Latest News - Page: 1113

In a sad turn of events, but not exactly surprising, the President of Blizzard responded to the petition calling for Blizzard to support Linux, the answer is obvious, but what's sad is the response from the petition creator.

That's a bloody huge milestone. We all know quality over quantity, but with 1000+ games now on Steam for Linux, there has to be something for everyone!

Another new game, and another new set of issues for Linux gamers to deal with! We are the lucky bunch aren't we!

Hooray for Techland! Dying Light is finally playable on Linux, so you can join us in having some cake. It's not perfect, but far far better! (UPDATED)

Cities: Skylines is our answer to not having Sim City on Linux, and it’s time for us to take a look at this new city building sim.

Entroware is a UK-based startup aiming their sights at the Linux market, and we have been sent the “Proteus” gaming laptop to give our thoughts on.

I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to the developer of Nightside, and testing out a Linux build. My early thoughts are very good!

A little late on this, sorry. Outland is a beautiful looking action platformer where you use the powers of light and dark to save the world!

H-Craft Championship is a futuristic racer that's free and open source, and the developers kindly let us know about a new version.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is to gain another DLC that sounds awesome! In Claptastic Voyage you will enter the mind of Claptrap! They will also release a Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2.

After the influx of news recently you will already know that Shadow of Mordor is heading to Linux thanks to Feral Interactive, and the game is so good it has managed to win the GDC Game of the Year award!

We held off on covering Evoland as their Steam release for Linux didn't work until now, but we got in touch with the developers and they said they have fixed it! Evoland is very interesting for the mechanics of unlocking new gameplay systems and graphical upgrades as you progress.

Tanks Of Freedom is an open source (MIT License) isometric strategy game, originally started for the Global Game Jam 2015.

Here's the Steam Hardware survey results for February 2015 with one interesting difference from the past surveys.

I have been hesitant to cover things like petitions and forum posts in the past, especially for Blizzard, but now seems like the best time to really get them to listen to us.

Nvidia has now put up the PhysX SDK on github for everyone to sink their teeth into, like with Unreal Engine it does require you agree to their EULA though, so it's not "free software".

I managed to get hold of the Contagion developers, and they confirmed the Linux port is still planned! We haven’t heard from them about it since June last year, so it’s good to see it hasn't been forgotten.

MaximumPCMag managed to interview Gabe Newell of Valve, and he talks a lot about some very interesting things.

Rex Rocket comes from the mind of Castle Pixel, LLC. and the porting skills of Ethan Lee (flibitijibibo), and it’s available on Linux now. Inspired by the retro glory days of 8-bit games, Rex Rocket is a traditional 2D platformer brought into the 21st century.

More news on Source 2 has been circling around, and the great news is that it will be completely free to use, but it does have one little stipulation.