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Where Kerbals Fear To Tread, Kerbal Space Program 0.24 Out Now

By neffo,
Budget caps to blow, reputations to ruin and missions to fail have now come to career mode in the fantastic sandbox space simulator from Squad.

Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative Now On Steam For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A big Portal 2 mod is now for sale on Steam for Linux promising to expand the game rather a lot with new content. Complete with new characters and voice acting.

SteamOS Update 123 Pushed To Alchemist Beta

By n30p1r4t3,
Valve's SteamOS has been updates again and here's the low down on SteamOS. Now with less reboots needed!

Open Source FPS/RTS Hybrid Unvanquished Alpha 29 Released

By Liam Dawe,
The great looking Unvanquished has once again pushed out a major alpha bump to the game bringing it that step closer to a more stable and feature filled game.

Battlepaths RPG Now On Linux, And We Take A Look

By Liam Dawe,
Battlepaths an interesting little 2D RPG has recently been ported to Linux, and we take a look to make sure you know if it's any good.

Get Your Dancing Shoes On, Crypt Of The Necrodancer Comes To Linux Soon

By Liam Dawe,
The excellent and frustrating Crypt of the Necrodancer comes to Steam Early Access on the 30th of July, and comes complete with a Linux version.

Darkwood Release Date For Linux & Interactive Trailer!

By Liam Dawe,
Darkwood is a dark survival game that blends a few different types of games together, and originally Linux was a delayed release, but they actually delayed their own release so that Linux is now a day 1 release. They have now finally given an Early Access release date with a fancy interactive trailer.

Epic Games Helps Blender By Becoming A Sponsor

By Liam Dawe,
Epic Games are starting to become real champions for us with porting Unreal Engine and bringing the new Unreal Tournament to us, but now they are also sponsoring the Blender project with funds too.

Open Source Morrowind Engine OpenMW 0.31.0 Released

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest OpenMW has been released which pushed the engine even further to allow us Linux gamers to play the excellent Morrowind natively.

Open Source UFO: Alien Invasion 2.5 Released

By Guest,
After more than two years of development, the team behind UFO: Alien Invasion has finally released a new stable version of their open source tactics game.

Ground Pounders Turn Based Strategy Now Officially Out For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Ground Pounders is the next game from the developers behind the Sword of the Stars series, and promises some heated turn based action. It's now out of Early Access and is fully available for Linux.

The Nightmare Cooperative Turn Based Roguelike Released For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Nightmare Cooperative classes itself as a turn based strategic roguelike (I wish more developers used Procedural Death Labyrinth) that looks crisp, but is it any good? Read on to find out.

Vote For GOG To Make Galaxy Open Source

By FutureSuture,
Galaxy will launch this year, so a number of folks in GOG's community have suggested that it should be open source. A list of reasons speak for this, but what do you think?

Simple Screen Recorder Updated, Recording & Live Streaming Made Easy On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another of our favourite recording and live streaming applications on Linux has recently been updated, and it's time to give you a little run down on it.

Minecraft Gains Massive Performance Improvements With New Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
If there's one thing Minecraft needs it's better performance amongst a lot of other things. Thankfully they have been working on it, and it's already showing.

Live Streaming On Linux, Now With OBS Studio

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio is a rewrite of the OBS recording and live streaming software that is currently in the early stages, but it's already very useful. It's a popular bit of kit a lot of Windows gamers use to stream their games and the rewrite OBS Studio works on Linux.

Halfway, The Excellent Looking Strategy Game Release Date Announced

By Liam Dawe,
Exciting news readers! Halfway the beautiful looking science fiction space strategy game is going to be released this month, and they have a shiny website for the game now.

Postal 2 Linux Updates Are Now Up In The Air

By Liam Dawe,
Sadly the big updates for Postal 2 for Linux may be a long way behind the Windows updates as Ryan "Icculus" Gordon their usual porter has now passed on their work. So, they need a new developer to help out it seems.

Torchlight & Torchlight II Look Set For Linux & Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Morning! We begin today with some big news folks. It looks like both Torchlight & Torchlight II are due to be released on Steam for Linux.

BANG BANG BANG! Released With Linux Support

By Cheeseness,
Western shootout themed party game BANG BANG BANG! from indie developer Sophie Houlden is now available for Linux.