Owlboy, is now available for Linux and it has completely won me over, it's also on sale
Owlboy, the popular 2D adventure game from D-Pad Studio is now officially available on Linux. I gave it a run-down to see if it's worthy of your bucks.
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Act fast to get Payday 2 plus some DLC for $1 from Humble Bundle's 72 hour bundle
For those that don't own it, Humble Bundle are doing a 72 hour bundle where you can grab Payday 2 plus DLC for $1.
Civilization VI has entered final testing for Linux, could release soon, should be on sale too
It has been pointed out in our Telegram chat group (thanks Kithop) that Aspyr Media have said on Steam that Civilization VI has entered final testing for Linux.
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 released for Linux, adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 is now officially available for AMD GPU owners and it adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0.
Jonathan Blow states he is open to a Linux port of The Witness with Vulkan, but never with OpenGL
For those of you interested in seeing The Witness on Linux, it seems Jonathan Blow mentioned it again recently in a livestream in response to a viewer question. It's hard to argue with what he's saying.
Shadow of Mordor patch released for Linux, fixes issue with NVIDIA cards and more
The patch we have been waiting on for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is finally live and fixes a major graphical bug on NVIDIA drivers.
Iron Sky: Invasion, the Wine-port from Topware Interactive is out of Beta and on sale
The Linux Wine-port of Iron Sky: Invasion is now officially out of beta and it's on sale with 80% off for another few days.
Dead Cells, a roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer looks amazing and heading to Linux
Dead Cells, a 2D roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer was emailed in by Sintineddu and wow, the art in this one is fantastic.
Puzzle Puppers, a really cute puzzle game could come to Linux with enough support
The developers of Puzzle Puppers have stated that a Linux version will be bumped up the list if there is real interest.
Wine Staging 2.0 available, also new on the state of Vulkan, DX11 and more
The Wine Staging team has release their 2.0 release and they have also written up a blog post detailing work on Vulkan, DX11 and more. Seems a number of DX11 games now work!
A note about security after a possible security issue was discovered
Tonight my family time was interrupted by notifications that a possible security issue had been discovered in our code. This is a full disclosure to let you know what happened.
Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate now available
In addition to Mesa 17 getting a new release candidate, we also today have a Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate which should be released on Friday.
Mesa 17-rc2 released, stable version still expected next month
Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.
Portal 2 has been patched to fix broken textures
For quite some time Portal 2 had broken textures on Linux and Windows. I reported the issue to Valve in April 2016 and they have now finally fixed it.
Timothee Besset is working on fixing the long 'hangs' Mesa users get in Rocket League
Game porter Timothee Besset, who did the Rocket League port, has posted on the bug report about Rocket League freezing up a lot on Mesa to note that he has started working on the issue.
Avorion, a procedural co-op space sandbox is now on Linux and it looks awesome
Avorion promises to give you a big open galaxy to explore fight, trade and construct spaceships in. They claim to remove a lot of micro-management which has me excited and it looks really slick.
Ballistic Overkill major update released, new huge map and private servers
Ballistic Overkill, my favourite online FPS right now has a new update and it's quite a biggy. It includes a big new map and other goodies.
Wine 2.0 is now officially available
I just got the announce email from the Wine team that Wine 2.0 is now officially available. It's an absolutely massive release!
Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)
This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.
Virtual Programming are porting Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers to Linux
It seems another porting company is starting to work on more and more Linux ports and the year has only just begun! Virtual Programming are working on Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers in addition to the already announced Putty Squad.
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