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The Most Popular Linux Gaming Articles For August 2014

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Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for August 2014, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux Gaming! Sorted from lowest to highest to make sure you don't miss the smaller news stories. Also if you wish to keep track of these overview posts you can with our Overview RSS.

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GOL Cast: Tower Defence, FPS Style in Sanctum 2 - Views: 2,120
Sanctum 2 got released officially for Linux after being in beta for quite a while. So, it's our job to show you how well it runs and how good the actual game is. Time to protect some Cores!


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Spellforce 3 Announced For Linux - Views: 2,181
Thanks to a couple of German news site we have learnt today that Spellforce 3 will be heading to Linux. Not surprising is that our new friends at Nordic Games are the publisher.


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GOL World Tour: Gaming From Argentina - Views: 2,188
The GOL World Tour will start in Argentina and stop off at different countries on a regular basis, looking at Linux developers and their games, throwing in a bit of culture and history too.


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Metro 2033 Redux For Linux Looks Closer To Reality - Views: 2,398
Metro 2033 Redux is confirmed for Linux, but the actual release date isn't certain yet. Luckily thanks as usual to the excellent SteamDB it looks like it's coming sooner rather than later.


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Major Steam Client Update Released - Views: 2,437
Valve are doing their thing again and pushing out a pretty damn big update to the Steam client with a refreshed look and some nifty new features.


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Company of Heroes 2 Looks Like It Is Heading To Linux - Views: 2,638
Company of Heroes 2 a well loved real time strategy game from Relic Entertainment and SEGA looks like it is heading to Linux thanks to information taking from the excellent SteamDB website.


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DayZ Looks Like It Will Come To Linux In Future - Views: 2,726
DayZ is the massively popular open world zombie survival game that re-started the genre for a lot of people, and it looks like the developer wants to bring it to Linux.


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The Steam Controller: Not Everyone Gets It - Views: 3,166
Something I've noticed about the Steam controller is not very many gamers understand why it has trackpads and why this may be superior in some use cases, so here's a simple breakdown of my thoughts.


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GOG Has More Linux Games Added To Their Collection - Views: 3,229
GOG has been building up their library quicker and quicker, and thankfully some recent games added are on Linux now too. Come take a look!


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Apparently Valve Have Secretly Launched Source 2 - Views: 3,482
Valve are devils aren't they! They have recently updated Dota 2 to include new Workshop tools that seem to be based on Source 2!


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Steam Hardware Survey For July 2014, Linux Dips - Views: 3,604
Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.


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OpenGL 4.5 Announced, Work Started On Next Generation OpenGL - Views: 3,752
The Khronos Group who oversee OpenGL development have announced not only OpenGL 4.5, but they are also encouraging others to come forward to join them in building the next generation of OpenGL.


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The Witcher 3 For Linux Remains Officially Unconfirmed - Views: 3,761
The Witcher 3 for Linux remains officially unconfirmed now even after the front page of Steam itself advertised it as coming to SteamOS.


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The Metro Redux FPS Games Will Require OpenGL 4 On Linux - Views: 4,089
In an interview with eurogamer Oles Shishkovstov the chief technical officer of 4A Games made some remarks about the Linux version of the new Metro FPS games.


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Metro Redux FPS Games Have A New Overview Video, On Linux Later This Year - Views: 4,174
I wasn't really that excited when I heard about the Metro FPS games being revamped, but after watching this I am. Not to mention having a revamp of the first game available on Linux too.

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GoCorinthians Sep 1, 2014
Witcher - DayZ - Company of heroes...daaaaaaaamn...hyped
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