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A Valve developer has released a tool to debug AMD graphics cards on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2017

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.

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

My original guide on how to help fix screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU is a bit dated, so here’s an even easier way.

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Verdun, the WWI FPS has added the Scottish in a free update

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

The Verdun developers have continued their work to add to the interesting WWI FPS and today the Scottish folk make their entry into the game.

Inexor, a fully open source fork of the FPS game Sauerbraten

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

It seems some developers got fed-up with some assets of the FPS game Sauerbraten being restricted, so they have forked it into the Inexor project.

Lugaru campaign now fully playable in Overgrowth, Lugaru HD now fully open source including the data

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

Two interesting bits of news for you! First up, Wolfire Games have updated Overgrowth with another alpha build and the Lugaru campaign is now finished. On top of that, Wolfire has made the data files for Lugaru HD fully open now too.

Be sure to join the big 'BeatFeral' game event in Company of Heroes 2 tonight

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

Tonight at 6:30PM UTC, Feral Interactive are hosting a big 'BeatFeral' event online in Company of Heroes 2.

Have you tried Switchcars? A roguelike arcade game set in a broken spacetime

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

Switchcars is a game I've been putting off trying for quite some time to wait for it to get polished up some more, but now I've jumped in at the deep end of this arcade style roguelike.

Gearend, a cute 2D non-linear exploration game built on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

I was sent in Gearend by a reader, as it not only looks like a pretty good 2D exploration game, but it's also developed on Linux.

Discord announce their Linux client is now officially supported and out of beta

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2017

Discord, the insanely popular chat and VOIP client primarily aimed at gamers is now officially supported on Linux and out of beta.

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Observer, a new horror from the 'Layers of Fear' developer and publisher Aspyr Media announced

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Observer, a brand new horror from the developers of 'Layers of Fear' has been announced. It's being published by Aspyr Media once again and I have it confirmed it will be on Linux.

Ballistic Overkill, possibly my current favourite online FPS updated, available in more countries now too

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Ballistic Overkill, the really fun and dirt cheap online FPS is now available in more countries! On top of that, they worked on some more optimization.

NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.

Clean up after a dungeon master and discover secrets in 'Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week'

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

The developer of Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week emailed in to let us know about their game and it has a rather unusual setting.

Project Zomboid updated yet again, trading now possible with other players

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Project Zomboid has another release pushed to the stable branch of this in-development Zombie survival game. One of the major new features is the ability to trade with other players when playing online.

Some thoughts on Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the real-time tactics game

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a top-down stealth game from Mimimi Productions released with day-1 Linux support. I have fond memories of games like Commandos, so is it any good?