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The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons

By Liam Squires-Hand,
13
Mesa 17, the next stable release of the open source graphics drivers on Linux has been a bit delayed, due to so much last minute work going on. Looks like Intel Ivy Bridge will get OpenGL 4.0.
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Owlboy, the very popular 2D adventure game is seeking Linux testers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
Heads up action and adventure fans, as Owlboy is coming to Linux soon using FNA and they require some testers.
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Mini Thief, an interesting 2D game about robbing increasingly difficult houses

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
I’ve been testing out ‘Mini Thief’, a 2D game about robbing people and hopefully not getting caught. The question is as always: is it worth your bucks?
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'Rise & Shine' a game where every level is a single, continuous work of art could come to Linux (updated!)

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
Well, Rise & Shine has certainly hooked me in with its rather awesome visuals and slick looking action! The developers have said they are investigating and testing Linux support. UPDATED.
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Exploring a floating island in 'Pocket Kingdom', a very well done throwback to Amiga games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
GOL follower hardpenguin sent over a copy of 'Pocket Kingdom' for me to take a look at, and as a fan of the Amiga I had to give it a go.
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Farting on everyone in 'CropDuster Supreme' now available on Linux, it's actually hilarious

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
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.
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The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs

By Liam Squires-Hand,
15
A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.
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Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
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.
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Building on up in Block'hood, my early thoughts on this cute neighbourhood-building sim

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
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.
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Phoning Home, the story of two robots trying to survive will come to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Phoning Home, which sounded a lot like the film WALL-E when I first heard about it will come to Linux.
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Wine Staging 2.0-rc5 released, better support for Origin, GOG Galaxy and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
10
Wine Staging have released their 2.0-rc5 release which sounds like a pretty interesting release. Plenty of new stuff to play with.
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Evolvation, an Unreal Engine online space shooter is now on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
4
I've given Evolvation for a little spin, but right now it's still in development and it has issues to be aware of.
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Rise to Ruins (previously Retro-Pixel Castles) has a major content update now out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
The new official name 'Rise to Ruins' along with a big update to my favourite little village builder is now live.
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Looks like FPS game 'Squad' might be coming to Linux soon

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
Squad, the FPS game from Offworld Industries is showing signs that it might be coming over to Linux.
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Linux market-share on Steam dropped 0.08% in December 2016

By Liam Squires-Hand,
58
Something I forgot to write up, was that the latest Steam survey is out. Linux dropped by 0.08% according to the figures.
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Streets of Rogue development build updated with NAT punch-through and automatic port forwarding

By Liam Squires-Hand,
0
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.
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Wine 2.0-rc5 release, moving towards a final stable version

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
Wine 2.0 has a fifth release candidate to fix up more bugs to make Wine 2.0 truly as stable as possible.
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Small site update, new directory page for people with Twitch and Youtube channels

By Liam Squires-Hand,
14
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.
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SteamVR support for Linux looks like it's getting close

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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Thanks to a Twitter tip we have word that it looks as if SteamVR support for Linux might finally be close.
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Early Access survival game 'Rust' gains Vulkan support in a pre-release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
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.
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