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Overload, the excellent Early Access six-degree-of-freedom shooter updated again recently, looking amazing

By Liam Dawe,
12
Few developers are able to pull off a Descent-like six-degree-of-freedom shooter, but the Overload team easily have the most promising available.
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Ballistic Overkill has an opt-in beta with performance fixes (update: now out of beta)

By Liam Dawe,
4
Ballistic Overkill, the fun and cheap online FPS that recently added Vulkan support now has an opt-in beta for you to try. The developers say it's aimed at improving performance. UPDATE: It's now out of Beta.
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Heavy Gear Assault has gone through a UI revamp in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
3
Heavy Gear Assault has just had a major upgrading include a rework of the UI, which was quite badly needed.
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The developers of 'Colony Survival' are looking for Linux testers of their voxel RTS

By Liam Dawe,
2
Colony Survival is a new voxel RTS coming to Linux sometime this summer and the developers are asking for Linux testers.
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Steam Greenlight is officially closed, Steam Direct to open the flood gates on June 13th

By Liam Dawe,
11
Brace yourself, games are coming. Steam Greenlight has been officially closed as of today and Valve has announced Steam Direct will launch on June 13th.
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Hearts of Iron IV gets a free DLC to celebrate a year since release

By BTRE,
8
Paradox Development Studios have decided to mark the occasion by giving all owners of the World War 2 grand strategy game a few free goodies.
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GOG Connect adds more games, plus a huge summer sale now on

By Liam Dawe,
34
GOG have updated GOG Connect again allowing some more titles to be redeemed on GOG if you have them on Steam, they also have a huge summer sale now on.
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Victor Vran: Overkill Edition has launched with two new packed expansions

By Liam Dawe,
6
Victor Vran: Overkill Edition has officially released expanding the ARPG in many ways, the two new expansions Mötorhead Through The Ages and Fractured Worlds can be purchased as DLC if you already own the base game.
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StarCrawlers, a gritty spacepunk dungeon crawler has released and it's looking good

By Liam Dawe,
5
StarCrawlers is a game I covered quite some time ago back in March of 2015, years later it's now released in full. It's a fresh take on the 3D dungeon crawlers set in a spacepunk themed universe.
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The big SteamOS update that drops AMDGPU-PRO in favour of Mesa has left beta

By Liam Dawe,
19
The big SteamOS beta update that Valve shipped last month has now officially been released into the stable updates branch.
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By Liam Dawe,
26
As always, GamingOnLinux is entirely funded by the users for the users and hopefully we can stay online for a long time.
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StarFlint, is a comedy point & click adventure game not to be missed on Kickstarter, has a Linux demo

By Liam Dawe,
10
StarFlint is a new comedy point and click adventure in the style of old Lucas Arts titles, it's on Kickstarter and it actually has a Linux demo to check out.
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Mesa has a big patch set in the Mesa-dev list to improve Dawn of War III performance, also Mesa 17.1.2 released

By Liam Dawe,
2
With the big Dawn of War III release getting closer, one Mesa developer has put some serious effort into getting Mesa ready to game on.
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LandTraveller, a 2D mix of an action RPG and a sandbox with single-player and online play is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
6
LandTraveller was pointed out to me today and I must say I am intrigued by it. It's a colourful 2D action RPG with sandbox elements and it even has online play.
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klocki is a beautiful casual puzzle game that recently released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
4
In the mood for a more relaxing game? Well klocki might be what you need for those Monday blues. It's a simple puzzle game about fitting shapes together.
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Riptale, a challenging 2D roguelike with plenty of blood arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
3
Riptale, a black & white challenging 2D roguelike that lights up with blood has officially released for Linux. It had a beta release last month which seems to have gone well, since it released on June 1st.
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GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin drops D3D12 in favour of Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
19
The awesome GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has officially dropped support for the D3D12 API in favour of going all-in with Vulkan.
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ASCII Twin-stick shooter 'Gemstone Keeper' is coming to Linux, developer blogs about the porting process

By Liam Dawe,
1
Gemstone Keeper, an ASCII twin-stick shooter that looks surprisingly decent is coming to Linux. The developer has been blogging about porting the game to Linux for those interested in reading more about it.
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Brawlerz Nitro, a top-down car combat game that I would gladly show my friends is on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
6
I've been testing out Brawlerz Nitro, a new Early Access top-down car combat game and it's really quite fun already.
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The Ashes of the Singularity Linux request topic has more requests than the game has reviews

By Liam Dawe,
17
In an impressive show of support, the post from the Stardock CEO asking for Ashes of the Singularity Linux version requests has more posts than reviews on Steam.
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