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Alien: Isolation Released For Linux, Prepare Your Spare Pants, Port Report, Review & Sale

By Liam Dawe, 27 Oct 2015

Alien: Isolation has officially been released for Linux, and continues our trend of great AAA games. I would recommend playing this from behind a pillow, with emergency pants nearby.

The Long Dark Survival Game Launches An Experimental Branch For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2015

The Long Dark is a survival game I've been excited to play for over a year now, as the style is fantastic, and it has some really great reviews.

Developers Of Ashes Of The Singularity State Linux Will Come After Vulkan Arrives

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2015

Ashes of the Singularity looks like an awesome RTS game to try, and the developers have confirmed again they want to do Linux, but they are waiting for Vulkan.

Chaos Reborn Fantasy Strategy Game Fully Released For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2015

As a big fan of the XCOM games, I was really excited to see what the original designer could do with his next game. Chaos Reborn is an interesting take on the fantasy turn based strategy genre.

GOL Game Jam Has Entered Rating Phase

By Samsai, 26 Oct 2015

Submission phase for the first ever GOL Game Jam has ended and now begins the rating phase. You can now head on over to the jam page and check out all the entries and rate them based on a couple of simple metrics.

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Endless Sky, An Open Source & Open World Space Sim Inspired By Escape Velocity

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2015

People say we don't cover enough open source, well here's a good one for you. Endless Sky is something I've only recently discovered, and I sort of fell in love with it.

MegaSphere, An Action Platformer With Gorgeous Art In Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2015

Play as a special ops combat unit sent to investigate why the stars around Solar System are going dark in MegaSphere. A gorgeous looking action platformer with story elements.

Shallow Space Strategy Game Released For Linux In Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2015

Shallow Space has me excited, as it could be our answer to a Homeworld-like game on Linux, but it's early days yet for it.

Murder Miners FPS Now On Linux In Beta

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2015

We mentioned that Murder Miners was on its way to Linux, and it has arrived already in beta form! I tested it out very quickly earlier, and it seems to run perfectly.

First-Person Adventure 'Pulse' Released On Humble And Steam

By flesk, 23 Oct 2015

Pulse is an adventure game about a girl who lost her sight at an early age, and who is able to explore the world through sound.

Organ Trail: Director's Cut Big New DLC

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2015

Organ Trail: Director's Cut was a pretty cool game when I tried it a while ago, and it's great to see it has been updated again with a huge DLC.

Retro Flight Simulators Under The 'Falcon Collection' Now On GOG For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2015

We have been treated to some more retro gold here folks, as the Falcon games are now on Linux thanks to the team at GOG.

Larian Rep Responds To Criticism Over The Linux Delay Of Divinity: Original Sin

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2015

A fellow on the official Steam forum for Divinity: Original Sin has been commenting to Linux users criticising the delay, and it's an interesting read.

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Friday Livestream, Now With More GL4, Starting At 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 23 Oct 2015

Yesterday I spent some time upgrading my main rig to Xubuntu 15.10. I did that because I heard of a PPA that contains Mesa drivers compiled against LLVM 3.8. What that means is that I can do GL4 on RadeonSI. And that's what we will do today!