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The Linux Wine-port of Iron Sky: Invasion is now officially out of beta and it's on sale with 80% off for another few days.

Dead Cells, a 2D roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer was emailed in by Sintineddu and wow, the art in this one is fantastic.

The developers of Puzzle Puppers have stated that a Linux version will be bumped up the list if there is real interest.

The Wine Staging team has release their 2.0 release and they have also written up a blog post detailing work on Vulkan, DX11 and more. Seems a number of DX11 games now work!

Tonight my family time was interrupted by notifications that a possible security issue had been discovered in our code. This is a full disclosure to let you know what happened.

In addition to Mesa 17 getting a new release candidate, we also today have a Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate which should be released on Friday.

Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.

For quite some time Portal 2 had broken textures on Linux and Windows. I reported the issue to Valve in April 2016 and they have now finally fixed it.

Game porter Timothee Besset, who did the Rocket League port, has posted on the bug report about Rocket League freezing up a lot on Mesa to note that he has started working on the issue.

Avorion promises to give you a big open galaxy to explore fight, trade and construct spaceships in. They claim to remove a lot of micro-management which has me excited and it looks really slick.

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Ballistic Overkill, my favourite online FPS right now has a new update and it's quite a biggy. It includes a big new map and other goodies.

I just got the announce email from the Wine team that Wine 2.0 is now officially available. It's an absolutely massive release!

This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.

It seems another porting company is starting to work on more and more Linux ports and the year has only just begun! Virtual Programming are working on Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers in addition to the already announced Putty Squad.

Homefront: The Revolution for Linux was announced with Linux support in 2014 and to this day we still can't get any clear communication on the port.

RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a fantastic top down army shooter and it has a major update featuring new weapons, vehicles and more.

Mesa 12.0.6 has released and it brings with it a bunch of bug fixes. While the latest stable version is Mesa 13.0.3, those sticking with the older Mesa 12 will still like their fixes.

Marek Olšák sent in another patch to Mesa that is now in Mesa-git which should hopefully be a better fix for black transitions in The Witcher 2 on radeonsi (AMD).

It must be a bit chilly in hell today, as Microsoft have announced a new DirectX Shader Compiler and it's open source.