activity, and is actually a pretty fun experience.

Mystik Belle is an attractive-looking metroidvania with an infusion of adventure game elements that caught my eye. After giving a go, I have a few thoughts to share.

I’ve taken some time to take a look at Warlocks Vs Shadows which is a really great looking 2D side-scrolling action RPG. I've taken quite the liking to it too.

Next on the list of games that have come out of Early Access we have Verdun, an FPS set in the time of trenches, gas attacks and nearly constant machine gun fire and artillery: The Great War. Let's see how it holds!

Siralim is a crisp looking 2D RPG with Roguelike elements that has just been updated to include Linux support!

Serpent in the Staglands is a pretty interesting looking CRPG that has recently released for Linux. It actually looks a bit like the old Baldur's Gate games, but plays out quite differently.

Going as far back as the 14th of February of this year, users have been reporting that Legend of Grimrock won't even start on their Linux powered gaming machines sporting GPUs from the Nvidia GeForce GTX 900 series.

The new horror game 'SOMA' from Amnesia developer Frictional Games is due in September, and they confirmed it should be a day-1 Linux release.

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.44 have many small changes including 59 bugfixes.

The Morrowind game engine reimplementation OpenMW has taken another step towards 1.0. Version 0.36.0 doesn't bring much in the way of features for the game engine but has plenty of bug fixes.

The big patch to Planetary Annihilation that I spoke about recently has been officially released. This makes the Linux client much more stable too.

Is there any stopping GOG right now? They are really heating up the Linux releases recently, and I am sure our DRM free loving fans will snap at these.

It's Friday and if you don't know what we do on Fridays you must be new here. In any case, I welcome you to yet another Friday Livestream! May your Flash player be reasonable with its CPU usage. Or use Livestreamer. Your choice. :P

The beta for 2.5D physics puzzler Unmechanical was announced a couple of weeks ago, and is now available for all owners of the game on Steam.

Dragon Wars is a very retro turn based fantasy game, and it has been released on your favourite DRM free store with Linux support.

Heroes of Loot is a 2D dungeon crawler with twin stick like shooting, I've taken a little look so that you know what to expect.

I am always hesitant to cover any crowdfunding campaigns, but I think Voxelnauts has just won me over. All development is done on Linux, they have video's showing it, and it looks like a great game.

Jenny LeClue was funded on Kickstarter last summer. A playable teaser has now been made available, along with a new teaser trailer.

The quest and resource based adventure RPGs were both officially released for Linux this week and the first one is currently available at a hefty discount.