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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.

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.12 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

Ah, I do love me some Fridays and, as per usual, we celebrate this great weekday with another video stream of a live nature. Games will be played, bad jokes be made and fun might be had. Just in case that happens, you better strap yourself in and fire up your video player.

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

If you have passed up on Wasteland 2: Director's Cut before you may want to take a look now, as it's having a free weekend on Steam.

If you're in the market to pick up something for the weekend, be sure not to miss out on the excellent XCOM 2. It's currently 33% off for the weekend on Steam, cracking deal that is!

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.

Torment: Tides of Numenera the next CRPG from inXile entertainment has been delayed until 2017 and they have also partnered with a publisher.

Yooka-Laylee, from the "key creative talent" behind Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country has a new trailer. The release has also been delayed until 2017.

I really do love open source game engines. Keeping older titles alive on new platforms and bringing bug fixes with them. This time Dungeon Keeper II gets the treatment.

While Khronos already put up the actual slides from Vulkan DevDay UK we didn't have any audio or video, now we do. Much nicer than reading slides by themselves.

Valve have announced that they will be running another Steam Dev Days event this October in Seattle, USA.

This is one series I had hoped we would get and it looks like we will be. HITMAN (the new 2016 version) looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux.

It may have taken me all evening to do, but that's an evening well spent. The Sales Page will now be importing sales from Steam.

Minecraft is still going at a slow pace. Minecraft 1.10 has just been released which includes new blocks and mobs.

The cutesy artillery game has added Linux support in its ongoing beta test. Development apparently still has a ways to go which makes this early support extra nice.

Fans of shooting stuff up with mechs will have to wait to play this action game on Linux. The developer has explained why this Early Access game isn’t yet ready for penguin enjoyment.

Star Vikings is a new casual puzzle/RPG title from the developers who gave us Chroma Squad. It actually looks pretty slick from the trailer.

Blacksea Odyssey is a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot'em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. I've played it myself a number of times and I think it's quality fun.

It's official, now it's summer. We have the GOG summer sale that has officially begun and masses of games are discounted.