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REGoth Engine, an open source reimplentation for the game 'Gothic'


By Liam Squires-Hand
REGoth Engine was pointed out in the forum, as it's another lovely open source reimplentation and this time it's for the classic game 'Gothic'.

The Other 99 action and survival game release delayed until August


By Liam Squires-Hand
Always sad when a game sees a delay, but hopefully it will be worth it as The Other 99 actually looks rather good.

Double Fine is doubling the good news, as there is a discounted bundle of their games on Steam


By -Daniel-Palacio-
Definitely for today, Double Fine will get a lot of attention, because, aside from releasing the Linux port of the remastered version of Day of the Tentacle, they're offering a 52% discount for the whole Double Fine Bundle on Steam.

Major new release of open source livestreaming kit 'OBS Studio' fixes Linux window capture issues


By Liam Squires-Hand
OBS Studio is a fantastic bit of open source software for livestreamers, but the Linux version has been plagued with crashing often when capturing a window—no more!

Day of the Tentacle Now Available On Linux


By Cheeseness
The remastered edition of the classic point and click adventure game Day of the Tentacle is now available on Linux, thanks to the porting efforts of GOL editor Cheeseness.

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.