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Threaded OpenGL in Mesa will not help Feral's Linux ports and probably others too

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

Just a note to not get overly excited about threaded OpenGL in Mesa. While it's true it could help a bunch of games, there's also games it likely won't help or even make worse. Feral Interactive's ports already do it, and I'm sure others do too.

HITMAN for Linux officially announced, port by Feral Interactive and arriving this month

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

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Feral Interactive have officially announced their next Linux port and it's going to be 'HITMAN'. Another awesome game for our platform.

Block’hood, the upwards focused neighbourhood-building simulator is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

If you have been missing out on another building game, never fear, GOG is near! Block’hood is now available on GOG.

Hearthlands, the cute city builder has a final release and it's great

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

Hearthlands is a game I've been following for a long time and now this city builder has finally released.

The Linux port of Banished is still alive, the developer plans their next game to launch cross-platform on day-1

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2017

It seems the Linux port of Banished isn't dead, far from it in fact. The developer just so happens to be working on other stuff at the same time.

Looks like Killing Floor 2 may be coming to Linux from Knockout Games

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

More possible good news today. It seems Knockout Games might be doing the porting work of Killing Floor 2 for Linux.

DiRT Rally system requirements revealed ahead of the Linux release next month, NVIDIA & AMD supported

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Feral Interactive have released the specifications required to run DiRT Rally that will release on March 2nd for Linux.

Early Exclusive: Civilization VI to release February 9th for Linux with a discount, NVIDIA only for now

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Civilization VI is being ported to Linux by Aspyr Media and I’m seriously excited for the release. I’m able to confirm a little early for you that it will release on February 9th.

The Battlefield-like single player FPS 'Ravenfield' will have a paid version; a Steam Greenlight page is now live

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 6 Feb 2017

Shortly after reaching the milestone of one million downloads on December 12th, 2016, the single developer of Ravenfield announced that a paid version of the game is being prepared, and right now a Steam Greenlight page is already up.

Mesa developer Marek is looking to finally sort out threaded GL dispatch

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Marek, the Mesa developer from AMD posted a message to the public Mesa-dev mailing list asking to merge the threaded GL dispatch code and get it cleaned up to help with the high CPU overhead of Mesa.

Albion Online gives more details on the 'Expeditions' PvE mode

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Albion Online will introduce some beefed-up PvE content in the upcoming update. One such feature are the revamped 'Expeditions'.

Super Pilot, a cool futuristic racing game could get a Linux version

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

If you like your fast-paced futuristic racers, you may want to know that Super Pilot could gain a Linux version with enough support.

You can now find our game servers on a single page

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

Just to make it a little easier, we now have a dedicated page for our game servers to help you find them.

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Ellipsis, an action-packed Avoid ’Em Up is now on Linux, it's rather good

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2017

The developer of Ellipsis sent in a key for us to check out what they call an Avoid ’Em Up and it's surprisingly good.

We now have an official Ballistic Overkill server

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2017

Joining the ranks today is a new official GOL game server for Ballistic Overkill, my favourite indie FPS right now.

Join me tonight at 20:30 UTC for the Sunday livestream

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2017

Tonight at 8:30 UTC more Twitch fun begins with another livestream. A day later than I normally do due to the recent 'The Council of Linux Gamers' video I was in.

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Come watch the first episode of 'The Council of Linux Gamers'

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2017

The Council of Linux Gamers is a new livestreamed chat show full of Linux gaming personalities. This first episodes features me, Jakejw93, Xpander, Osirez & HexDSL.