Best Linux Games Podcast

This week: an in-depth chronicle of the VR WARS; PLUS: the revelation of a technology purchase that will leave you SHOCKED and HORRIFIED; FOLLOWED BY: 6 deals (5 of which are among our favorite linux games of the last 2 years, and all at STEEEEEEEP discounts)... AND MOAR MOAR MOAR! www.bestlinuxgames.com

This week, we rant about CSGO, then reveal our plans for the HTC Vive and LinuxFest Northwest before taking a look at the futuristic air-hockey-meets tennis of "Gyrodisc Super League," go "Beyond Dimensions," and finally hit the course with "Intergalactic Road Warrirors." All of which is rounded out by 4 excellent deals you don't want to miss.

Superhot superhot superhot super... TREE DUDE... Yes, in this week's exciting episode we review SUPERHOT, the time-shifting first person virtual reality slaughter-festival of love. In the same vein, we talk about the HTC Vive SteamVR system which is now available for pre-order. All this, plus four awesome Tree Dude! I mean, deals! SUPERHOT SUPERHOT SUPERHOT www.bestlinuxgames.com

In this exciting episode, we review the austere and beautiful "Firewatch" (SPOILER FREE), and talk about "Hitman Go." We're having problems with our website, but our soundcloud pages are still up and running, so get yer linux gaming on!

Kind of a PEDESTRIAN episode this week; we rant about the Vulkan API (and how everyone might be misreading its overall importance), cover a few new and noteworthy titles, and talk some serious "Firewatch." Look for a full review next week!

Greetings, Commander: We're head over heels in love with XCOM2 (listen to our full review to see just how much we love this fucking game), but also: New and Noteworthy: Firewatch, "Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders," plus two excellent deals.

XCOM2: all over your face! The good, the bad, and the fugly of this long-awaited sequel (which launched with Linux support)! Plus: 3 great deals from Steam's "Lunar New Year Sale!"

FINALLY, we bring you the ROGUE'S GALLERY: the 5 best rogue-like, rogue-esque, rogue-rogue-gone-rogue like 'girls gone wild'-rogue rogue-like games currently available for Linux. PLUS: three new and noteworthy titles. Your favorite game didn't make the list?: THEN START AGAIN. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA... ha(!)... ROGUES! Oh, and go watch the ultimate showdown... please, for the love of God... I WONDER... WHO IT WILL BE!?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV4dtB5E134

In spite of getting CRUSHED by my workload covering the AVN Expo (the porn cojn) here in Vegas, we offer you a huge episode covering some of the best and easiest to use tools to build games on (and for) the gnu/linux OS at FOSS with the "free" as in "beer" this time. PLUS, how to get one of the commercial offerings at a super discount fledgling devs will want to snatch before it's too late! -Leadwerks -Stencyl IDE: www.stencyl.com -Blender -Silo 2: http://store.steampowered.com/app/100400/ -Spriter Pro: http://store.steampowered.com/app/332360/ -Unity Editor For Linux: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/08/26/unity-comes-to-linux-experimental-build-now-available/ -AppGameKit: http://store.steampowered.com/app/325180/ -Blender 3d: https://www.blender.org/

This week, we have an extended "Badass Games I'm Playing" episode of the podcast featuring the AWESOME multiplaying madness that is "Zombie Grinder," the INSANE surrealism of "Not A Hero," and several other titles. PLUS: 3 great deals you don't want to miss!

This week, we hit up five of the best games that we think we didn't talk enough about in 2015; no super deals, no hype or hard sell, just pure gaming excellence for GNU/Linux that you might have missed. "Galak-Z," "The Magic Circle," hell, we got something for everyone (we are including "Universe Sandbox2," after all, lol)... These titles, plus two other excellent must-plays of 2015.

Utilizing the very last shreds of our sanity, we ring in the new year with YET ANOTHER absurdly humongous episode, this time recorded for you on New Year's morning, 2016. We dissect the tick tock and technical details behind the Steam Store's Christmas Day Downtime, going from Valve's official statement rel New Year's Eve. We take a look at some exciting new and noteworthy titles (the absurdly imaginative "Grow Home," the asphalt and crowbar biker romp of "Road Redemption," "Vagante," and "Blues & Bullets Episode I"), and also take a moment to recognize one of the only true versus-style fighting games avail for Linux ("Skullgirls"), and cap it all off with 13 choice deals for the completely depraved, as-yet-still-unsatisfied game gluttons out there wandering the Steam Winter Sale. Oh, and skookie loses his entire fucking mind. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

In this Christmas Day episode (and our last before the New Year), we announce our Ten Best Games for Linux of 2015, our BLGP Game of the Year, explore the cultural significance of videogames (and why they matter as an artistic medium), and love-rant about "Saints Row IV" finally being (expertly) ported to Linux. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year; 2016, here we come!

In this, our SIXTIETH episode (and last live-recorded before the end of 2015), we rant enthusiastically about a title that could finally claim the mantle of the greatest pirate-themed action game of all-time (Vendetta, Curse of Raven's Cry"), and cover a huge selection of new and noteworthy games ("Gabe Newell Simulator," "Commander Cool 2," etc.). Happy 2015! www.bestlinuxgames.com

This week, we take a look at two pc assembly tools: pcpartpicker.com, and the phoronix-test-suite. Plus, we get all fractal on your ass with xaos, and round out the show with 3 really good deals. www.bestlinuxgames.com Oh and to see skookie's build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/skookiesprite/builds/#view=b4LD4D

This week, we finally get around to reviewing one of our favorite new titles, "Hard West," which is basically the "XCOM of the OLE' WEST!!!" We also talk some heavy metal-meets-puzzle-fighter-meets-FTL-meets-steam-punk (OF THE OLE WEST!, jk) in "Ironcast," and lament technical problems with "Steel Rain," and the Valve darling, "Bound By Flame." All this, plus "PLAGUE INC." in multiplayer!

We wrap up our coverage of the steam autumn 2015 sale with some more of our favorite deals for Linux.

Our Black Friday 2015 coverage of the Steam Autumn Sale begins! A Crazy Episode Featuring no less than 40+ of THE BEST GAMES FOR LINUX that you can get for ROCK BOTTOM PRICES! From "Descent Underground," to "Cities Skylines," there's ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE in this mad blowout. Check back on Sat, Sun, and Monday for our coverage of specific tiers of deals. Gobble gobble, mofos!

This week, we cover lots of games we've been giving short shrift to (while playing the hell out of them): "BROFORCE," "KINGDOM," and "GALAK-Z" among them. Plus we take a look at "Hard West" (think X-COM meets "Red Dead Redemption"), "Mayan Death Robots," and as usual, a bevy of excellent deals.

In our FRIDAY THE 13th EPISODE: We revisit DISTANCE, complain about COUNTERSTRIKE GO, Take a look at STEEL STRIDER, and feature SIX Awesome deals. Jump in with both feet, linux monkeys!