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GOG adds a bunch of NEO GEO classics, some have Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have just added 15 NEO GEO classic titles and some of them have Linux support, here's a run-down for you.

The slides for the Vulkan presentations from Feral Interactive, Croteam and more are now up

By Liam Dawe,
Recently Feral Interactive, Croteam and others spoke at an event in the UK about Vulkan. The slides are now available, but the videos aren't up yet.

Pyre from Supergiant Games is coming to Linux, should be a day-1 release

By Liam Dawe,
Pyre, the next game from Transistor developer Supergiant Games is coming to Linux! The port is being done by Ethan Lee and it should see a day-1 Linux release.

The weekly GamingOnLinux versus Feral Interactive events will return with Dawn of War III

By Liam Dawe,
Something I hinted at recently was that the weekly GamingOnLinux versus Feral Interactive weekly events would return. I am pleased to confirm they will with Dawn of War III!

Wine Staging 2.9 released with improved support for anti-cheat and DRM

By Liam Dawe,
Sounds like this Wine Staging release is a very interesting one, as it comes with improved support for anti-cheat and DRM.

Taking a trip through Hell in 'Pinstripe', an adventure game not to be missed

By Liam Dawe,
Pinstripe is an adventure game that sees you venturing through Hell to rescue your daughter. It was created by one man and it's damn impressive.

Control a defective spaceship in space survival game 'Deep Sixed' now on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Sixed is a space survival game where you're given control of a defective spaceship with a mission to explore a large nebula, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it turns out.

Slime-san, an incredibly fast-paced platformer that takes place inside a worm

By Liam Dawe,
A bit overdue, but today I checked out Slime-san, an incredibly fast-paced platformer with a unique visual style. Can you escape the worm?

Questioning my life choices playing 'Grab the Bottle'

By Liam Dawe,
Grab the Bottle from developer Kamina Dimension is a really weird snake-like game about some weird mutant person with an extending arm.

Shadow of Mordor on AMD Ryzen CPU suffers from a performance hit due to non-optimal thread scheduling

By ghem,
While doing some comparative benchmarks between my RX 470 and GTX 1060 on a Ryzen 1700 CPU and an i7-2700k CPU, I encountered odd behaviour with Shadow of Mordor.

Stardock CEO asking to see interest in Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation on Linux with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation will come to Linux if Stardock see enough requests for it. The CEO of Stardock has requested to see how much interest there is.

Darkest Dungeon’s expansion, The Crimson Court, set to release June 19th

By BTRE,
The very brutal and fun dungeon crawler will get its first expansion quite soon. Thematically about vampires and their damned ilk, there will be plenty of new content and enemies that can tear you to pieces.

BlindQuest, an interactive audio novel, is looking for votes for Steam Greenlight

By BTRE,
Setting itself apart from the majority of visual novels by focusing on the player’s sense of hearing, BlindQuest: The Prison will also be coming to Linux if greenlit. There’s a short concept demo available too.

Bounty Train, a game about the Wild West and trains, is set to come to Linux

By BTRE,
With detailed equipment and management aspects, Bounty Train also has plenty of thrills and chaotic fighting. It’s being ported to Linux and should be coming out sometime soon.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
We seem to have made it through another week, for today is Friday! You now have a once in a week (Shovel Knight streams do not count) chance of watching me play video games and throw around silly sentences for your amusement!

Feral announce that Dawn of War III will use both OpenGL and Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive have just announced some exciting news! The Linux port of Dawn of War III will come with OpenGL as the default, but like with Mad Max you will be able to check a box to enable Vulkan!

Hyper Knights, the Medieval mix of strategy and action is now fully released, multiplayer is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Hyper Knights is one of those titles I previously picked up thinking nothing of it, but it turned out to be a very fun experience.

SteamVR updated with experimental Linux support for SteamVR Home

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have pushed out another update to SteamVR, this time Linux has been given experimental support for SteamVR Home.

Wine 2.9 released with support for Direct3D tessellation shaders

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 2.9 is now officially available and it's a very interesting one. Fantastic work from the Wine developers.

Planet Nomads officially lands into Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Planet Nomads, the rather fancy looking sandbox survival game has now officially launched into Early Access and it's looking pretty good.