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Total War: WARHAMMER Linux specifications announced for the release tomorrow, Mesa supported for AMD

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2016

Total War: WARHAMMER comes to Linux tomorrow and it’s good news for AMD GPU users as Mesa will be officially supported on normal Linux distributions, but not on SteamOS.

Steam's Autumn sale to begin soon, date also leaked for the Winter sale

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2016

Keep your wallets close, as the next major Steam sale will be happening soon. As usual, someone has leaked the dates.

Ghostlords, a turn-based RPG about capturing ghosts set in a ruined Great Britain

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2016

Well this game certainly came out of nowhere, Ghostlords is a turn-based RPG set in a ruined Great Britain where you capture ghosts. Being a brit myself, I had to try it.

Fiery Disaster, a simple Tower Defence game now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2016

I love Tower Defence games, so I'm always will to give a new one a go. Fiery Disaster mixes the genre up a bit, as you don't actually place any towers.

The itch app has a new major version, still as slick as ever

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2016

If you're a fan of the games store itch like me, you may want to know about the latest update to their open source client.

Ultimate General: Civil War, the tactical war-game will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2016

The developers of the tactical war-game Ultimate General: Civil War have stated that there will be a Linux version.

Alien: Isolation – The Collection is currently rather cheap on the official Feral store

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2016

If you still haven't picked up Alien: Isolation, now is a good time. Feral Interactive have the game on sale on their official store. Alien: Isolation – The Collection includes all the DLC too, so it's a pretty good deal.

Unity bugs are holding back 'Syndrome' from coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2016

Syndrome, a good-looking sci-fi survival horror was supposed to come to Linux at release, but it seems Unity is holding it back with bugs.

Nvidia 375.20 stable driver released, increases OpenGL shader cache size and more

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

The latest Nvidia driver 375.20 is now available. The interesting change is that it increases the OpenGL shader cache size, which may help with games like Deus Ex Mankind Divided on Linux.

Join me tonight for the usual Friday Linux gaming livestream at 8PM UTC

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

It's Friday! Friday, Friday FRIDAY. That means it's time to play games with the community and chat away.

Livestream

Some early thoughts on ‘CrossCode’, an Early Access 2D action RPG set in the distant future

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

I’ve held off on ‘CrossCode’ for quite a while, as it looked so promising I wanted to give it time to mature before taking a look. This Early Access retro-inspired action RPG is quite something now.

The Vulkan API spec has been updated again, now at its 34th revision since release

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

Is Vulkan going to be the saviour of Linux gaming? I have no idea, but the spec is being updated regularly to solve all sorts of issues. It's now on it's 34th revision since release.

Vulkan

Feral Interactive are requesting that Canonical get Mesa updates into an official PPA

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

With Mesa coming along rather nicely in the latest releases, Feral Interactive are requesting that Canonical push out Mesa updates to their official graphics driver PPA to help Feral officially support Mesa in their Linux ports.

A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

SC Controller is really awesome! It's a standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller. It was pointed out to me that it has a new gestures feature and I was asked to do a video. Here's a quick look at this fun new feature.