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Unity Editor For Linux In Progress, Experimental Build Could Come Soon

By Liam Dawe,
It was heavily requested, and a Unity developer has written a blog post giving us a lot more insight into what’s going on.

Pillars Of Eternity 2.0 & Expansions Announced, Looking Great

By Liam Dawe,
Pillars Of Eternity looks to be solving issues I had with it, and then some with the 2.0 release and expansion.

SMACH Zero, A SteamOS Handheld Official Specifications Revealed

By Liam Dawe,
SMACH Zero previously known as the SteamBoy has revealed the specifications it should be releasing with.

Arcade Brawler 'Kung Fury: Street Rage' Available On Steam For Linux

By flesk,
Street Rage is the video game tie-in to the 80s style action comedy flick Kung Fury, which was funded on Kickstarter last year.

Distance Is The Racing Game I Never Knew I Wanted On Linux, Some Thoughts & Video

By Liam Dawe,
Distance is a beautiful neon survival racer that I finally had a chance to play, and what I found really did surprise me.

Gameplay Trailer Released For Upcoming Co-Op Platformer Shift Happens

By flesk,
Shift Happens is a co-op platformer in development built around the concept of shifting mass between two player characters, and it promises a "shiftload" of fun action and puzzles.

Developer of Limit Theory Has Returned After Months of Silence

By Samsai,
Some of you might remember this open, procedurally generated space exploration / exploitation game that was kickstarted in late 2012. The project has now woken up from extended, months-long cryosleep.

Oil Enterprise Strategy Game In Early Access For Linux Gamers

By someone,
Oil Enterprise is a business simulation that has been available in steam Early Access for about a month and it has been available for Linux from day-1.

VoidExpanse Space RPG Major Updates & It Now Uses Correct Linux Data Structure

By Liam Dawe,
VoidExpanse is a good looking and fun space RPG game from AtomicTorch Studio. It has recently been through some major updates, and they finally sorted a proper Linux structure for their data files.

It's Livestream Night, Come Join The Friday Livestream At 5 PM UTC! [Highlights added!]

By Samsai,
Last week I was on summer cottage and was unable to broadcast but this week it will be different! Namely, I'm at home and I actually have a reliable Internet connection. I also have some games to play, so that's cool!

The Wine Development Release 1.7.46 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.46 have many small changes including 67 bugfixes.

Looks Like STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords Is Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Well I do love SteamDB, as it appears STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ has a Linux icon added, so it looks like the previous ESRB leak about a Linux version could be true after all.

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved On Linux, Here’s What I Think

By Liam Dawe,
Geometry Wars 3 has been out on Linux for a while now, but sadly it was left outdated for too long with issues. The update is out, so how is the game on Linux?

ARK: Survival Evolved Linux Release Delayed For The End Of June

By Liam Dawe,
ARK: Survival Evolved sadly won't hit the release date today for the Linux & Mac versions, but they sent word that it will release on Tuesday the 30th of June.

AMD's New R9 Graphics Cards Will Support Vulkan & OpenGL 4.5

By Liam Dawe,
AMD has launched their new AMD Radeon™ R9 Series, and with it comes a promise of OpenGL 4.5 and future Vulkan support.

Terraria Sandbox Game Plans A July Linux Release

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like an early birthday present is on its way to me, as the Terraria developers have officially stated Linux & Mac builds should be out in July.

LEGO Minifigures Online Is Officially Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
LEGO Minifigures Online originally appeared on SteamDB back in March, but the developers Funcom said to us directly Linux wasn't planned. Their official site, and Steam store page now officially mention Linux as a supported platform. Bring on the bricks.

Linux Editor Mentioned On The Unity Roadmap

By Samsai,
The roadmap for Unity, the extremely popular game engine has been updated. Apparently a Linux editor for Unity is in-progress, but it may be a while before we see it.

GOL Cast: Double The Headache With Snakebird And TIS-100

By Samsai,
So I heard you like puzzle games. Well, since relatively recently we have gotten two light-weight and relatively simple (as in, simple concept) puzzle games I decided to be more super productive and put them both in the same article. Enjoy the double first impressions!

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut Has A Trailer, It's Exciting

By Liam Dawe,
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut has me pretty damn excited, especially as I haven't played much of it yet. The new "E3" (bit late aren't you InXile?) trailer is looking great.