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Coming into my inbox a few minutes ago (Thunderbird is handy for RSS feeds!), Unreal Tournament has been updated again and Epic seem to have made it slightly easier to access the Linux version now.

Digital Tribe have teamed up with Oddly Shaped Pixels to publish Super Rocket Shootout, a new 2D pixelart brawler and it will have Linux support.

After a lengthy beta period, STASIS the fantastic and gruesome looking point & click horror game is now officially available on Linux.

Entroware, the UK-based Linux hardware vendor have released two newer laptops and one of them could be a reasonable gaming unit.

The Wine Staging team has put out their 2.11 release and it comes with some interesting fixes. They've done some adjustments to help run GTA 5 and The Witcher 3.

Overload is fantastic, if you don't agree with me you're basically insane. Okay, a little extreme but you get the idea. It's been updated again so let's take a look.

Yooka-Laylee has been patched and it's actually a pretty decent patch. It sounds like they've really listened to feedback.

The atmosphere over here is so thick with excitement you could cut it with a knife, I really am looking forward to XCOM 2: War of the Chosen! Take a look at a new revealed for The Reaper.

A Mesa developer has put out a set of 42 patches to help improve Dawn of War III performance on Linux using Mesa. It focuses on the use of KHR_no_error to save some more CPU time.

World of One is a cleverly designed and rather creepy puzzle platformer that you should consider taking a look at.

Introversion Software, creators of Prison Architect, Darwinia and plenty more have added experimental Linux support to Scanner Sombre, their latest title.

On Friday, Micro Machines World Series will officially launch with day-1 Linux support as now confirmed by Codemasters.

Engage excitement number one! Feral Interactive are teasing a brand new Linux port on their little port teaser radar.

The Crowded Party Game Collection, a game where you and up to 10 friends can take on 7 arcade-inspired mini games. The key thing here, is that you can use an iOS, Android or Windows phone device as a gamepad.

Leaving Lyndow, the short, but impressive adventure game has officially removed Linux support on Steam due to the amount of bug reports.

Maia, the space colony sim currently in Early Access has another big update with new features, quality of life fixes and bug fixes.

It seems the OpenGL threaded dispatch code to speed up some games in Mesa now uses a whitelist, with a few games now able to make use of it.

The Witcher 2 & Rocket League now have some fixes available in Mesa-git ready for Mesa 17.2 that should give you a better experience.

I must say that at the very beginning I thought the concept of the game was going to be extremely simple and boring, but by the tenth level it not only proved me wrong, but also I was completely hooked with it (no pun intended). There are free levels on Kongregate if you want to give them a try!

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