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Cities: Skylines City Builder Releases Today, Some Thoughts After Playing It


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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.

The Entroware 'Proteus' Gaming Laptop, Reviewed For Linux


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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.

Nightside Is That RTS Game I’ve Been Waiting For On Linux


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

Outland, A Fast-paced, Dynamic Platformer Now Available On Linux


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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 Free & Open Source Racer New Version


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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 New DLC Arriving On March 24


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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.

Shadow Of Mordor Wins GDC Game Of The Year, Linux Version Due This Spring


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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!

Evoland, A Really Interesting Adventure RPG Now Working On Linux


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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, A Turn-based, Isometric, Classic Strategy Game Built With Godot


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

Steam Hardware Survey For February 2015


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

Tell Blizzard You Want Linux Support In Their Games


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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 PhysX Source Code Now Available Free On GitHub


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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".

Contagion, Cooperative Survival Horror FPS Is Still Planned For Linux


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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.

Gabe Newell Talks Steam, Vulkan With Support From Blizzard, Source 2 And More


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

Rex Rocket, A Slick Looking Retro Action Platformer Now Available On Linux


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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.

Source 2 Will Be Completely Free To Use


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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.

Shelter 2, An Open World Adventure Game Looks Like It Will Get A Day 1 Linux Release


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Shelter 2, a really interesting looking open world adventure game has announced that Linux should see a day 1 release now.

Dying Light Massive Patch Due 10th of March, And New DLC


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Dying Light is due to get a massive patch next week which should have the performance fixes we have been waiting on, a load of free content, and a new DLC too.

It's The Time For Friday Livestream! Join In At 6 PM UTC!


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Hey hey hey, it's Friday again which means that it's time to consume bandwidth by livestreaming Linux gaming to you around the world. So let's do just that!

The Wine Development Release 1.7.38 Is Now Available


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Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.38 bringing many new features and as many as 57 bugfixes.