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Unity 5.6 to release March 31st with 'out of the box support for Vulkan'

By Liam Dawe,
More news from GDC, Unity have announced that on March 31st, Unity 5.6 will release and it will have 'out of the box support for Vulkan'.

LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
During GDC at the AMD event, a LiquidSky employee stated that their gaming client that streams games to you will have a Linux client.

Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me

By Liam Dawe,
So I've been doing a Half-Life 2: Update play-through during my recent livestreams and Samsai decided to grab some 'best bits' to utterly roast me good. Come watch.

Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit DLC announced, adding more transport possibilities

By Liam Dawe,
Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit is a new content rich DLC that will add in quite a few new transport options.

The RPG 'Eschalon: Book I' is now completely free, to celebrate being 10 years old

By Liam Dawe,
I had to rub my eyes a bit at this, Eschalon: Book I is officially 10 years old! It is also now completely free to download and play.

River City Ransom: Underground has released with day-1 Linux support as promised

By Liam Dawe,
The beat 'em up River City Ransom: Underground has officially launched with the promised day-1 Linux support. So far it seems the reviews are positive.

Looks like Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' may be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Awesome news to start the day, not only is Torment now available, but it seems like Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' may be heading to Linux.

Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support

By Liam Dawe,
Torment: Tides of Numenera, the big new RPG from inXile Entertainment has released with day-1 Linux support. My review will be delayed as they had no Linux version available for me, even after giving me a press key.

Beat Cop adventure game release date announced as March 30th, day-1 Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Beat Cop is a new adventure game from 11bit studios and Pixel Crow and it will arrive on March 30th with day-1 Linux support.

LG are making a VR headset, to be shown off at Valve's GDC booth

By Liam Dawe,
And we have another VR HMD contender in the rings folks. LG have announced they will be showing off their own VR HMD at GDC with Valve.

Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet

By Liam Dawe,
Shadow of War has been officially announced as a sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Hopefully Feral Interactive will grab the porting rights again here, as Shadow of Mordor was fantastic.

Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality

By Liam Dawe,
OpenXR is the official name of the Khronos Group's new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality. Hopefully we will see Valve and other companies move towards this instead of their own implementations.

Paradox announce 'Stellaris: Utopia', the first proper expansion for Stellaris, out April 6th

By Liam Dawe,
Stellaris: Utopia sounds really, really good. It adds plenty of content that might just get me to pick up the game again.

Pictopix, a very clever logic puzzle game involving counting squares

By Liam Dawe,
I'm never very good with logic games like this, especially when I need to manually count stuff, but Pictopix is very clever.

Heavy Gear Assault update adds in bots

By Liam Dawe,
Heavy Gear Assault just got a little less lonely, as bots can now populate servers to keep games going. This was needed, as the online play is sadly pretty empty right now.

Vulkan API 1.0.42 released, new NVIDIA beta drivers released to go with it

By Liam Dawe,
Vulkan 1.0.42 seems like a much bigger release than usual, NVIDIA have also release their 375.27.12 beta Vulkan driver to fit in the new extensions from this Vulkan release.

Heroes of Arca, a turn-based strategy and RPG released for Linux, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Heroes of Arca was emailed in by the developer, an somewhat interesting looking turn-based strategy with RPG elements that claims to have an 'unorthodox combat system'.

Narita Boy, an absolutely incredible looking 2D scroller with RPG elements is on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
I am always hesistant to write about crowdfunding games, but Narita Boy looks like something truly special. The trailer sure does look amazing.

Some thoughts on Realpolitiks, a real-time grand strategy game now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Realpolitiks is a new real-time (with pausing) grand strategy game from Jujubee S.A. and I was sent a key to be able to take a look.

Streets of Rogue has a Steam release date set, plus recent updates have improved online play

By Liam Dawe,
Streets of Rogue is a fantastic idea, to have the combat feeling of games like Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon and others, while having a more open-world approach to the action roguelike genre.
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