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Jack Orlando: Director's Cut, an adventure game published by Topware is the latest game of theirs to get a Wine-port on Steam.

Valve have put out a small Dota 2 update that aims to improve performance on the new Ryzen processors from AMD.

I am a massive fan of 'Avorion' as this Early Access space sandbox has a lot going for it and it just got a major update. I am also considering setting up a GOL server for it!

Serious Sam Fusion 2017 the massive update from Croteam is now available for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter.

I was sent a link to Eitr, as it's an action RPG with some really fantastic art and fun looking combat. I think you will like the look of this too and it's due for release sometime this year.

RadialApps, with blessing from the original developer, has ported over all of the Aveyond 2D RPG titles to Linux.

Overload is another new six-degree-of-freedom shooter on Steam. It's currently in Early Access, but even so it's already very impressive.

I've spent some time playing the strategy game 'Codex of Victory' now it's fully released and it's quite surprising.

A Mesa developer wrote up a blog post about the conformance of the open source Mesa Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD.

A developer of Star Citizen has commented on their forum to state that the game will go with Vulkan and eventually drop DirectX.

The Kerbal Space Program developers Squad have announced a big expansion named 'Making History' and it sounds rather splendid.

Croteam are being awesome as usual, as Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter should get the Fusion update that includes Linux and Vulkan support early next week on Monday or Tuesday.

Sumoman is confirmed to be coming to Linux and after watching the trailer I'm officially sold on it. We do have a great variety of platformers, but the physics at play here looks hilarious.

Wine 2.4 has been officially released and the developers are still plugging away at their Direct3D command stream work to improve Wine performance.

World to the West is a colourful and cartoony action adventure game that's a standalone followup to the indie hit Teslagrad. It will release on May 5th and will include Linux support.

Grab your gloves and your lockpick as the next elusive target is live for HITMAN, this time you're attempting to take out The Bookkeeper.

Friday arrives and brings us yet another chance to show our incompetence when it comes to gaming! Yes, the Friday Livestream is here once more to bring you live Linux gaming and the commentary that goes with it, so get your snacks and tune your Internet connection!

Hard West is a hard game to recommend to anyone unwilling to subject themselves to a trial by fire. If it were a horse I would say that it tried to buck me at every possible opportunity. It almost succeeded too.

It's fun when this happens, I poked the developer of Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles about the Linux version and they replied saying it was coming and now in the same day they've put it up!

I've spent a bit of time flailing about in VThree, a new Early Access run and jump game based on speed-running to the end of a level. It's fun, but difficult.