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An update on Insurgency: Sandstorm, Day of Infamy and competitive play for Insurgency

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

Insurgency is supposed to be getting competitive features for the online play, but their UI is holding them up. They have written up a post to explain it and they talk about their new games Day of Infamy and Insurgency: Sandstorm too.

Game porter Ethan Lee on packaging games for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2016

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Game porter Ethan Lee has written up a post aimed at helping developers package their games up for Linux.

Here's my own Linux OpenGL vs Vulkan test for Dota 2, not much difference for me

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2016

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I decided to run some of my own tests in Dota 2 to see what kind of difference I am actually seeing, the results are surprising.

Deep Silver & Techland are not supporting Dead Island Definitive Edition on Linux, at all

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2016

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I was surprised to see Dead Island: Definitive Edition (and Riptide) released on Linux since Deep Silver claimed before hand it wouldn't be. After a small delay they did release it, but don't plan to support it.

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A new benchmark video shows Dota 2 with Vulkan performing better on Windows than Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2016

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This is sad to see. A new benchmark video for Windows and Linux using Dota 2 actually shows Windows doing quite a lot better than Linux.

Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2016

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According to PCWorld who spoke with Chris Sutphen, the senior marketing manager at Alienware, Dell are pushing out two new Steam Machine models.

Things I feel Valve need to address to help SteamOS really be something fantastic

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jun 2016

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Valve have a lot of work to do to bring SteamOS up to full speed and actually show that they regard it as an important platform. And it has to be not just important to them, but be truly useful to us.

Valve has a problem brewing with user reviews and bots

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jun 2016

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Spotted by SteamSpy, it seems Valve is having an issue on Steam with bots giving out good reviews of games.

Starbound developer comments on Linux support and their SteamOS icon

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jun 2016

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Starbound is a really cool game that has supported Linux for quite some time, but they had their SteamOS icon removed on Steam some time ago. The developer is doing a reddit AMA so I decided to pop two questions that got nice answers.

Volition say it's too early to tell if Agents of Mayhem will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2016

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Volition, the developer of Saints Row IV is working on a new game called Agents of Mayhem. A GOL supporter asked me to get in touch with them about a Linux version, so I did.

Like getting scared? Some Horror games you have to check out on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jun 2016

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So you like to be afraid? You like to soil your pants? Well then, here's a few must-have titles to try on Linux & SteamOS.

8 out of the 10 current most popular Steam games support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jun 2016

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What a time to be alive and be a Linux gamer! Not too long ago I would have though this would have been impossible.

What have you been playing on Linux recently and what do you think about it?

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2016

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Today GOL asks: what have you been playing on Linux, and what do you think about it? So many games, so little time!

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

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

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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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

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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.

Announcing the beta of our User Stats page

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2016

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

Lego Minifigures Online shutting down, say goodbye to our first official Lego game

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2016

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Our first official Lego game Lego Minifigures Online was released last summer and it really wasn't all that good, it seems it's now shutting down.

Editorial: Valve have not abandoned SteamOS or Linux, things are looking pretty good

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2016

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Something I keep seeing repeated in our comments, forum and across other sites is people believing Valve have somehow failed already and are abandoning SteamOS. That's far from the truth of the matter.

Want to make Terraria on Linux faster? FNA creator Ethan Lee has a script to help with that

By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2016

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Terraria on Linux uses Ethan Lee's FNA project, but the most recent update did not update FNA which Ethan has pointed out is a bit sad. Thankfully, he has a script to do it for you.

Rocket League is still coming to Linux, but there is no release date

By Liam Dawe, 26 May 2016

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Rocket League is still coming to Linux a developer has confirmed on reddit, but they have no idea when by the looks of it.

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