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The Wine Development Release 1.9.21 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.21 has many small changes including 18 bugfixes.

Join me for a livestream tonight at 19:45 UTC

By Liam Dawe,
It's Friday livestream night and tonight you can join in. I will be live around 19:45 UTC playing Dawn of War II Retribution and Firewatch!

Testing out 'Star Vikings', a casual puzzle RPG now out in full and available on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Star Vikings from Rogue Snail is a casual puzzle RPG where it plays a little like a reverse plants vs zombies. It feels very much like a casual mobile game.

Manipulate the ground and fights robots in 'Cloudbase Prime' now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Cloudbase Prime is a charming Early Access game about fighting robots and manipulating hexagonal platforms the levels are built with.

Shallow Space open-world beta now on Linux, bringing it to Linux helped overall performance

By Liam Dawe,
Here's something fun, Shallow Space has been re-working to be an open-world space game and the beta is now on Linux. The developer said getting it working on Linux helped overall performance.

Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux after all, was a miscommunication

By Liam Dawe,
Put the pitchforks down and stop flipping tables, as it seems Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux.

HTC Vive VR demo on Linux used Kubuntu at SteamDevDays

By Liam Dawe,
Here's something awesome to see, the Valve demo of the HTC Vive on Linux was using Kubuntu, and we have some pictures.

Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition removed from stores in favour of the new Anniversary World Tour, no Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
For fans of oldschool Duke Nukem on Linux, sadly you're now out of luck. Gearbox took over the rights to Duke Nukem and Devolver's deal for Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition has ended, so essentially Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition is no more.

'Can't Drive This' is a racing game where your friends build the track as you drive

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of 'Can't Drive This' just sent word that their crazy-fun looking racer is now on Linux. This Early Access game has your friends building the track as your drive, amusing.

Tyranny, the new RPG from Obsidian, gets a release date and will have day-1 Linux support [Updated]

By BTRE,
Fans of good ol’ RPG adventures rejoice, you’ll be able to experience the world where evil won on November 10th. Paradox and Obsidian have put out a new trailer showing off more of the game.

Colony building sim 'Maia' has a big update, taking another look

By Liam Dawe,
'Maia' is an Early Access colony building sim that has always shown promise, but the problem is that it has been quite buggy. This new release has polished the game up quite a bit.

Small update to the PC info system today, you can now get a 'forum signature image'

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by a feature request in our forums, and because it was interesting to implement, you can now use a 'signature image' of your pc details and username.

Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21

By Liam Dawe,
It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.

Transport Fever confirmed for day-1 Linux release on November 8th, plus gameplay video

By Liam Dawe,
Transport Fever is really starting to look great, and the best news is that Linux is confirmed to be a day-1 release. We also have a new gameplay video.

Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.

Mesa has now hit full OpenGL 4.4 support for AMD radeonsi and Intel

By Liam Dawe,
As of today Mesa now has full OpenGL 4.4 support (with 4.5 already done) for both AMD radeonsi and Intel (i965/gen8+). Mesa won't actually expose any higher than OpenGL 4.3 until Mesa (well, someone) pays up for the Conformance Tests.

Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver

By Liam Dawe,
The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.

Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.

Through the Woods no longer coming to Linux due to platform-specific technology

By Liam Dawe,
This is really annoying. 'Through the Woods', a very promising psychological horror is no longer coming to Linux and was only announced two weeks before release due to platform-specific technology.

Steam to get a massive update soon, Asia revenue increased nearly 500% since 2014 and more

By Liam Dawe,
More information courtesy of all the developers at SteamDevDays. Steam will apparently be getting a massive update/refresh soon and the amount of games releasing on Steam has been increasing by a lot.