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Invisible. Inc: Contingency Plan DLC Released, Offers Up More Of Everything

By Liam Dawe,
Invisible. Inc was already a pretty great strategy game, and now it's even bigger thanks to the first DLC named Invisible. Inc: Contingency Plan.

My Thoughts On SteamOS After Some Time With It

By Liam Dawe,
Now that I have a Steam Machine of my own built, and SteamOS as the only operating system on it I can give you some thoughts on it.

FortressCraft Evolved exits early access, SteamOS & Linux now fully supported, but buggy

By Liam Dawe,
FortressCraft Evolved has been on Linux for a while, but the official release now supports us properly. It was certainly inspired by the style of Minecraft, but it's a whole 'nother game.

The Last Federation Gets A New Expansion, The Lost Technologies

By Samsai,
The Last Federation, a strategy game about creating an interplanetary federation, has received its second expansion which brings new technologies and a new game mode.

StarBreak, A Co-op Roguelike MMO Action Platformer Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
StarBreak has somewhat captured my interest, as we don't have many good MMO games, and even an MMO platformer like this looks pretty sweet.

Space RTS 'Conflicks' Out Of Early Access And Released For Linux, Has Multiplayer Demo

By flesk,
Sang-Froid Developer Artifice Studios has released their outlandish space RTS 'Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles' on Steam, and a multiplayer demo is also available for Linux.

Age of Fear: The Undead King & Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord Now On SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The developers themselves emailed both Age of Fear: The Undead King & Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord in for me to take a look at. They told me the games don't look like much, but offer a lot, and they were right.

Hyperdrive Massacre, A Local Multiplayer Frag-fest Now On SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you like your silly arcade games for when friends come around then Hyperdrive Massacre might just be what you need. Fancy flying around a space-car and blowing up others? This is the game for you.

Major Engine & Content Update To The MMO War Thunder

By Liam Dawe,
War Thunder is a pretty popular MMO that's for sure, and it had a lot of people excited when it came to Linux. It has recently been updated with some big new stuff.

RollerCoaster Tycoon World Delayed Until 2016

By Liam Dawe,
RollerCoaster Tycoon World has officially be delayed until 2016 to give the developers some more time to fix up performance and features to a higher level.

Ars Technica Benchmarks Show Windows 10 Beating SteamOS Performance

By Liam Dawe,
Ars Technica recently ran a few Windows vs SteamOS benchmarks, and it shows what we here already know: A lot of ports have worse performance on SteamOS & Linux.

Sword Coast Legends Campaign Review

By Keyrock,
For the purposes of this review I will be concentrating fully on the single player campaign. I did have a quick peek at the DM tools but found them lacking for creating anything other than simple dungeon crawls or completely linear adventures.

Origin PC Is No Longer Doing A SteamOS Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
gameinformer has reported that Origin PC has decided against using SteamOS for what was going to be their Steam Machine, so time to stop calling it a Steam Machine.

Cold And Dark Livestream Starting At 6 PM UTC

By Samsai,
Winter is soon coming, if global warming allows that is. And what would be more fitting than playing some cold and dark games on a cold and dark day? That's exactly what we will do today!

Football Manager 2016 Released For Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Football fans rejoice! We have a day one release of Football Manager 2016 for Linux & SteamOS. It's a very popular game series, and great to see another on Linux.

How-to: Minecraft with the Steam Controller on Linux desktop and SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
I wanted to see how easy it was to not only get Minecraft working with the Steam Controller on Ubuntu, but to also see if I could get it all on my Steam Machine, and as it turns out most of it is easy enough.

Legends Of Eisenwald Linux Port Put On Hold, Developers Asking For Help To Port It

By Liam Dawe,
Legends of Eisenwald an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements that was funded on Kickstarter. They wanted to do a Linux release, but they didn't hit the goal to do it right away, and now due to finances it's on hold.

Torment: Tides Of Numenera Alpha Gameplay, Delayed Until 2016

By Liam Dawe,
Torment: Tides of Numenera is an upcoming crowdfunded RPG from veteran developers inXile Entertainment set in the Numenera universe, and a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment.

Sublevel Zero, A First-person Roguelike Six-degree-of-freedom Shooter Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Sublevel Zero is a great looking and well received first-person roguelike six-degree-of-freedom shooter (wow, what a mouthful!).

My Own Thoughts On The Steam Controller, Flawed, But Fun

By Liam Dawe,
I honestly can’t remember the last time I was this excited about any hardware. It may only be a gamepad, but the Steam Controller is so very different it’s refreshing.