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The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 17, the next stable release of the open source graphics drivers on Linux has been a bit delayed, due to so much last minute work going on. Looks like Intel Ivy Bridge will get OpenGL 4.0.

Owlboy, the very popular 2D adventure game is seeking Linux testers

By Liam Dawe,
Heads up action and adventure fans, as Owlboy is coming to Linux soon using FNA and they require some testers.

Mini Thief, an interesting 2D game about robbing increasingly difficult houses

By Liam Dawe,
I’ve been testing out ‘Mini Thief’, a 2D game about robbing people and hopefully not getting caught. The question is as always: is it worth your bucks?

'Rise & Shine' a game where every level is a single, continuous work of art could come to Linux (updated!)

By Liam Dawe,
Well, Rise & Shine has certainly hooked me in with its rather awesome visuals and slick looking action! The developers have said they are investigating and testing Linux support. UPDATED.

Exploring a floating island in 'Pocket Kingdom', a very well done throwback to Amiga games

By Liam Dawe,
GOL follower hardpenguin sent over a copy of 'Pocket Kingdom' for me to take a look at, and as a fan of the Amiga I had to give it a go.

Farting on everyone in 'CropDuster Supreme' now available on Linux, it's actually hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
The aim of the game in 'CropDuster Supreme' is to fart on people, now you may think this sounds terrible — but it's actually quite amusing! I know, I'm shocked too.

The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.

Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
In another push towards Mesa finishing OpenGL for all vendors where possible, Intel Haswell chips now have support for OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa on Linux.

Building on up in Block'hood, my early thoughts on this cute neighbourhood-building sim

By Liam Dawe,
Block'hood is a neighbourhood-building sim that's currently in Early Access. I couldn't resist grabbing a copy when it released for Linux, so here's some early thoughts.

Phoning Home, the story of two robots trying to survive will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Phoning Home, which sounded a lot like the film WALL-E when I first heard about it will come to Linux.

Wine Staging 2.0-rc5 released, better support for Origin, GOG Galaxy and more

By Liam Dawe,
Wine Staging have released their 2.0-rc5 release which sounds like a pretty interesting release. Plenty of new stuff to play with.

Evolvation, an Unreal Engine online space shooter is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've given Evolvation for a little spin, but right now it's still in development and it has issues to be aware of.

Rise to Ruins (previously Retro-Pixel Castles) has a major content update now out

By Liam Dawe,
The new official name 'Rise to Ruins' along with a big update to my favourite little village builder is now live.

Looks like FPS game 'Squad' might be coming to Linux soon

By Liam Dawe,
Squad, the FPS game from Offworld Industries is showing signs that it might be coming over to Linux.

Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016

By Liam Dawe,
Something I forgot to write up, was that the latest Steam survey is out. Linux dropped by 0.08% according to the figures.

Streets of Rogue development build updated with NAT punch-through and automatic port forwarding

By Liam Dawe,
Streets of Rogue, the rather excellent open-world roguelike has been updated again. Two major new features for the online mode are NAT punch-through and automatic port forwarding to make connections easier.

Wine 2.0-rc5 release, moving towards a final stable version

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 2.0 has a fifth release candidate to fix up more bugs to make Wine 2.0 truly as stable as possible.

Small site update, new directory page for people with Twitch and Youtube channels

By Liam Dawe,
I have done a small update tonight and wrote up a new page for the site. This new page will display a list of people who have set their Twitch or Youtube address in their profile. It will also tell you if someone is live on Twitch.

SteamVR support for Linux looks like it's getting close

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to a Twitter tip we have word that it looks as if SteamVR support for Linux might finally be close.

Early Access survival game 'Rust' gains Vulkan support in a pre-release

By Liam Dawe,
Rust, from Facepunch Studios is another game to add to the list that use Vulkan, although it's only on the pre-release version right now.