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Take a look at 'The Reaper' from the XCOM 2: War of the Chosen expansion coming soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

More optimizations on the way for Dawn of War III in Mesa

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

A look at 'World of One', the creepy world-travelling puzzle platformer now on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
World of One is a cleverly designed and rather creepy puzzle platformer that you should consider taking a look at.

Scanner Sombre from Introversion Software adds experimental Linux support

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

Micro Machines World Series will be a day-1 Linux release this Friday

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

Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port, bring on the speculation

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Engage excitement number one! Feral Interactive are teasing a brand new Linux port on their little port teaser radar.

Use your phone as a gamepad in The Crowded Party Game Collection, sadly broken right now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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 removes Linux support from Steam due to masses of bug reports

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

Space colony sim 'Maia' updated with lots of new goodies, screw the damn lava

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

The Mesa OpenGL threaded dispatch code seems to now use a whitelist, improving some games performance

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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 have fixes ready in Mesa-git

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

'HOOK' is an extremely minimalistic but addictive puzzler that I wholeheartedly recommend

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
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!

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.

Check out the developer commentary on Observer, the new horror title published by Aspyr Media

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Observer is a new cyberpunk horror from Bloober Team and Aspyr Media. The developers put out a video to show off some gameplay along with their commentary and it looks amazing.

Paradigm, probably the strangest game I've ever played is now on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Paradigm is, and I don't say this lightly, possibly the strangest adventure game I think I've ever played. It starts weird, then it gets weirder and it doesn't let up.

Ashes of the Singularity looking at Vulkan in August, paves the way for Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Ashes of the Singularity is aiming to have Vulkan support in August, which paves the way for Linux support in future.

Wine 2.11 released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Wine 2.11 development release is now officially available with more Android work and other fixes.

Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available on the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I think a lot of people were waiting on this one. Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available in the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan!

Friday livestream, come join the community games at 20:00 UTC tonight

By Liam Squires-Hand,
First of all, apologies for last night I really wasn't feeling all that well. Tonight we are back in action! At 20:00 UTC we will be playing games online with the community.

Distance, the futuristic survival racer has a big update, 50% off in the Steam sale

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Distance is a fantastic survival racer with some seriously slick visuals, it's addictive and it's had a fresh coat of paint.