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GOL Cast: Bringing Humanity To New Worlds In Civilization: Beyond Earth

By Samsai, 30 Dec 2014

After a bit of a wait it's finally possible for you to bring your penguins to space and colonize new worlds in the name of Torvalds. But how does Civilization: Beyond Earth fare, what are its strengths and weaknesses? Let's find out.

Project Zomboid Releases A Massive Update, Co-op Play Returns

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2014

Project Zomboid is the fantastic zombie survival game that you can play in single-player, co-op, or online with other survivors. Myself and Samsai have really been getting into it, and a massive update was released.

New Desura Client Available For Linux, Open Source Again

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2014

Finally, Desura has a new client available for Linux. Bad Juju Games haven't officially announced it anywhere on Desura yet, but it is available to download.

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GOG's Installer Encryption Proving to be Difficult for Linux Users

By Samsai, 30 Dec 2014

GOG has begun using encrypted RAR files in their Windows installers for various games to enhance their security. This however has caused problems for some Linux users.

Eerie Snowman Building Adventure Platformer 'Lost Constellation' Available For Download

By flesk, 29 Dec 2014

Lost Constellation is a supplemental game to the upcoming game 'Night in the Woods' by developer Infinite Fall and is available on a pay-what-you-want scheme from Itch.io.

Space Pirates and Zombies 2 reveals The Zombies in a brand new video

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2014

Space Pirates And Zombies 2 is a game I am very excited for, as the first one was good, but number 2 just looks fantastic.

TIMEframe, A Game Played In Slow Motion Plans A Big Update With Linux Support

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2014

TIMEframe was originally created for the Ludum Dare game jam competition by Random Seed games and an updated version has been in development.

The Itch Games Store Are Working On An Open Source Client

By Liam Dawe, 29 Dec 2014

The Itch.io games store has always been nice, but icing on the cake is that they are now creating an open source desktop client in Qt 5.

Prison Architect Alpha 28 - UI Than Ever

By StianTheDark, 28 Dec 2014

Welcome to the wonderful world of Prison Architect, where a new one-week's worth of work (pun from video above) is applied! I noticed there hadn't been an article about PA since Alpha 25, so there's been three alphas between the last post!

Natural Selection 2 FPS Has A Major Update, Fixes Major Linux Crash Bug

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2014

Natural Selection 2 is a great FPS game when it works, and thankfully a major Linux crash bug has finally been fixed.

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Whats Next In Graphics APIs

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2014

Neil Trevett from Nvidia shared a presentation about what's going on in the world of graphics APIs. Presentation included in our post on it.

This War Of Mine Updated With Free New Content

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2014

This War of Mine is one of the best games I've tried for a while, and a big 1.2 update has rolled out with a bunch of new kit for you.

Free Indie Saturday - The Very Organized Thief

By StianTheDark, 27 Dec 2014

First of all, what is "Free Indie Saturday"? A series I'll be trying to do every Saturday about a free indie game! Of course, I'm not an approved writer so it wont be guaranteed ;) If the higher powers feel my work is worth it, maybe it'll change!

Chaos Reborn Turn Based Strategy Now Available In Early Access On Steam

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2014

Chaos Reborn is the brand new game from Julian Gollop, the designer of the original, award-winning XCOM (A game I am a massive fanboy of).

Planetary Annihilation Major Update, Unit Cannon Makes An Appearance

By Liam Dawe, 26 Dec 2014

If there was one major building missing from Planetary Annihilation that was promised a while ago it was the Unit Cannon, and Uber Entertainment have delivered.

Post-Xmas Livestream Up At 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 26 Dec 2014

Santa has come and gone and it's time to get back to business. So let's review our pile of presents and play some Linux games live for some mutual enjoyment.

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Xonotic Is Approaching Version 0.8 With New Features And Maps

By Samsai, 25 Dec 2014

Yesterday a video was published on http://www.xonotic.org which showcased a preview version of the new 0.8 update and all its new features and a couple of new CTF maps.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays From GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Dec 2014

For those of you that celebrate it Merry Christmas, I know not everyone celebrates it, so if you don't we hope if you're on holiday that it's a good one.

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OpenMW Releases 0.34, 1.0 Looks Closer Every Day

By Rutine, 24 Dec 2014

For those of you who still don't know about it, OpenMW is an open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine, the third game in the Elder Scrolls series.