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The Wine Development Release 1.9.12 Is Now Available


By sobkas
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.12 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

The Stream of the Friday starts yet again at 5 PM UTC!


By Samsai
Ah, I do love me some Fridays and, as per usual, we celebrate this great weekday with another video stream of a live nature. Games will be played, bad jokes be made and fun might be had. Just in case that happens, you better strap yourself in and fire up your video player.

Valve has a problem brewing with user reviews and bots


By Liam Squires-Hand
Spotted by SteamSpy, it seems Valve is having an issue on Steam with bots giving out good reviews of games.

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is having a free weekend and big sale on Steam


By Liam Squires-Hand
If you have passed up on Wasteland 2: Director's Cut before you may want to take a look now, as it's having a free weekend on Steam.

Something for the weekend? XCOM 2 is currently on a tasty sale


By Liam Squires-Hand
If you're in the market to pick up something for the weekend, be sure not to miss out on the excellent XCOM 2. It's currently 33% off for the weekend on Steam, cracking deal that is!

Starbound developer comments on Linux support and their SteamOS icon


By Liam Squires-Hand
Starbound is a really cool game that has supported Linux for quite some time, but they had their SteamOS icon removed on Steam some time ago. The developer is doing a reddit AMA so I decided to pop two questions that got nice answers.

Torment: Tides of Numenera delayed until 2017, partnering with a publisher


By Liam Squires-Hand
Torment: Tides of Numenera the next CRPG from inXile entertainment has been delayed until 2017 and they have also partnered with a publisher.

Yooka-Laylee, the open-world platformer coming to Linux has a new trailer, release delayed


By Liam Squires-Hand
Yooka-Laylee, from the "key creative talent" behind Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country has a new trailer. The release has also been delayed until 2017.

OpenKeeper, another open source game engine, this time for Dungeon Keeper II


By Liam Squires-Hand
I really do love open source game engines. Keeping older titles alive on new platforms and bringing bug fixes with them. This time Dungeon Keeper II gets the treatment.

The slides from Vulkan DevDay UK are now on Youtube with audio


By Liam Squires-Hand
While Khronos already put up the actual slides from Vulkan DevDay UK we didn't have any audio or video, now we do. Much nicer than reading slides by themselves.

Steam Dev Days is returning this October


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve have announced that they will be running another Steam Dev Days event this October in Seattle, USA.

HITMAN looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
This is one series I had hoped we would get and it looks like we will be. HITMAN (the new 2016 version) looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux.

We are now importing sales from Steam to our Sales Page


By Liam Squires-Hand
It may have taken me all evening to do, but that's an evening well spent. The Sales Page will now be importing sales from Steam.

Minecraft 1.10 released, adds Polar Bears and more


By Liam Squires-Hand
Minecraft is still going at a slow pace. Minecraft 1.10 has just been released which includes new blocks and mobs.

Hybrid Beasts adds Linux support for its beta


By BTRE
The cutesy artillery game has added Linux support in its ongoing beta test. Development apparently still has a ways to go which makes this early support extra nice.

Looks like the Linux version of Beyond Flesh and Blood is postponed for a while


By BTRE
Fans of shooting stuff up with mechs will have to wait to play this action game on Linux. The developer has explained why this Early Access game isn’t yet ready for penguin enjoyment.

Star Vikings, a new puzzle and RPG title from the Chroma Squad developers announced


By Liam Squires-Hand
Star Vikings is a new casual puzzle/RPG title from the developers who gave us Chroma Squad. It actually looks pretty slick from the trailer.

Blacksea Odyssey is now fully released, go harpoon something and rip it apart


By Liam Squires-Hand
Blacksea Odyssey is a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot'em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. I've played it myself a number of times and I think it's quality fun.

The GOG summer sale has begun, tons on sale, get buying


By Liam Squires-Hand
It's official, now it's summer. We have the GOG summer sale that has officially begun and masses of games are discounted.

Take a look at the new world being made for Albion Online, the Linux MMO


By Liam Squires-Hand
Albion Online is a pretty great start for a Linux-native MMO, but one of the problems has been the rather plain looking map. The developers are working on a bigger and more varied map and did a video to highlight the work.