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Join me tonight at 8:30PM UTC for some Linux gaming fun on Twitch

By Liam Squires-Hand,
5
As Samsai is away on secret business, I will be taking control of the Friday livestream today and probably next week too. I will be livestreaming Saturday as well, so double the Liam fun!
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Yooka-Laylee has revealed multiplayer in a new trailer

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
If you weren't already sold on Yooka-Laylee, this new multiplayer trailer might just sell you on it and it looks fantastic.
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The open source Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD on Linux has patches for geometry shader support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.
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Total War: WARHAMMER makes Grombrindal the White Dwarf Legendary Lord available to all players

By BTRE,
1
Originally available to anyone who went to a physical Games Workshop store, this Legendary Lord has now been made available for free on Steam if you own the game.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera shows off some more gameplay mechanics in new trailers

By BTRE,
8
The upcoming RPG by inXile Entertainment is looking good. There’s a pair of new trailers that show off more of the game systems and offer a preview of what we can expect once the game is out.
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Bear With Me: Episode Two releasing February 15th, bringing more noir adventure

By BTRE,
0
The next installment in the noir point and click adventure will be arriving soon. This humor-laced adventure will throw more of everything at the player, including more crime bosses and allies.
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SteamOS updated with some major new drivers and an updated Debian base

By Liam Squires-Hand,
22
SteamOS isn't being left out in the cold like some would believe, as it too today got a big update with new shiny stuff.
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Major Stable Steam client update, Xbox controller config support, vastly improved Linux client

By Liam Squires-Hand,
16
This is the big one. Steam have released a major update of the Steam client which not only adds in some big new features, it also drastically improves the Linux client.
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Nearly five years after the Kickstarter, Carmageddon still isn’t on Linux despite the stretch goal being reached

By Liam Squires-Hand,
35
In May it will be five years since the Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter. Linux support was a stretch goal they reached and we still have nothing to show for it.
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Imperium Galactica II: Alliances released for Linux & SteamOS, seems native too

By Liam Squires-Hand,
11
Imperium Galactica II: Alliances just released for Linux & SteamOS and it looks like it's a native version.
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Long War 2 now available for XCOM 2 for free, but not for Linux yet

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
Long War 2 is the massive overhaul mod for XCOM 2 from the same people who did the original Long War for the previous XCOM game.
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Check out this video about porting games to Linux from our contributor Cheeseness

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
Our contributor Cheeseness went to 'linux.conf.au' and did a talk on porting games to Linux, it's worth a watch.
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Mesa 17-rc1 released, it's a massive update for open source graphics

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
Mesa 17 (formerly Mesa 13.1) has it's first Release Candidate and it's a pretty big release for users of open source graphic drivers.
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Fumiko! A single-player, story-driven abstract platformer developed on Linux releases next month

By Liam Squires-Hand,
1
Fumiko! A new single-player, story-driven game that has been developed with Unity and Linux is coming out next month. It looks absolutely bizarre, but in a good way.
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Site update: Content bookmarking system now live

By Liam Squires-Hand,
15
Thanks to a Patreon supporter request, we now have a nifty new feature for you to use. You can now bookmark Articles, Comments, Forum Topics & Replies.
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Some thoughts on switching from Ubuntu to Antergos for Linux gaming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
136
I did it, I jumped ship from Ubuntu to Antergos and I honestly can’t see myself going back. Here’s some thoughts on that.
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Stellaris 1.5 will allow you to accept refugees, but it has upset some people

By Liam Squires-Hand,
40
Stellaris, the massive grand strategy game from Paradox is going through another update cycle and one little feature of the upcoming patch is the ability to accept refugees, but some people aren't happy about it.
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NVIDIA 378.09 beta driver released, adds OpenGL threaded optimizations by default and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
10
A pretty interesting NVIDIA beta driver has landed and it officially enables their OpenGL threaded optimizations by default.
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Minecraft's new launcher is now available on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
12
That's right, post-Microsoft purchase Minecraft is still seeing great support for Linux. Their shiny new launcher is now available.
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'Factorio' is another game that was being hit by key scammers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
22
In another case of scammers trying to buy keys with often stolen credit cards to sell on websites like G2A, the developers of 'Factorio' have written about their experience with it.
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