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Something I forgot to write up, was that the latest Steam survey is out. Linux dropped by 0.08% according to the figures.

Streets of Rogue, the rather excellent open-world roguelike has been updated again. Two major new features for the online mode are NAT punch-through and automatic port forwarding to make connections easier.

Wine 2.0 has a fifth release candidate to fix up more bugs to make Wine 2.0 truly as stable as possible.

I have done a small update tonight and wrote up a new page for the site. This new page will display a list of people who have set their Twitch or Youtube address in their profile. It will also tell you if someone is live on Twitch.

Thanks to a Twitter tip we have word that it looks as if SteamVR support for Linux might finally be close.

Rust, from Facepunch Studios is another game to add to the list that use Vulkan, although it's only on the pre-release version right now.

If I may have your attention for a few moments, I would like to inform you that today is Friday and that there's a livestream to go with it. So, hammer your routers into shape and point the antennas towards our broadcast of live Linux gaming!

If you are using Mesa (FOSS OpenGL/Vulkan drivers on Linux), you can be in situation when it introduces some new features upstream, but it didn't make it into your distro yet and it can take quite a long time for that to happen. A guide to compiling it yourself.

Sleeper games announce "Hyperspace Dogfights", a fast-paced aerial rogue-like action game. Set in the same story universe as their upcoming "Hyperspace Admirals" game, Dogfights is aiming for a Linux beta early this year.

Go grab DiRT Showdown for free and check out some other cheap games in the Humble Store winter sale.

Worms W.M.D has a new major patch out that allows Linux gamers to play with anyone cross Windows, Mac and Linux.

Samuel Pitoiset (Valve developer) just put some fresh work into Mesa-git that enables OpenGL 4.3 with nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has updated to include some free content for all owners of the game, which is a nice gesture from the developer and publisher.

For fans of the awesome itch games website, the client has been updated once again with a number of bug fixes.

Mesa is continuing to progress rapidly, as of today Haswell should now support OpenGL 4.2 ready for the next release of Mesa.

Stellaris is going to get a bit more feature-heavy with the next updated and DLC going by Paradox latest updates. They have detailed 'Tradition trees' which will be free and 'Ascension Perks' which will be in the next DLC.

I don't cover too many crowdfunding projects, but Pixel Princess Blitz does look pretty entertaining. It also features full Linux support with no stretch goal.

The upcoming RPG and spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment should be seeing a simultaneous release across all platforms.

That's it folks, it's time to get voting! The Linux GOTY award is now officially open for votes. You get one vote per category.

Andres Rodriguez sent in a message to the mesa-dev mailing list announcing 'gputool' for debugging AMD graphics cards on Linux. It's also open source under the GPL, so that's awesome.