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Linux Release List has been updated for October 2016. Fans of console action games have been no doubt delighted by the highly-rated Mad Max port by British Avalanche Studios and Feral Interactive.

At last, the massive update of the Linux Game-Dev DB has been completed today!

Since January 2015, there have been 842 Linux games added to the Trihlav db. As per my rules, visual novels, hidden-object games, early access and poorly performing shovelware has been excluded due to the time constrains. Not all of it, though.

Out of the 842 "well received" games, 721 have been made by different developers. In two years, 1.17 "good" games have been made per studio.

New features have been added to the lists of Linux Games and developers. Most importantly, users can now search / filter both lists.

In addition to GUI update, details of all [recorded] dev studios (url, location, etc) are being gradually updated - if they are available.

Unfortunately it's a time consuming, exhausting task that might take a couple more weeks, or months.

Once completed, I'll start adding games released before 2015... Half-Life, X-com, Civ 5, Dota2. I'm well aware they are missing. I'll try my best to fill them in over the time.

Linux Release List has been updated for September 2016. Preview ("early access") releases aside, September turned out to be unusually weak for PC, Windows and Linux alike.

Linux news have been dominated by Rocket League (surely needs no further introduction), complemented by long promised port of Dawn of War 2 by Feral Interactive.

On the low profile "pixelated" front, tireless bedroom coders have once again covered all genres imaginable.

I had my share of fun with turn-based sci-fi opera Halcyon 6; fans of ultra violent side-scrollers could beat out some brains in Mother Russia Bleeds; and arcade button smashers nuked the shit out of Atom Zombie Smasher.

Late in the month Minor Key (of "Eldricht" and "You Have to Win the Game" fame) made available their latest Slayer Shock, while Wargamming.net (providers of World of Tanks) failed to appeal to single-player crowd with top-down shooter Hybrid Wars.

Honorable mention goes to nerdish Particle Fleet: Emergence by Knuckle Cracker and, well, "stupid simple" ballblazer Clustertruck - "ten seconds of concentrated fun" best suited for TVs and Steam Machines, I guess.

Seemingly there was plenty to choose from this month, although (apart from Rocket League) we have to admit to ourself - none of it is long-lasting re-playable material on Linux.

Linux Release List has been updated for August 2016. What is usually dry month for gaming turned out to be pretty strong for Linux: a new Master of Orion has been released, new Worms, and plenty of well-received low-budget indie titles.

The news have been "dominated" (with a grain of salt) by Master of Orion, though I hesitated (a lot) to give it "a splash" on my site. Grand turn-based strategy is my genre of choice indeed, but in the case of MoO - first I've been waiting for GoG to release Linux build (to no avail), than I got distracted by all the cries of oversimplifications. If the new MoO is anything like Civ 5 in space, why bother?

Worms W.M.D. is the second high profile release of August 2016. It's been struggling for positive reception as well, but nevertheless it's a beauty compared to Hedgewars or (still my favorite in the genre) Scorched Earth.