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DXVK 1.4.5 released bringing further performance improvements for D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK continues maturing with another exciting sounding release now available with DXVK 1.4.5, bringing in some performance improvements and plenty of bug fixes.

The sad case of Trine on Mesa and Linux in 2019

By Hamish,
Lacklustre Linux sales and internal restructuring appear to have taken Frozenbyte out of the Linux market for good, and with even their old games struggling to run well on the Mesa graphics stack, it marks a sad end to a series that once provided so much colour to our platform.

Google Stadia is out now for early adopters, well a few anyway

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the Google Stadia streaming service officially launched for those who picked up the Founder or Premier Edition.

Path of Exile continues down the Vulkan path, with a possible port to Linux mentioned

By Liam Dawe,
We've known for a while that the massive and popular RPG Path of Exile was going to get a Vulkan API implementation and they would have liked to do Linux support, seems like they're continuing that line of thinking.

Time to play some classic Command & Conquer as OpenRA has a huge fresh stable release out

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the free and open source game engine to bring classic Command & Conquer titles like Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Dune 2000 and eventually Tiberian Sun to modern systems has a big new release up.

Open-ended village life sim Village Monsters set in a forgotten game world enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Village Monsters, the open-ended village life game set in a forgotten video game world has entered Early Access with Linux support.

SamRewritten is an open source Steam Achievements Manager for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Want an easy way to view, lock and unlock Steam Achievements on Linux? SamRewritten seems like a very handy application to do all of that and more.

The fantastic co-op space sandbox Avorion should now be easier to get going

By Liam Dawe,
Avorion already had a lot of things truly nailed down, from the freedom to build and explore to the excellent presentation but one thing it lacked was a good experience for newer users. Now it should be much improved.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's mission system in Operation Shattered Web is pretty good

By Liam Dawe,
I will admit, after dropping an update last night with a big new Operation for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive I was a little sceptical with the Battle Pass system. However, it's surprisingly good.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive releases the huge Operation Shattered Web update

By Liam Dawe,
Not content with just announcing Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title, Valve also updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with a big new operation called Shattered Web.

Confessing my continued love for Jupiter Hell, the super slick roguelike

By Liam Dawe,
Regular readers won't be surprised by my love for Jupiter Hell, I've written about it a few times now and the latest update just continues to allow me to gush about it.

Start your week off with a new game, here's a few for Linux going cheap

By Liam Dawe,
Another week, another sale of course. Let's have a little look over what's going cheap for Linux gamers across this week.

The surprisingly good deck-builder Fate Hunters has arrived on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing originally back in July, Fate Hunters is another deck-building roguelike filled with random encounters and just recently it was released DRM-free on GOG.

Free indie RTS game The Fertile Crescent adds team game support for online play

By Liam Dawe,
While you've been able to play 1 on 1 in single-player against the AI and online multi-player for a while with The Fertile Crescent, it was missing team games which have now been added.

Valve has now confirmed Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have now officially confirmed that Half-Life is back with their flagship VR title named Half-Life: Alyx.

Stellaris is getting some big changes to empire customization and creation with Origins

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio are mixing things up in Stellaris again with the upcoming update and the Federations expansion.

Relaxing flying sim with a morphing bird 'Fugl' has a nice big update

By Liam Dawe,
Moving you away from the blood, the bullets and whatever else all these actions games have with Fugl, a relaxing sim about flying around and appreciating life.

Google have now expanded the launch titles for Stadia up to 22

By Liam Dawe,
Launching tomorrow for people who picked up the Founder and Premier editions, Stadia was originally only going to launch with 12 titles. Now this has expanded to 22!

Factorio is leaving Early Access in September next year

By Liam Dawe,
As a result of the team behind Factorio feeling like it's going on for too long, they've now set a proper release date.

Dicey Dungeons outsold Terry Cavanagh's last two Steam games in the first month

By Liam Dawe,
Terry Cavanagh, the indie developer behind VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and the latest Dicey Dungeons has a new blog post out talking about how well Dicey Dungeons has done and what's to come next.