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FRIDAY ARRIVES! And so does the Friday Livestream, as you might expect. It seems to be the season for games exiting Early Access so I'm practically drowning in stuff. And stuff will be played. And you have a chance to look at stuff being played! So, there. Come watch my stream. Please.

Sunless Skies, the in-development title from Failbetter Games that serves as the successor to Sunless Sea should see day-1 Linux support.

I learned about West of Loathing recently from Twitter and it seems like it could be a pretty amusing game, it release with Linux support on the 10th of August.

I will be honest, I think when Overload is finished it might end up being the absolute best six-degree-of-freedom shooter on Linux. Let's take a look at the latest update!

The open source game engine Godot has added support for glTF 2.0, the open standard from Khronos. It's a royalty-free specification for the transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by applications.

The next Wine development release is here with Wine 2.14, it's quite a quiet one but here's what's new.

Blade Symphony, a fighting game involving some fancy swordplay looks like it will come to Linux along with their free to play update.

With thanks to Kalypso Media, I have early access to the new strategy game Sudden Strike 4. Here's a quick look at how it runs, a full review will come at release.

The beautiful hand-drawn platformer has gotten a rather sizable update today. Those intrepid explorers intent on discovering the secrets of Hallownest can look forward to new challenges and encounters.

This puzzle-platformer challenges players with rotating levels full of hazards. I gave the game a spin and have a few thoughts to share.

Paradox has announced the next DLC for Stellaris named 'Synthetic Dawn' and it promises lots of goodies.

Another bit of lovely DRM free GOG news for you! GOG just added the Linux version of the rather splendid and destruction-heavy Brigador: Up-Armored Edition.

Dust: An Elysian Tail released for Linux a few years ago and now GOG finally have the Linux version available too.

Here's a bit of positivity for you today! According to the statistics gathered by the netmarketshare website, in July the percentage of people using Linux on the desktop hit an all time high.

Serious Sam Fusion is Croteam's Vulkan-powered game engine that covers many Serious Sam games and it seems they have some plans.

Epic Games have done a talk at SIGGRAPH 2017 and it turns out they're looking to make Vulkan the default API for exported Linux games.

The Groups system on Steam has been left to rot a little, but Valve have finally decided to update it. This also removes the ability for spammers to spam group invites out, something I complained about only recently.

For those of you enjoying Cossacks 3 you might be pleased to know another DLC is on the way! Cossacks 3: The Golden Age is planning to release on August 24th.

Tacoma, the sci-fi narrative adventure from the developer of Gone Home has officially launched. It includes day-1 Linux support so I took a look.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but here’s part 5 in the series of me talking to developers about how their games have been selling on Linux.