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Dear Valve and Steam Machines OEMs, you have it all wrong


By Segata Sanshiro
Most of us reading this site want Steam Machines to do well. Not all of us will be interested in buying the hardware, but we're aware that its success is also tied to the success of Linux as a gaming platform, which is why I'm pretty miffed that the OEMs and Valve have messed it up.

Defect, the rather cool spaceship building and combat game will release in full on 26th July


By Liam Squires-Hand
Defect is a very cool idea for a spaceship combat game. You keep building a new ship to take on new challenges and your crew keep stealing it so you have to face it in combat.

Developer of 'Undertale' will apparently have another go at making a Linux port


By Liam Squires-Hand
The developer of Undertale replied to a user question about what is going on with the Linux port. The user shared it on the Steam forum for all to see.

Cold Beam Games developer claims he is working on a multi-platform engine - Linux is included


By -Daniel-Palacio-
It's definitely great — and not that usual — when developers are prudent enough to conceive their games from the ground to be multi-platform. That appears to be the case with the developer of the small studio Cold Beam Games.

Alienware do a pretty nice job of advertising their Steam Machine & SteamOS in this new video


By Liam Squires-Hand
A new promotional video from Alienware showing off their Steam Machine has surfaced recently and it's a pretty nice video.

Mesa 12 released, Vulkan for Intel, OpenGL 4.3 and more for open source graphics users


By Liam Squires-Hand
Wow, Mesa 12 has officially been released and it's a huge release for them! Intel now supports Vulkan, their OpenGL is up to 4.3 and more.

Have you seen Black Ice? A really rather cool hack and shoot FPS with Linux & SteamOS support


By Liam Squires-Hand
Black Ice is a game I have followed for a long time (and personally purchased a copy) and it just released a rather nice update. If you're an FPS fan and looking for something to sink some time into, this could be what you need.

Starbound to finally leave Early Access on 22nd July


By Liam Squires-Hand
After a number of years in development Starbound is finally about to get a full release and I can't wait to play it in full!

Fossil Echo, a story-driven, short and challenging 2D platformer confirmed for Linux, coming soon


By Liam Squires-Hand
Fossil Echo is a pretty awesome looking story-driven platformer that has plans for a Linux version, it's not ready just yet but will be soon.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.14 Is Now Available


By sobkas
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.14 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

Barony, a 3D first-person roguelike goes open source


By Liam Squires-Hand
Barony, a pretty cool looking 3D first-person roguelike has opened up the engine under the GPL license and is now on github.

Black Mesa developer shoots down anti-Linux troll, confirms Linux version is in progress


By Liam Squires-Hand
Black Mesa is officially coming to Linux, and the developer confirmed so in a rather delightful way of shooting down an anti-Linux troll in the Steam forums.

Join me for the weekly Linux Gaming livestream at around 7:30PM UTC tonight


By Liam Squires-Hand
Tonight we shall play games again for your amusement and I will continue as Samsai is currently in the Army.

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update released, patch notes up


By Liam Squires-Hand
Team Fortress 2 just became way more exciting, as the Meet Your Match update is now live after they revealed more new stuff on Day 2 of the update teaser.

Wizard of Legend seems like a promising 2D dungeon crawler, has a fun demo


By Liam Squires-Hand
Wizard of Legend is currently on Kickstarter and the great thing is that they built a demo game to show off, it has Linux support and it's pretty cool.

Salt and Sanctuary, the stylish 2D action RPG is officially out for Linux & SteamOS, Ethan's 38th port


By Liam Squires-Hand
Salt and Sanctuary is now officially available on SteamOS & Linux and marks Ethan Lee's 38th port to our platform.

Broforce major update released with new bros and more


By Liam Squires-Hand
Broforce have released their 4th of July (7th of July) update and it includes new bros, as well as probably breaking online play even more.

Habitat from Lucasfilm Games, one of the early MMO games is now open source on github


By Liam Squires-Hand
A little bit of gaming history just got the MIT license treatment. Habitat from Lucasfilm Games is now available under the MIT license on github.

Battlestation: Harbinger changing its name due to trademark troubles, new update soon too


By Liam Squires-Hand
I feel bad for the Battlestation: Harbinger developer, as I think it's a pretty nice name but another developer has coined the "Battlestation" term so they have to change their name. They will also be doing a free update soon.

Parkitect updated with new rides, new sounds and more


By Liam Squires-Hand
Parkitect is a very cool Early Access theme park building sim and the latest alpha is now available with Linux support.