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Book of Demons no longer getting a native Linux port, developer plans on 'supporting' Steam Play (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2018

Book of Demons, a dungeon crawling hack and slash with deckbuilding will no longer get a native Linux port. Steam Play is part of the reason. UPDATED.

The Steam for Linux limited beta was six years ago tomorrow, where's the cake?

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2018

Six years ago tomorrow (yes really!) Valve announced the Steam for Linux beta for a limited amount of interested gamers.

Lutris game manager release 0.4.22 is out to further refine the experience

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2018

For those who need a hand managing Linux games across Steam, Wine, DXVK and so on. Lutris is here to help and a new release is now available.

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DXVK 0.91 is out to reduce CPU overhead slightly and improve some games

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2018

DXVK continues to progress helping Linux fans play some of their favourite Windows only games with the 0.91 release now available.

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Wine

Nightdive are having issues with the Wine-bundled Linux build of System Shock 2

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2018

Nightdive have responded to reports of users being unable to play their Wine-bundled Linux build of System Shock 2.

Valve have pushed out another Steam Play update with the 3.16-4 beta including corefonts support

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2018

Another exciting set of changes for Valve's new Steam Play system. This time the Proton beta 3.16-4 includes some really good stuff.

No Brakes Games have discontinued Linux support for Human: Fall Flat

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2018

Some sad news to wake up to, as No Brakes Games have discontinued Linux support for Human: Fall Flat.

Valve gave an update on the major SOULCALIBUR VI issues with Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 27 Oct 2018

It seems users trying out SOULCALIBUR VI in Steam Play ended up with a major issues in both Linux and Windows due to a bug in Steam Play's Proton. Valve have now given out a statement.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux, 25 Oct 2018

This is your reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Valve just put out another (smaller) Steam Play beta version

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2018

Valve are moving quickly based on feedback during the beta period, with Steam Play's Proton now having a 3.16-3 beta available.

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Beta

Proton beta 3.16-2 is out for Valve's Steam Play system

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2018

Valve are continuing to polish the next version of Steam Play's Proton with an update to the beta channel.

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Beta

Today, Linux game porter Ethan Lee begins officially working on Steam Play's Proton

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2018

A small update for those interested in keeping up with the news surrounding Steam Play and Proton development.

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Feral show off Total War: WARHAMMER II on Linux, along with confirming more Linux ports and a Vulkan teaser

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2018

Feral Interactive just put up a YouTube video to show off Total War: WARHAMMER II running on Linux, it's looking good and they confirmed again their future Linux plans.

Valve have updated Steam Play with the 3.16-1 beta based on Wine 3.16 and new DXVK

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2018

Valve are moving fast with Steam Play updates! Just today they've released the Steam Play 3.16-1 beta which is a pretty big deal.

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Valve

Hot on the heels of the latest release of the Vulkan API, DXVK 0.90 is now out with Stream Output support

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2018

DXVK, the awesome Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation that's used in Wine and Steam Play's Proton has just put out version 0.90 after the latest release of the Vulkan API.

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Wine

The recent Steam Play beta is now out for everyone, plus a minor beta update

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2018

Valve continue pushing ahead with improvements to their Steam Play system with the most recent beta now being out for everyone.

According to Kotaku, Microsoft is close to buying Obsidian

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2018

In what could be a blow to Linux gamers who are fans of Obsidian RPGs, Microsoft is apparently close to acquiring the studio.

Sunday Mag: Linux gaming news odds and ends and a quick look at what’s on sale

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2018

Another week has flown by and it’s been a pretty good one, here’s a roundup of some odds and ends that we didn’t fit in this week plus a quick look over some good deals.

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The Steam Play whitelist just had a large update including The Witness and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct 2018

Early this morning Valve officially rolled out a big update to the Steam Play whitelist, which indicates Windows games that work well with Steam Play's Proton.