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Tanks Of Freedom, A Turn-based, Isometric, Classic Strategy Game Built With Godot

By P1X,
Tanks Of Freedom is an open source (MIT License) isometric strategy game, originally started for the Global Game Jam 2015.

Steam Hardware Survey For February 2015

By Metallinatus,
Here's the Steam Hardware survey results for February 2015 with one interesting difference from the past surveys.

Tell Blizzard You Want Linux Support In Their Games

By Liam Dawe,
I have been hesitant to cover things like petitions and forum posts in the past, especially for Blizzard, but now seems like the best time to really get them to listen to us.

Nvidia PhysX Source Code Now Available Free On GitHub

By Liam Dawe,
Nvidia has now put up the PhysX SDK on github for everyone to sink their teeth into, like with Unreal Engine it does require you agree to their EULA though, so it's not "free software".

Contagion, Cooperative Survival Horror FPS Is Still Planned For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I managed to get hold of the Contagion developers, and they confirmed the Linux port is still planned! We haven’t heard from them about it since June last year, so it’s good to see it hasn't been forgotten.

Gabe Newell Talks Steam, Vulkan With Support From Blizzard, Source 2 And More

By Liam Dawe,
MaximumPCMag managed to interview Gabe Newell of Valve, and he talks a lot about some very interesting things.

Rex Rocket, A Slick Looking Retro Action Platformer Now Available On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Rex Rocket comes from the mind of Castle Pixel, LLC. and the porting skills of Ethan Lee (flibitijibibo), and it’s available on Linux now. Inspired by the retro glory days of 8-bit games, Rex Rocket is a traditional 2D platformer brought into the 21st century.

Source 2 Will Be Completely Free To Use

By Liam Dawe,
More news on Source 2 has been circling around, and the great news is that it will be completely free to use, but it does have one little stipulation.

Shelter 2, An Open World Adventure Game Looks Like It Will Get A Day 1 Linux Release

By Liam Dawe,
Shelter 2, a really interesting looking open world adventure game has announced that Linux should see a day 1 release now.

Dying Light Massive Patch Due 10th of March, And New DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light is due to get a massive patch next week which should have the performance fixes we have been waiting on, a load of free content, and a new DLC too.

It's The Time For Friday Livestream! Join In At 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Hey hey hey, it's Friday again which means that it's time to consume bandwidth by livestreaming Linux gaming to you around the world. So let's do just that!

The Wine Development Release 1.7.38 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.38 bringing many new features and as many as 57 bugfixes.

Adventure Platformer 'The Deer God' Out Of Early Access, It's Good But With Unreleased Potential

By flesk,
We covered the crowd-funded platformer from Crescent Moon Games when it released in Early Access on Steam in December. The game had its full release last week and we've taken a look at it.

GOL Cast: Exploring Virtual Memories In Soul Axiom

By Samsai,
Ever thought about recording your thoughts and memories into a computer to relive the happiest moments of your life again and again and again? Well, here we have a game in which we can explore what might happen if such technology was available to us. Let's go see what Soul Axiom has in store for us!

Valve Developed Own Vulkan Driver For Intel, They Demo Dota 2 On Source 2

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have been extremely busy, and we are already seeing some fruits of their work. They have written a Vulkan driver for an Intel GPU, showed Source 2 with Dota 2 on it, and they will open source the driver.

Itch Game Store Announces Open Revenue Sharing

By Liam Dawe,
It seems pretty standard across stores that they take a bit fat cut of developers revenue, but Itch.io is aiming to change this.

Steam Now Has Official Hardware Pages On Its Store (UPDATED)

By Liam Dawe,
I was wondering when they would do this! Steam Machines, Steam Link, and the Steam Controller have all gained store pages in a new Hardware section on Steam. This should help sales, a lot. UPDATED.

Torchlight II Now On Linux, Old News By A Day, But Here’s My Report

By Liam Dawe,
You know since yesterday with our massive SteamOS news post that Torchlight II is now on Linux, but since the dust is settling we have had some time to check out the port, here’s how it runs.

14 Steam Machines Revealed At GDC, Some Thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
With GDC being in full swing we’ve had a chance to take a look at 14 different models of Steam Machine thanks to Ars Technica, and the findings are interesting.

Planetary Annihilation Making A Go At Linux Stability, Report Your Bugs

By Liam Dawe,
Just a friendly note that Uber Entertainment are wanting feedback on Linux issues in Planetary Annihilation, as they want to make it a great experience.