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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.

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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?

Ignition, another classic game re-released on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Thanks to GOG and DOSBox, Linux gamers can enjoy the classic crazy racing game Ignition, which originally released in 1997.

Lars Doucet, a game developer, is asking Valve to open source the Steam Controller software

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

Lars Doucet, developer of Defender's Quest has written up a reddit post requesting Valve to open source the Steam Controller software.

Last day to submit games to our Linux GOTY awards

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2017

I decided to extend the submission time for our GOTY awards by one day just to give it a bit more exposure to gather a good list.

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Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2017

Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.

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Chronicon, a good looking 2D action RPG should come to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2017

The developer of Chronicon has stated that a Linux build will be worked on and should be available in a few months.

Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2017

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It’s been a bit of a ride, but we now have it confirmed for sure that Civilization VI is coming to Linux, and the release isn’t far off. We are able to confirm this with permission before the official announcement from Aspyr Media that is due later today.

Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2017

Mesa has another patch that will be interesting for Linux gamers. This is actually a two-part fix as it was re-worked. The Witcher 2 should have a lot less black flickering with this latest patch.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown should now work properly with radeonsi

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2017

If you had tried playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown (not to be confused with XCOM 2) on radeonsi and had it crash constantly, the good news is that this should now be fixed as of Mesa 13.0.3.

X-Blades now has a Linux beta powered by Wine

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2017

As promised, Topware Interactive have released a Linux beta of X-Blades on Steam that uses Wine to make it easy for you.

Avenger Bird, retro inspired side-scroller is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2017

Avenger Bird, a pretty nice looking retro inspired side-scroller is now available on Steam with Linux support.

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Steam hits over 14 million concurrent users online

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2017

Steam has officially hit a new high for concurrent users online, with over 14 million people being online today.

Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2017

Divinity: Original Sin is one game that the open source Mesa drivers currently cannot run without hacks, but it looks like the Mesa team has been testing it.

Multiple statistics have shown Linux market-share doing better than ever

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2017

Good news for Linux fans, as multiple big websites showing off statistics have shown Linux is on the rise!

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Join me tonight at 8:30PM UTC for some Portal 2 live

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2017

Tonight for your amusement I shall be attempting to play some Portal 2 live on Twitch. I hate Samsai for making me do this.

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If you act fast you can grab a key for the demo of Disgaea 2 and it runs on Linux already

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2017

A GOL follower sent word that Alienware are giving out limited keys to a Disgaea 2 demo test. The good news is I got one and it seems the demo already runs on Linux.

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