Windlands, a first person grappling hook exploration game now on SteamOS & Linux

Windlands looks like one of the more unique indie games I've seen recently, and the idea of bouncing around with a grappling hook sounds fun.

XCOM 2 is starting to look mighty interesting

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak may come to Linux some day

I'm a big fan of the Homeworld series and since the game is being developed with Unity I really hope it comes to Linux in the near future. Homeworld: DoK is due to be released this 20th January.

SpeedRunners, a competitive action-platform runner has been delayed for Linux

SpeedRunners, a competitive action-platform runner which was originally going to be out for Linux before Christmas has been delayed. It now has no ETA.

Medieval II: Total War Collection coming to Mac and Linux via Steam

Feral Interactive announced today that Medieval II: Total War™ Collection will be released on Steam for both Mac and Linux on January 14th. Developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA for Windows in 2006, Medieval II: Total War has received a wealth of critical praise since for its historical reach and immersive gameplay.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Tested on Linux with some thoughts on the gameplay

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! That has to be one of the wackiest titles I've ever seen, and the developers kindly sent in a key for me to give it a go.

Honestly, it was one I personally wanted to try out for ages, but something always go in the way. I finally sat down, and pushed myself to do it (thanks to the developer for the key!).

Team Fortress 2 updated to fix Linux memory usage

Yesterdays update shows the developers working on Linux performance with this change "Significantly reduced memory usage on Mac and Linux clients". It's good to see they are still paying attention to us.

Latest Steam Beta Client Update Has More Steam Controller Improvements, Linux Fixes

Valve announced a few minutes ago, January 9, 2016, the immediate availability of a new update for its Steam Beta Client for supported operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated, now with nicer sound options for Linux

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is actually a really great game, and we had a lot of fun playing it a while back on a livestream. One thing I've seen people moan about is the sound options on Linux, so it looks like Valve has taken steps to address that.

Oculus Rift VR headset will support Linux after release, looking like it's going to be pricey

I will be keeping an eye on it when they come back with Linux support, as I would like to be wrong on it.

Infinium Strike, an interesting looking strategy and action game comes to Linux this year

Hack on PlayStation 4, itch.io store app, and more open gaming news

Hello, open gaming fans! In this week's edition, we take a look at a hack on PlayStation 4, the itch.io store app, another record for Steam, and more.

Unvanquished Kicks Off 2016 With Yet Another Alpha

The crew working on the open-source Unvanquished game powered by their Daemon Engine announced their Alpha 47 release last weekend.

Unvanquished Alpha 47 as the first monthly release of 2016 brings Breakpad support for having a built-in crash reporting system. Unvanquished Alpha 47 also has a number of bug fixes, a new "Medistation" model, new movement changes for the "human" players, and a variety of other changes.

Unity 5.3 Game Engine Editor Finally Arrives for Linux, Download for Ubuntu

Unity Technologies, the developer of the popular Unity game engine, has announced the immediate availability for download of an updated version of the Unity Editor for Linux software.

Valve's SteamOS Brewmaster 2.59 Beta Update Adds Xbox One Elite Controller Support

Just a few hours ago, Valve pushed a new Beta update the SteamOS Brewmaster (brewmaster_beta) channel, version 2.59, bringing support for new controllers, patching various security issues and updating the Bluetooth stack.

Unity Game Engine updated for Linux, now built on Unity 5.3.1

The open source app for the Itch games store has a major update

It has very quickly filled the void the Desura left in my heart, so great stuff. I check on the github activity regularly and submit bugs that I find, and I do love the bug reporter in the app. If it detects a game won't launch, it will pop up a handy button to submit a bug report with a log directly to github. I find that to be incredibly handy!

Team Fortress 2 Gets Update That Significantly Reduces Memory Usage on Linux

Team Fortress 2, the online multiplayer game developed by Valve with support for all available platforms, including PC, Linux, and Mac OS X, and that's constantly in the top ten titles played every day on Steam, has been updated once more.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Gets Better Arm, Hands and Glove Models

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the most played game on Steam at any given moment, has received a new update and it looks like there are a few Linux improvements.

There is no denying that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive rules Steam right now and it managed to remain in the top most played games even if some really anticipated game shows up. Fallout 4 only managed to remain the first for the first couple of days, but it was quickly taken down by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

PlayStation 4 Linux Hack Now Supports 3D Acceleration, USB Support Coming Soon

We reported on the last days of 2015 that a group of talented hackers that go by the name of fail0verflow managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console to run the Gentoo Linux operating system.

The hack was made possible due to a broken NOP command on the integrated AMD Radeon GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), something that Sony might not be able to fix anytime soon.

Feel like fragging? You can do that in your browser with QuakeJS

Here's an interesting thing I stumbled upon while I was looking up ioquake3 stuff. QuakeJS is a port of the ioquake3 engine to Javascript and WebGL and it plays original Quake 3 maps.

Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Start, But Linux Support Is Still Halted

Oculus Rift pre-orders opened up this morning for $599 USD and an anticipated ship date of April. However, the Facebook-owned company isn't yet back to providing Linux support.

With today's pre-order launch, I was curious to see whether they would comment on restoring Linux (and OS X) support, but they have not. Oculus suspended Linux and OS X support last year in order to focus on their Windows support with no timeline for when they planned to come back to providing Linux support. However, now that everything is ready to go, they apparently aren't yet ready to jump back into the VR scene for Linux gamers. There's also nothing new with regards to Linux via the Oculus developer area.