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Nuclear Dawn FPS/RTS hybrid updated, some important fixes for Linux included

By Liam Dawe,
10
Yes, Nuclear Dawn is still alive and still being updated. I'm actually shocked, but impressed at this. The new version will make the Linux and Mac versions a bit better too.
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Deep Silver & Techland are not supporting Dead Island Definitive Edition on Linux, at all

By Liam Dawe,
55
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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This War of Mine - The Little Ones DLC released, adds in children to this war-torn survival game

By Liam Dawe,
2
Probably one of the bleakest DLC around, This War of Mine - The Little Ones DLC is a big expansion to the depressing (but good) survival game This War of Mine.
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Nation Red, an arena-based shooter against zombies is now available on Linux, rated highly

By Liam Dawe,
7
I've been looking forward to giving Nation Red a go, as it is a few years old but still highly rated by a lot of people. You fight off a zombie hoard while earning tons of perks.
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A new benchmark video shows Dota 2 with Vulkan performing better on Windows than Linux

By Liam Dawe,
71
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.
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Defender's Quest Deluxe launched, a free upgrade for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

By Liam Dawe,
5
Defender's Quest Deluxe is a brand new upgraded version of the RPG/Tower Defence game Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten that brings lots of new goodies.
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We Happy Few, an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city will hit Linux in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
16
This is awesome news. We Happy Few a fantastic looking action/adventure game is due to get a Linux version during Early Access.
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Join me at 10AM UTC tomorrow the 15th of June as I battle with Feral Interactive live on Twitch again

By Liam Dawe,
1
Another week, another battle. Tomorrow at 10AM UTC I will be battle against/with (depending on who is around) Matt from Feral Interactive in Company of Heroes 2.
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Day of Infamy, the WWII mod for Insurgency is being turned into a full game

By Liam Dawe,
9
Day of Infamy the popular WWII mod for Insurgency is being turned into a full source engine powered game by itself.
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A developer from Dontnod Entertainment has created a UE4 hack to compile HLSL shaders on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
15
For those of you using Unreal Engine 4 on Linux, you may be interested to know about the d3d4linux project. The d3d4linux project allows developers to compile HLSL shaders on Linux using the Microsoft DirectX compiler DLL.
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Heroes of Loot 2, an arcade style dungeon crawler released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
1
I'm going to be honest, I was not a fan of the original Heroes of Loot as I foundnd it too repetitive, bland and easy. Heroes of Loot 2 thankfully has improved pretty much everything.
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Moonlighter, an Action RPG with shopkeeping elements is fully funded on Kickstarter and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1
Always nice to see games that promise Linux support get fully funded. Moonlighter is an Action RPG with shopkeeping elements and it has been over-funded.
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Dungeon Defenders developers Trendy need help updating the Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
19
Dungeon Defenders has been out of date on Linux for a long time and the developers need a Linux developer to help get it updated.
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Armory 3D, a new game engine for Blender that will be open source

By Liam Dawe,
2
Armory 3D promises to make Blender become much more powerful for game developers and it certainly looks interesting.
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MAV, a custom mech combat game will come to Linux, looks great

By Liam Dawe,
11
I love vehicle combat games, especially when it's some form of mech unit. MAV looks interesting and it's coming to Linux.
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Platformer On Rusty Trails released on Steam for Linux, some thoughts

By flesk,
3
On Rusty Trails is the new game from the developers of Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers and About Love, Hate & the other ones, Black Pants Game Studio.
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Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines

By Liam Dawe,
31
According to PCWorld who spoke with Chris Sutphen, the senior marketing manager at Alienware, Dell are pushing out two new Steam Machine models.
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Ballistic Overkill adds Linux support, a pretty good looking online class-based FPS

By Liam Dawe,
13
Ballistic Overkill, an online class-based FPS recently released Linux support, but it was another we totally missed. I picked up a copy and took a look.
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Want to play Morrowind natively on Linux using OpenMW? Well it's on sale on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
16
OpenMW is the open source game engine for Morrowind that is really quite amazing. If you've been wanting to try it out but you don't own Morrowind, now is a good time. GOG has it on sale for cheap.
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Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR

By Liam Dawe,
10
The HDK2 from Razer will use their OSVR ecosystem - an open source ecosystem supporting multiple types of hardware brands.
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