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STASIS, the point & click horror game is now officially available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a lengthy beta period, STASIS the fantastic and gruesome looking point & click horror game is now officially available on Linux.

The new Entroware Hybris could make a reasonable Linux gaming laptop

By Liam Dawe,
Entroware, the UK-based Linux hardware vendor have released two newer laptops and one of them could be a reasonable gaming unit.

Wine Staging 2.11 released with GTA 5 and The Witcher 3 fixes, also improved Unity game support

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine Staging team has put out their 2.11 release and it comes with some interesting fixes. They've done some adjustments to help run GTA 5 and The Witcher 3.

The six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' has another great content update

By Liam Dawe,
Overload is fantastic, if you don't agree with me you're basically insane. Okay, a little extreme but you get the idea. It's been updated again so let's take a look.

A big Yooka-Laylee patch helps some of the annoyances I had

By Liam Dawe,
Yooka-Laylee has been patched and it's actually a pretty decent patch. It sounds like they've really listened to feedback.

Take a look at 'The Reaper' from the XCOM 2: War of the Chosen expansion coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
The atmosphere over here is so thick with excitement you could cut it with a knife, I really am looking forward to XCOM 2: War of the Chosen! Take a look at a new revealed for The Reaper.

More optimizations on the way for Dawn of War III in Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
A Mesa developer has put out a set of 42 patches to help improve Dawn of War III performance on Linux using Mesa. It focuses on the use of KHR_no_error to save some more CPU time.

A look at 'World of One', the creepy world-travelling puzzle platformer now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
World of One is a cleverly designed and rather creepy puzzle platformer that you should consider taking a look at.

Scanner Sombre from Introversion Software adds experimental Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Introversion Software, creators of Prison Architect, Darwinia and plenty more have added experimental Linux support to Scanner Sombre, their latest title.

Micro Machines World Series will be a day-1 Linux release this Friday

By Liam Dawe,
On Friday, Micro Machines World Series will officially launch with day-1 Linux support as now confirmed by Codemasters.

Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port, bring on the speculation

By Liam Dawe,
Engage excitement number one! Feral Interactive are teasing a brand new Linux port on their little port teaser radar.

Use your phone as a gamepad in The Crowded Party Game Collection, sadly broken right now

By Liam Dawe,
The Crowded Party Game Collection, a game where you and up to 10 friends can take on 7 arcade-inspired mini games. The key thing here, is that you can use an iOS, Android or Windows phone device as a gamepad.

Leaving Lyndow removes Linux support from Steam due to masses of bug reports

By Liam Dawe,
Leaving Lyndow, the short, but impressive adventure game has officially removed Linux support on Steam due to the amount of bug reports.

Space colony sim 'Maia' updated with lots of new goodies, screw the damn lava

By Liam Dawe,
Maia, the space colony sim currently in Early Access has another big update with new features, quality of life fixes and bug fixes.

The Mesa OpenGL threaded dispatch code seems to now use a whitelist, improving some games performance

By Liam Dawe,
It seems the OpenGL threaded dispatch code to speed up some games in Mesa now uses a whitelist, with a few games now able to make use of it.

The Witcher 2 & Rocket League have fixes ready in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe,
The Witcher 2 & Rocket League now have some fixes available in Mesa-git ready for Mesa 17.2 that should give you a better experience.

'HOOK' is an extremely minimalistic but addictive puzzler that I wholeheartedly recommend

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
I must say that at the very beginning I thought the concept of the game was going to be extremely simple and boring, but by the tenth level it not only proved me wrong, but also I was completely hooked with it (no pun intended). There are free levels on Kongregate if you want to give them a try!

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Check out the developer commentary on Observer, the new horror title published by Aspyr Media

By Liam Dawe,
Observer is a new cyberpunk horror from Bloober Team and Aspyr Media. The developers put out a video to show off some gameplay along with their commentary and it looks amazing.

Paradigm, probably the strangest game I've ever played is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Paradigm is, and I don't say this lightly, possibly the strangest adventure game I think I've ever played. It starts weird, then it gets weirder and it doesn't let up.