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The aim of the game in 'CropDuster Supreme' is to fart on people, now you may think this sounds terrible — but it's actually quite amusing! I know, I'm shocked too.

A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.

In another push towards Mesa finishing OpenGL for all vendors where possible, Intel Haswell chips now have support for OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa on Linux.

Block'hood is a neighbourhood-building sim that's currently in Early Access. I couldn't resist grabbing a copy when it released for Linux, so here's some early thoughts.

Phoning Home, which sounded a lot like the film WALL-E when I first heard about it will come to Linux.

Wine Staging have released their 2.0-rc5 release which sounds like a pretty interesting release. Plenty of new stuff to play with.

I've given Evolvation for a little spin, but right now it's still in development and it has issues to be aware of.

The new official name 'Rise to Ruins' along with a big update to my favourite little village builder is now live.

Squad, the FPS game from Offworld Industries is showing signs that it might be coming over to Linux.

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.