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It’s no secret that Paradox Interactive has been on the forefront of Linux gaming as both a publisher and developer of games. However, it’s still exciting to see screenshots of Linux on official development posts, especially when the contents of the posts themselves are pretty interesting.

Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan looks and sounds like it might be a pretty fun game, and the developers have confirmed a Linux version is currently in-progress.

The brand new Linux-native RuneScape client "NXT" can now be downloaded to have it ready for the big release on the 18th. It does have issues though.

The awesome open source Morrowind game engine has released 0.39.0, bringing a lot of fixes and a few bigger features.

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.8 has many small changes including 26 bugfixes.

Valve just recently published a new Steam beta, and they have fixed up the Steam Overlay rendering issue that was causing it to bring down Vulkan performance. I've run some fresh tests on my Nvidia 980ti to show you the difference now with it on vs before.

Today I thought it would be fun to show you what myself and Samsai have setup for our desks and gaming setups, and see what yours are too.

Stellaris, the soon to be released space strategy from Paradox is now available to pre-order and it also has a new trailer.

The blessed Friday has arrived and along with it comes the Friday Livestream, the livestream that showcases neither skill nor professionalism but people seem to watch it anyway. Today we have a couple of new games so strap yourself in and point your browser to the Twitch channel!

Well, not long after someone reported the issue to Valve from my benchmarks, the performance penalty of using Vulkan with the Steam Overlay seems to be mostly fixed.

The newest game in the Heavy Gear series built with Unreal Engine 4 is heading to Linux, the developers shared two images of the game running on Linux. Quite exciting, as it looks pretty good.

With the Saints Row 2 report out of the way and performing terribly, I have also taken some time to look at Saints Row: The Third.

Now that I've had a chance to play some Saints Row 2 on Linux, here are some thoughts on the performance.

Virtual Programming have released their latest Linux ports, and today we are graced with the crazy Saints Row 2 & Saints Row: The Third. They are also now on sale.

It's always good to get things reconfirmed near the main release. Dambuster has confirmed Linux gamers haven't been forgotten about for Homefront: The Revolution.

The very cool stealth game from Frozenbyte now has a release window, they developer have said it will release in May and they told me that Linux should be day-1!

Slime Rancher is probably one of the cutest games I've played in recent memory, I adore those little slimes. The developer has just released The Indigo Quarry Update, and it's big.

I decided to take a look at this Vulkan nonsense with The Talos Principle, since I hadn't actually tried it yet myself. Here are some benchmarks done on my 980ti. I will look to do some on my 970 if people want to see them too.

Is it raining, but you have that need to play some mini golf? Well, Golf With Friends has just landed on Linux.

Broken Dreams is a simple, yet beautiful looking 2D casual platformer. It has full voice acting as well as nice looking hand drawn environments.