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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

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This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Operator Overload is due out this week promising 'complex combinatoric conundrums'

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Operator Overload, a puzzle game I briefly wrote about back in June last year is finally getting a release this week.

Unbalance, a very minimalist puzzle game that's super cheap and quite good is on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Unbalance is a minimalist puzzle game about spinning things around to drop a red ball onto something, it's actually quite clever.

Digging for riches and falling onto spikes in SteamWorld Dig 2, now available for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If you're a fan of the first game, you're going to love this. If you missed the first one, you're still going to love SteamWorld Dig 2.

Rise to Ruins updated with an overhauled combat system along with bows and arrows

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The village building god game Rise to Ruins has expanded once again. This latest development release 'InDev 28 Unstable 3' overhauls the combat system. Ranged attacks are now possible!

Rusted Warfare, the sweet 2D RTS has a new major release with tons of goodies

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you love RTS games? Rusted Warfare is one you seriously need to look at. This sweet 2D RTS works great on Linux and just had a huge update.

Linux version of 'The Coma: Recut' removed at release after taking pre-orders

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sadly it seems the Linux version of The Coma: Recut vanished at release, even after taking pre-orders.

SDL 2.0.6 released, introduces Vulkan support

By BTRE,
The cross-platform development library has seen the release of its latest version. Quite a few exciting changes this time around, including support for Vulkan and more types of gamepads.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Woo! It's Friday again and that means it's time to warm up the CPU cores and prime the GPU for some Friday Livestream action! Once again you have a chance to watch the glorious victories and salt-filled failures of yours truly live on the Internet!

Wine Staging 2.17 is out with more Direct3D11 features fixing issues in The Witcher 3, Overwatch and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Wine Staging 2.17 is another exciting release, which includes more Direct3D11 features which fixes issues with The Witcher 3, Overwatch and more.

Half-Life: C.A.G.E.D. from former Valve worker should hopefully come to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Half-Life: C.A.G.E.D. is a mod from former Valve worker Cayle George, it's a short prison escape and it should be coming to Linux.

Auto Age: Standoff, a colourful car combat game may come to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Auto Age: Standoff looks like a rather vibrant car combat game and it could see a Linux release with enough support from the community.

There's a trailer for the Albion Online 'Joseph' update, plus more Arena Mode information

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Albion Online is going to get a bit bigger next week, with the release of the Joseph expansion. We have a new trailer and more info!

xoEl Empire, a puzzle game that's just utterly weird is on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A little overdue, but I took a look at xoEl Empire as the developer sent in a copy. This puzzle game is just completely weird.

Outlast Deluxe Edition is currently free on the Humble Store

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Still don't own Outlast? Outlast Deluxe Edition is currently going for nothing on the Humble Store and it supports Linux.

RUINER is reconfirmed for Linux once again

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After the stupidly confusing mixed messages about the Linux version of RUINER, the developer has now reconfirmed that its coming to Linux.

Organics sighted, marking for destruction - Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn released along with a free patch

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to play Stellaris as a robotic civilization? Your time is now! Rise up and overthrow those pesky organics and lead your synthetics to conquer the galaxy.

GPUVis, an open source Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It seems Valve have been busy. GPUVis is a Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView on Windows. It's supposed to help track down Linux gpu and application performance issues.

There's so many Linux games on sale right now, it's a good time if you're skint

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Suffering from a lack of funds and games? The good news is that there's a lot of games on sale. The bad news? You're going to be even more skint.

The Journey Down: Chapter Three has officially launched to conclude the series

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Journey Down: Chapter Three, a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe finally has the last episode released today with same-day Linux support.