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Brigador stomps out of Early Access with such beautiful destruction, a must try on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Oh baby! Brigador is one game you cannot afford to miss out on. It has such beautiful design and destruction that I can't help but fall in love with it.

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite

By Liam Dawe,
Ars Technica has written up an article about Valve's Steam Machines and how they seem to have sold less than 500,000 units in around seven months.

Valve announce over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold

By Liam Dawe,
An awesome milestone for such an interesting device! Valve have stated in an update that the Steam Controller has sold over half a million units!

The most popular Linux & SteamOS gaming articles for May 2016, 161 in total

By gamingonlinux,
Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2016, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming!

Steam's latest Hardware Survey is out, shows Linux at 0.84%

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is now available and if you take it at face value it doesn't look so good for Linux. I am remaining positive as always about it.

The Wine Staging Team has released their patch-set for Wine 1.9.11

By sobkas,
Wine Staging 1.9.11 has been released this weekend. This release is a small update containing only a few improvements targeting different applications.

Stellaris patch 1.1 "Clarke" is now available, includes beta UI scaling option

By Liam Dawe,
The first major Stellaris patch 1.1 code-named "Clarke" is now available and brings plenty with it. I'm looking forward to diving back in.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS major patch released, features built-in mod manager

By Liam Dawe,
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has been updated with a rather large patch that brings in a number of new goodies. There were a number of test releases, but they have all come together for an official stable patch.

GOG Connect announced, add certain Steam games to GOG for a limited time

By Liam Dawe,
I was wondering if GOG would ever do something like this and it's really cool to see them finally dip their toes in it. For a limited time using GOG Connect a few Steam games can be redeemed on GOG for fully DRM free builds.

Tumbleweed Express, trains mixed with guns in the wild west now on Steam with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Tumbleweed Express looks like quite a cool action game where you're defending a train from airships and other trains with Borderlands styled graphics.

The Way of Life, a short and interesting single-player experience, released on Steam for free with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
The Way of Life sees you relive different experiences using three characters at different ages. It sounds like a cool idea and it's free so why not give it a go?

Simutrans, the open source transportation simulation game is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Simutrans is a bit of an oldie in the open source gaming world, but it's pretty good and it has now found its way onto Steam.

Life Is Strange is coming to Linux & SteamOS by Feral Interactive

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive have updated their teaser radar to show that Life Is Strange is coming to Linux/SteamOS and Mac. The only official announcement for now is Mac App Store, but it is now confirmed to be coming to Linux.

Salt and Sanctuary, a haunting 2D action RPG looks like it could come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Salt and Sanctuary is a very stylish looking 2D action RPG with haunting visuals and fast paced combat. Looks like Ethan Lee is having a go at porting it.

Rotorcross, an open source multirotor racing simulator has a Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
Apparently Rotorcross is becoming a thing where you race drones and it actually sounds like a pretty cool idea for a game. The code is open source too, but it's built with Unity.

Pathway, an upcoming tactical RPG announced, plans to support Linux

By BTRE,
Robotality’s upcoming game mixes in elements of 1930s pulp adventure with a tactical combat. Players can hope to explore the unknown sometime in 2017.

New set of GPU benchmarks and adventures in OpenGL 4.3

By Samsai,
Quite recently there have been quite a few advancements on the open source side of GPU drivers so I figured it would be the perfect time to talk about these changes and run some updated benchmarks.

Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island Riptide: Definitive Edition released, seem to have hidden Linux versions

By Liam Dawe,
While it doesn't seem Linux/SteamOS is officially supported for Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island Riptide: Definitive Edition they are both playable.

Alien Hunters DLC for XCOM 2 now available along with a big patch on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A little later than I had hoped, but Feral Interactive have released the Alien Hunters DLC for XCOM 2 along with a patch to bring it up to the same level as Windows.

Announcing the beta of our User Stats page

By Liam Dawe,
I am pleased to show off a work-in-progress user statistics page that will form part of our new survey system.